La chambre claire

Brice Sailly, La chambre claire, Emmanuelle De Negri – François Couperin: Les muses naissantes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:49 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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This reverie offered by Brice Sailly in homage to François Couperin is presented in the guise of a trip to Arcadia, that utopian land which lies hidden in the heart of European geography. The selected harpsichord pieces, most of them evoking childhood and the birth of love, sit beside excerpts from the Concerts royaux that set the scene rather as Watteau might have done, leaving to the less well-known airs de cour the task of describing sentiments in words. Couperin discreetly whispers the most luminous of truths. Here all is benevolence, a smile on the lips, a light heart, and melancholy is gently dismissed in favour of consolation.
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