Francois Couperin, or "Couperin le Grand." Francois Couperin, also known as "Couperin le Grand." One key French composer will be well represented on the program even though he didn’t directly write ...

Du moucheron au réveil-matin, François Couperin a publié plus d'une centaine d'oeuvres pour clavecin à travers ses 27 ordres. A 45 ans, François Couperin publie son premier livre de pièces de clavecin ...

This week, Donald Macleod surveys musical portraits of aristocracy and musicians by Francois Couperin. In Composer of the Week, Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of the French Baroque ...

Un artiste est toujours de son époque : Jacques Duphly naît l’année de la mort de Louis XIV, le 12 janvier 1715, il meurt le ...

The most prominent representative (thus ‘Le Grand’) of a famous family of musicians whose dynasty began in the 1620s and expired when the last male Couperin died two centuries later – French rivals to ...

This kaleidescopic musical trompe l’oeil will invade your consciousness for weeks Here’s a challenge for a thawing Thursday: see if you can listen to this piece and not have it invade your entire ...

Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of François Couperin, one of France’s most dazzling musical talents. Donald begins by leading us through a gallery of the musical portraits that Couperin ...

Photo: Bertrand Pichene Chose rare pour un musicien né en 1961, Christophe Rousset est entré très tôt en contact avec la musique de François Couperin (1668-1733). La Fondation Arte Musica avait puisé ...

The delightful scenario of L’Apothéose de Lully imagines the composer Lully, one of François Couperin’s forebears at the court of Louis XIV, being wafted up to Mount Parnassus by Apollo. There, he ...

April 15, 2015 • Hear a consummate master of early music, conductor and viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, lead his ensemble Le Concert des Nations in an exhilarating array of 17th- and 18th-century ...