Trois regards sur Couperin (2017) for alto flute, violin, cello and guitar
I. Les baricades mysterieuses
II. Gravement
III. Forlane

duration: 11'

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Programme Note

Francois Couperin is one of my favourite composers. His harpsichord ordres and chamber music seem to contain the full range of human emotion, but always conveyed with a degree of detail and lightness of touch to which I aspire. My Trois regards sur Couperin are based on three of my favourite Couperin works: "Les baricades mysteriesuses", Couperin's most famous piece, is here treated as a kind of tapestry, with short melodic lines extracted from the texture and distributed between the instruments. "Gravement" features the violin and cello to imitate the viol, and "Forlane" is a delightful and joyous dance.