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Foucquet: Pieces de clavecin / Fernando De Luca
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Foucquet: Pieces de clavecin / Fernando De Luca

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Composer
Pierre-Claude Foucquet
Artist
Fernando De Luca
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Mar 15, 2024
Catalog #
BRI96772
UPC
5028421967721

About

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.

Foucquet must have been a richly talented organist and improviser in the French tradition, and this latter quality is abundantly and delightfully preserved by the character pieces which make up these harpsichord suites. They belong to the same tradition as the Pièces de Clavecin of Couperin, d’Anglebert and Rameau, but they have a palette of colour and a dramatic imagination of their own. The third movement of Caractères de la Paix is titled ‘Le Feu’, and it fairly sets the instrument alight with pounding explosions and ribbons of flame, demanding all the resources of both an instrument and interpreter at full stretch.

From 1751 and 1758 respectively, the second and third books are hardly less full of vividly pictorial representations – of chickens and champagne, of figures lamenting and working and praying in a gallery of probably real people whose names are now lost to us but whose personality lives on in the keyboard music of French composers from the time.

This album of Foucquet is a notable addition to the Brilliant Classics discography of Fernando De Luca, which already includes complete surveys of other unfamiliar names from the time such as Jollage, Moyreau and most recently Pierre-Thomas Dufour (96771).

Tracklist 35 tracks

  1. 1 I. La renommée – Marche en Rondeau – Double de La Marche 03:22
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. La renommée – Marche en Rondeau – Double de La Marche
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  2. 2 II. Fanfare 02:06
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Fanfare
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  3. 3 III. Le feu 05:16
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Le feu
    Duration
    05:16
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  4. 4 IV. Les grâces – Musette I-II 04:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Les grâces – Musette I-II
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  5. 5 V. Les ris – Tambourins I-II - Rondeau 02:17
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Les ris – Tambourins I-II - Rondeau
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  6. 6 VI. Les Jeux - Rondeau 02:38
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Les Jeux - Rondeau
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  7. 7 I. Marche des Pèlerins de Cythère, Rondeau 03:42
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Marche des Pèlerins de Cythère, Rondeau
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  8. 8 II. Le passe tems - Pantomyme, Rondeau 03:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Le passe tems - Pantomyme, Rondeau
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  9. 9 III. La destrade, Rondeau 02:32
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. La destrade, Rondeau
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  10. 10 IV. Le carillon de cythère 05:40
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Le carillon de cythère
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  11. 11 V. La brillante 04:18
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. La brillante
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  12. 12 VI. La sœur Agnès ou la novice, Rondeau - Double 06:02
    Track
    12
    Title
    VI. La sœur Agnès ou la novice, Rondeau - Double
    Duration
    06:02
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  13. 13 VII. La laborieuse, Rondeau 06:24
    Track
    13
    Title
    VII. La laborieuse, Rondeau
    Duration
    06:24
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  14. 14 VIII. Allemande, La pruscienne francisée 04:26
    Track
    14
    Title
    VIII. Allemande, La pruscienne francisée
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  15. 15 IX. La dolescente 02:28
    Track
    15
    Title
    IX. La dolescente
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  16. 16 X. L'angélique, Rondeau 02:55
    Track
    16
    Title
    X. L'angélique, Rondeau
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  17. 17 XI. La mimi, Rondeau - Double 05:11
    Track
    17
    Title
    XI. La mimi, Rondeau - Double
    Duration
    05:11
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  18. 18 XII. La cémonville, Rondeau 03:50
    Track
    18
    Title
    XII. La cémonville, Rondeau
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  19. 19 XIII. La landella, Rondeau 06:40
    Track
    19
    Title
    XIII. La landella, Rondeau
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  20. 20 I. Les forgerons, Rondeau 12:01
    Track
    20
    Title
    I. Les forgerons, Rondeau
    Duration
    12:01
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  21. 21 II. Le concert des faunes, Rondeau 03:27
    Track
    21
    Title
    II. Le concert des faunes, Rondeau
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  22. 22 III. Allemande, L'augustine 04:41
    Track
    22
    Title
    III. Allemande, L'augustine
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  23. 23 IV. La douce et piquante, Rondeau 04:47
    Track
    23
    Title
    IV. La douce et piquante, Rondeau
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  24. 24 V. La nanette, Rondeaux I-II 06:26
    Track
    24
    Title
    V. La nanette, Rondeaux I-II
    Duration
    06:26
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  25. 25 VI. Les coqs gris et noirs, Rondeau - Double des coqs gris et noirs 05:50
    Track
    25
    Title
    VI. Les coqs gris et noirs, Rondeau - Double des coqs gris et noirs
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  26. 26 VII. Tambourin ou musette provençale 04:19
    Track
    26
    Title
    VII. Tambourin ou musette provençale
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  27. 27 VIII. Allemande, L'absence ou le solitaire 06:50
    Track
    27
    Title
    VIII. Allemande, L'absence ou le solitaire
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  28. 28 IX. La fleury, Rondeau 05:24
    Track
    28
    Title
    IX. La fleury, Rondeau
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  29. 29 X. La hortense 02:02
    Track
    29
    Title
    X. La hortense
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  30. 30 XI. Le dépit 02:32
    Track
    30
    Title
    XI. Le dépit
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  31. 31 XII. La miranda 04:15
    Track
    31
    Title
    XII. La miranda
    Duration
    04:15
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  32. 32 XIII. La capricieuse, Rondeau 04:47
    Track
    32
    Title
    XIII. La capricieuse, Rondeau
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  33. 33 XIV. L'aimable Thérèse, Rondeau 02:56
    Track
    33
    Title
    XIV. L'aimable Thérèse, Rondeau
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  34. 34 XV. L'étinçelante 05:43
    Track
    34
    Title
    XV. L'étinçelante
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca
  35. 35 XVI. Menuets I-II-III, Rondeau 03:25
    Track
    35
    Title
    XVI. Menuets I-II-III, Rondeau
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Pierre-Claude Foucquet
    Performer
    Fernando de Luca