Hannah French explores Francois Couperin's extraordinarily dark and powerful vocal music for Holy Week - his settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah - the Lecons de Tenebres.

So many of us, thinking of Francois Couperin, think of Ravel’s charming piano masterpiece, “Le Tombeau de Couperin” – the tomb of Couperin – which looks back affectionately on the Baroque master. It’s ...

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 ...

François Couperin was one of the baroque era’s greatest keyboard composers. Did he write any orchestral music? Er, no. Though listen to a few minutes of Hugo Reyne’s version of his trio sonata “La ...

François Couperin's Trois Leçons de Ténèbres for voice and continuo are in the Holy Week tradition of settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Nine were projected ...

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 ...

The trajectory of Easter observance is poignantly described by this sequence of music, which includes the Maundy Thursday Tenebrae settings by François Couperin “Le Grand” together with his motet for ...

My first "real movie", which I started when I was a student, in 1978/79. An exploration / transformation of a mysterious house, black and white, with music by Couperin as indicated by the title. - ...

The Department of Music will present UB faculty member and organist/pianist Roland E. Martin in recital at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus. Martin will be joined by ...

Brahms made considerable efforts to revive the reputation of François Couperin, performing his keyboard music in concerts and contributing to Friedrich Chrysander's edition of the Pièces de clavecin ...

The Revue de musicologie has been published since 1917 as the official journal of the Société Française de Musicologie and gathers the contributions of many french-speaking musicologists. Its span ...

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 ...