Composer of the Week - Francois Couperin - The French-Italian Question

The Italian influence on French music was a subject of great intellectual debate in Couperin's age, and Donald Macleod considers how the composer united the two styles in his music. Couperin: Gigue La Francoise (First Ordre - Les Nations) Quadro Amsterdam Couperin: La Piemontoise (l'Astree) (Fourth Ordre - Les Nations) Quadro Amsterdam Marc Roger Normand Couperin: Sarabande Davitt Moroney (harpsichord) Couperin: Usquequo Domine Paul Agnew (countertenor) Les Arts Florissants: Maia Silberstein (violin) Anne-Marie Lasla (viola da gamba) Catherine Girard (violin) William Christie (conductor) Couperin: Les folies francoises, ou les dominos (Thirteenth Ordre - Book 3) Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) Couperin: Les gouts reunis (fourth concert) Ensemble Couperin Thomas Indermuhle (oboe) Henk de Wit (bassoon) Ursula Duetschler (harpsichord) Couperin: Le parnasse or L'apotheose de Corelli English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).