Having first made her name as a harpsichord player and a singer, Elisabeth Jacquet was a part of the court around Louis XIV from the time she was a child. She was groomed by his mistress and later married a Parisian organist but continued to appear at court and dedicate her compositions to the Sun King, who received them with unstinting praise. ...
Here is a package that satisfies intellectual curiosity and is musically delightful. This two-disc set begins with a precise, but still musical, harpsichord performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations by Céline Frisch. Her Aria is clean, with both the melody and the bass line countermelody clear and phrased so that everything comes together well. ...
These French chansons are of a special kind: as the other part of the subtitle, Le Pape musulman (The Muslim Pope) suggests, they're satirical pieces, and of the slash-and-burn sort at that. Except in a few unspecified cases, the composer listed, Pierre Jean de Béranger, did not write the music but instead fitted his poetry to existing operatic ...
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