Angela Hewitt has received numerous accolades, including the first BBC Radio 3 Listener's Award in 2003, Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000, and an OBE in 2006.
Performer Biography
Angela Hewitt, the performer on this album, is an award-winning artist known for her recordings of Bach's major keyboard works, described as "one of the record glories of our age."
Compositional Technique
Couperin's later keyboard works feature more pronounced melancholy, mystery, descending chromaticisms, and a focus on the upper register of the keyboard.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Couperin aspired to a "chimerical immortality" through his compositions, hoping his family would find works in his portfolios to make him regretted after life.
Compositional Technique
In his last book of keyboard pieces, Couperin used unusual keys like F sharp minor and F sharp major, tonalities previously explored in keyboard music only by Bach.
Composer Biography
François Couperin's fourth book of Pièces de Clavecin was his last published work, appearing in 1730, just three years before his death, as his health was rapidly declining.
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