Fernando De Luca - Foucquet: Pièces de clavecin (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet / MP3 320 kbps | 2:37:12 | 974 / 360 Mb
Genre: Classical
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet / MP3 320 kbps | 2:37:12 | 974 / 360 Mb
Genre: Classical
First recordings of the complete surviving keyboard works by a forgotten figure of the French Baroque.Brilliant Classics has revived the names of many composers from obscure corners of history. Few of them have been as buried by the past as Pierre-Claude Foucquet, who was active in Paris in the first half of the 18th century. Yet anyone listening to this first complete recording of his music for harpsichord will surely wonder why. Three volumes survive: two books of Pièces de Clavecin, and a third entitled Caractères de la Paix. This was the first to be published in 1749. By then Foucquet had been organist at the magnificent Church of Saint-Eustache for some years, and he would go on to take up the post of titulaire at Notre Dame. He was following in a distinguished family line, his father and grandfather both having been organists at Saint-Eustache.
