Dieupart: Harpsichord Suites

On this CD:

1. Suite for keyboard No.2 in D major
Composed by Charles Dieupart
Performed by Huguette Gremy-Chauliac

2. Suite for keyboard No.3 in B minor
Composed by Charles Dieupart
Performed by Huguette Gremy-Chauliac

3. Suite for keyboard No.1 in A major
Composed by Charles Dieupart
Performed by Huguette Gremy-Chauliac

4. Suite for keyboard No.4 in E minor
Composed by Charles Dieupart
Performed by Huguette Gremy-Chauliac

5. Suite for keyboard No.5 in F major
Composed by Charles Dieupart
Performed by Huguette Gremy-Chauliac

6. Suite for keyboard No.6 in F minor
Composed by Charles Dieupart
Performed by Huguette Gremy-Chauliac

Tracks:

My Lady Carey's Dompe
Les Buffons
The Primerose
La Volta
The Fall Of The Leafe
Pavana Dolorosa
Galiarda Dolorosa
The King's Hunt
Branle Gay
Tombeau de M.de Blancrocher
Branle De Montirande
Concerto In D Minor, After Alessandro Marcello: Allegro
Concerto In D Minor, After Alessandro Marcello: Andante
Concerto In D Minor, After Alessandro Marcello: Presto
Sonata In A Major
Sonata In D Major
Pavane In F-sharp Minor
Le Moutier, After Louis Couperin
Gavotte et Doubles
Passepied
La Pantomime

Customer Reviews:

Puyana y la edad de oro.......2005-11-14

Thanks to this record, I started to love de harpsichord and to know the music of the golden age of this instrument. I remember the little piece My lady's carey dump or something like that. I should be a pleasure to have it again.

Puyana Plays to Perfection.......2004-06-25

Mr Puyana has a sink-your-teeth-into style of playing upon the harpsichord which I find immensely satisfying. He doesn't pussy-foot upon the keys, he attacks them with a flair and a finesse, appearing to thoroughly enjoy himself in the process. I can readily imagine him performing many of these pieces with a smile creasing his face. And why not? These are some delightful compositions, packed with trills and runs and cadenzas and what have you. A harpsichordist's dream, I'll imagine, and a splendid introduction to this instrument for those who might be unfamiliar. The tone of the instrument is wonderful, clear and ringing. A rousing pick-me-up variety here, perfect to play for a gathering of friends, or while pottering about the house. And whilst doing so, you might discover yourself tapping your toes and smiling along! Also recommended is his disc of Fandangos and Tangos, for another bit of whirlwind musical fun.

Top-Drawer Performance, Sound Quality, Music, and Value.......2000-12-23

This is a reissue of a set of Mercury Living Presence LPs recorded in 1962. Mercury's Living Presence series was renowned for its sound quality; even though this is an ADD CD, the sound quality leaves nothing to be desired.

The first track on the CD is an anonymous piece from 1500, which, with its jumping rhythm and melody, is eerily reminiscent of some of Grieg's piano pieces and some of Tchaikovsky's ballet music, composed nearly four-hundred years later. It is the most unusual piece on a CD filled with pieces that are, if not unusual, at least, with the exception of Bach's Concerto in Dm, not well-known at all, frequently by composers who are equally obscure. All too frequently, I find that music remains little-known because it does not deserve to be known better. That is not the case here. Puyana has chosen wisely; the listener, unless he is quite a musicologist, will be hearing many of these pieces for the first time, and, I think, enjoying them immensely.

Puyana uses a firmer touch than most other harpsichordists, yet he is never heavy-handed. His rhythmic drive is strong, yet he pays attention to the nuances of the pieces.

Tracks:

Prld, Z.N773
Son, Z.780: Adagio - (Canzona)
Son, Z.780: Largo - Vivace
Dioclesian, Z.627/16: Two In One Upon A Ground
Celebrate This Festival, Z.321/12: Return, Fond Muse
Ste in G, Z.770: Ov
Ste in G, Z.770: Air
Ste in G, Z.770: Borry
Ste in G, Z.770: Minuet
Ste in G, Z.770: Jigg
Chacony, Z.730
A Choice Collection Of Lessons, Z.660-62: Ste in G: Prld, Z.660/1
A Choice Collection Of Lessons, Z.660-62: Ste in G: Almand, Z.660/2
A Choice Collection Of Lessons, Z.660-62: Ste in G: Courant, Z.662/3
A Choice Collection Of Lessons, Z.660-62: Ste in G: Saraband, Z.661/4
A Choice Collection Of Lessons, Z.660-62: Ste in G: (Minuet), Z.660/4
The Fairy Queen, Z.629/10: Prld
Three Parts Upon A Ground, Z.731
Hail! Bright Cecilia, Z.328/10: In Vain The Am'rous Fl
Welcome To All The Pleasures, Z.T682; Z.339/3: A New Ground
Sym in g (How Pleasant Is This Flowery Plain, Z.543)
Sym in g (Soft Notes And Gently Raised, Z.510)
Sym in g: (Saraband) (Hark, Damon, Hark, Z.541)
Sym in g: King Arthur, Z.628/17: (Rigadoon)
Pavan Of Four Parts, Z.752
Ground, Z.D221
Funerall March & Canzona, Z.860

Tracks:

Ste No.1 in A: Ov
Ste No.1 in A: Allemande
Ste No.1 in A: Courante
Ste No.1 in A: Sarabande
Ste No.1 in A: Gavotte
Ste No.1 in A: Menuet
Ste No.1 in A: Gigue
Ste No.2 in D: Ov
Ste No.2 in D: Allemande
Ste No.2 in D: Courante
Ste No.2 in D: Sarabande
Ste No.2 in D: Gavotte
Ste No.2 in D: Passepied
Ste No.2 in D: Gigue
Ste No.3 in b: Ov
Ste No.3 in b: Allemande
Ste No.3 in b: Courante
Ste No.3 in b: Sarabande
Ste No.3 in b: Gavotte
Ste No.3 in b: Menuet Serieux
Ste No.3 in b: Gigue
Ste No.4 in e: Ov
Ste No.4 in e: Allemande
Ste No.4 in e: Courante
Ste No.4 in e: Sarabande
Ste No.4 in e: Gavotte
Ste No.4 in e: Menuet
Ste No.4 in e: Gigue
Ste No.5 in F: Ov
Ste No.5 in F: Allemande
Ste No.5 in F: Courante
Ste No.5 in F: Sarabande
Ste No.5 in F: Gavotte
Ste No.5 in F: Menuet En Rondeau
Ste No.5 in F: Gigue
Ste No.6 in f: Ov
Ste No.6 in f: Allemande
Ste No.6 in f: Courante
Ste No.6 in f: Sarabande
Ste No.6 in f: Gavotte
Ste No.6 in f: Menuet
Ste No.6 in f: Gigue

Customer Reviews:

nice sound.......2002-10-14

this recording the purcell's wunderfull music sounds nice, but not more. h. reyne is a fine player but his intonation is not perfect even his sound is good but everytime on the same level. other recorder players like steger or marq are much better.

Wonderful tuning.......2002-09-05

This is very good recording of very interesting music, not easy music anyway, at least if we talk about Dieupart, the Frenchman living in London. His style is pure orthodox French, always following the suite schema, including very amazing overtures, beautiful allemandes and some polyphonical giges. This suites are so well conceived that gain recognizance from Bach at the time. Is the kind of music to listen again and again and enjoy more and more as one gets into the stile. The playing of Hugo Reyne is expressive, absolutely in style, helped by warm tone and (well, I have to point it out) absolutely in tune. In the passpied of suite N2 he gives us an example of perfect French articulation, according with Hotetterre principles. To tell the truth I didn't enjoy the use of violin in Suite 3, which IMHO calls for a more introspective approach without artificial "ritornellos". Remarkable is the research work, leading them to the design and construction of a b' flat fourth used for the first time here (I remember the W.V. Hawe version with a b'' flat soprano fourth flute, sure best suited for a live concert not a cd, and of course all the "arrangements" for standard soprano).
The Purcell cd is the only "modern" recording (after 1980) in authentic old recorders. In fact it is so rare for a recorder player to have the opportunity to play at least once in his/her life an old instrument, and here we have a whole baroque consort (the legendary chester Bressan, the equivalent of Stradivarius) playing together, allowing us to appreciate the magnificent way their "voices" blend. The English recorder music is a whole universe partially unknown, and extremely rich, going from renaissance to high baroque. From the provincial taste, brought back to the city with the restoration, to the eclectic 1700 London musical scene, featuring many of the best musicians around the world working together.
The players in this cd are among the best and most renowned in the world, from the new and very interesting French school of recorder playing, focusing in color and expressivities. Is interesting to note here how close their style relate to Franz Bruggen. By the way there was a controversy about him been out of tune 30 years ago... Some day may be we can start a controversy about the piano been out of tune, or how awfully out of tune is a tempered major third, or about how can you be in tune and make vibrato all the time (is the way I feel after only 5 yrs of not listening romantic music)... not now, not here.
Enjoy the cd is really worth buying.

out of tune recorders.......2002-04-07

Simply put, this is a highly mediocre recording. The music itself is perfectly nice - several of the Purcell works are quite memorable, and overall these are a fine representative sample of his chamber music, as well as that of the lesser known Dieupart. But this is weak recorder playing. They are frequently extremely out of tune - and I'm perfectly aware that baroque intonation can be quite different from modern intonation and that the recorder has even greater leeway with regard to this than many other instruments, but this is just plain out of tune - and their tone is husky and not always pleasant. The miking is too close as well. Skip this one.