Name: Couperin, F: Pieces de Viole
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Markku Luolajan-Mikkola plays with enormous reverence and attention to detail. Yet some listeners will find these performances lacking in panache. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2008

Release Date: 12th Nov 2007
Catalogue No: AV2132
Label: Avie
Length: 66 minutes

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Couperin, F: Pièces de Violes Première Suite in E Minor

Work length21:59

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Mikko Perkola, Aapo Häkkinen, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola

I. Prelude gravement

Track length3:40

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$1.40

II. Allemande Légere

Track length2:21

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III. Courante

Track length1:59

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IV. Sarabande Grave

Track length4:01

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V. Gavotte gracieusement sans lenteur.

Track length2:10

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$1.40

VI. Gigue gayment.

Track length2:15

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VII. Passacaille ou Chaconne

Track length5:33

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$1.40

Couperin, F: Pièces de Violes Deuxième Suite in A Major

Work length16:58

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Mikko Perkola, Aapo Häkkinen, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola

I. Prelude gravement

Track length2:48

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II. Fuguette

Track length2:13

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III. Pompe Funebre tres gravement.

Track length7:46

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IV. La Chemise blanche tres viste.

Track length4:11

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Couperin, F: Les Goûts Réunis Dixième Concert

Work length10:21

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Mikko Perkola, Aapo Häkkinen, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola

I. [Prelude] Gravement et mesuré

Track length1:48

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II. Air tendre et louré. Sans lenteur

Track length2:55

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III. Plainte pour les violes ou autres instrumens à l'unisson. Lentement et douloureusement

Track length3:48

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IV. La tromba. Légèrement

Track length1:50

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Couperin, F: Les Goûts Réunis Douzième Concert

Work length7:52

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Mikko Perkola, Aapo Häkkinen, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola

I. [Prelude] Pointé-coulé

Track length1:23

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II. Badinage

Track length1:56

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III. [Sans titre] Lentement et patétiquement

Track length1:08

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IV. Air. Gracieusement et légèrement

Track length3:25

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Couperin, F: Les Goûts Réunis Treizième Concert

Work length9:25

$4.00

$5.60

Mikko Perkola, Aapo Häkkinen, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola

I. [Prélude] Vivement

Track length1:04

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$1.40

II. Air. Agréablement

Track length2:55

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III. Sarabande. Tendrement

Track length3:18

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IV. Chaconne. Légère

Track length2:08

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The music on this CD was composed for the private enjoyment of the French court.

During the early 18th century the institution of public concerts had not yet been born and most musicians worked in close symbiosis and interaction with their noble or ecclesiastical patrons. The problematic aspects of this symbiosis have been emphasized often enough. The patrons may have been unreliable employers and stingy with their funds. Their understanding of music may have been limited and they may have been aesthetic philistines. In such circumstances a musician probably had to fight an up-hill battle against the exigencies of his situation. There is, however, another side to the coin. Not all royal patrons were musical ignoramuses. The musician may have enjoyed a respected position at court. Certainly this was the case with Lully, who virtually became the musical dictator of France during his tenure as the musical director at Louis’ court. We also know that the economic circumstances of Couperin were very comfortable and that he became quite a wealthy man in the service of his king.

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March 2008

Markku Luolajan-Mikkola plays with enormous reverence and attention to detail. Yet some listeners will find these performances lacking in panache.

Couperin, F: Pieces de Viole

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