Couperin Rules!
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Francois Couperin, the greatest composer of the mid-Baroque in France and a favorite of the "Sun King" himself, Couperin composed for and played in many a royal Sunday court concert.
We hear the “Concert Royal” No. 3 in A this evening, performed on original instruments by several members of the Kuijken family who are joined by a few like-minded enthusiasts of the authentic-performance movement.
Robert Bernhard conducts the double-bassist Gary Karr and the Louisville Orchestra in a performance of Paul Ramsier’s “Divertimento concertante on a Theme of Couperin,” a work made up of “six compact variations of subtlety, humor, and finesse,” as critic Roger Dettmer described it. The theme is taken from a Couperin harpsichord piece called “La Bandoline.”
We hear the “Concert Royal” No. 3 in A this evening, performed on original instruments by several members of the Kuijken family who are joined by a few like-minded enthusiasts of the authentic-performance movement.
Robert Bernhard conducts the double-bassist Gary Karr and the Louisville Orchestra in a performance of Paul Ramsier’s “Divertimento concertante on a Theme of Couperin,” a work made up of “six compact variations of subtlety, humor, and finesse,” as critic Roger Dettmer described it. The theme is taken from a Couperin harpsichord piece called “La Bandoline.”
