Word: couperin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Clemenza di Tito Overture; Schubert, Variations in A flat; Couperin, Lecons di tenebres; Milhaud, Chansons de Ronsard; Handel, Organ Concerto no. 3, opus 4; Brahms, Trio, opus post.; Debussy, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; Telemann, Trio sonata in E; R. Strauss, Serenade in E flat for 13 winds; Haydn, Sonata no. 3 for piano...
...French organ program was given in Memorial Church last night by Lois Pardue, Assistant University Organist and Organist of the Summer School. In keeping with the French tradition of "historical concerts," she covered over two centuries of composition, starting with Baroque works by Couperin, de Grigny and Clerambault...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...
Since harpsichord strings are plucked rather than hit, the sound is at once precise and shimmering. In Francois Couperin's Le Carillon de Cithere Kirkpatrick achieved a remarkable bell-like effect. The instrument is also capable of melancholy expression, as in Couperin's Allemande la Tenebreuse. J. S. Bach was represented on the program twice: by his Italian Concerto, which adapts for solo harpsichord the complete concerto form; and by his Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, which harkens back to the craggy German organ style of Scheidt and Buxtehude. Perhaps the most electrifying music of the afternoon, however, was Jean Philippe...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sun. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducts music by Berlioz and Couperin...