François Couperin – Concerts Emanuel Abbühl, David Tomàs, Carla Sanfelix, Miklós Spányi, Benoît Fallai

• François Couperin (1668 - 1733): Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore:
• 1Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: I. Le charme (gracieusement et gravement)01:31
• 2Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: II. L’enjoüement (gayement)02:58
• 3Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: III. Les graces Courante (françoise)02:11
• 4Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: IV. Le je-ne-scay-quoy (gayement)02:02
• 5Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: V. La vivacité02:50
• 6Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: VI. La noble fierté - Sarabande (gravement)02:49
• 7Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: VII. La douceur (amoureusement)02:34
• 8Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Neuvième Concert intitulé Ritratto dell’ amore: VIII. L’et coetera, ou Menuets03:39
• Concerts Royaux - Deuxième Concert:
• 9Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Deuxième Concert: I. Prélude (gracieusement)02:41
• 10Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Deuxième Concert: II. Allemande Fuguée (gayement)01:59
• 11Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Deuxième Concert: III. Air tendre03:21
• 12Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Deuxième Concert: IV. Air Contrefugué (vivement)02:41
• 13Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Deuxième Concert: V. Échos (tendrement)03:30
• Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Sixième Concert:
• 14Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Sixième Concert: I. Gravement et mesure02:00
• 15Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Sixième Concert: II. Allemande (vivement)02:26
• 16Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Sixième Concert: III. Sarabande (noblement)03:26
• 17Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Sixième Concert: IV. Air de diable (très viste)01:42
• 18Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Sixième Concert: V. Siciliène (tendrement et loûré)03:09
• Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Cinquième Concert:
• 19Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Cinquième Concert: I. Prélude (gracieusement)01:34
• 20Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Cinquième Concert: II. Allemande (gayement et les croches égales)03:06
• 21Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Cinquième Concert: III. Sarabande (grave)02:42
• 22Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Cinquième Concert: IV. Gavote (coulament)01:59
• 23Couperin: Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts - Cinquième Concert: V. Muséte dans le goût de Carillon - Rondeau02:45
• Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert:
• 24Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert: I. Prélude (gravement)02:51
• 25Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert: II. Allemande (légèrement)02:11
• 26Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert: III. Courante Françoise (galament)01:59
• 27Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert: IV. Courante a l’italienne (gayement)02:41
• 28Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert: V. Sarabande (très tendrement)02:42
• 29Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert: VI. Rigaudon (légèrement et marqué)02:10
• 30Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Quatrième Concert: VII. Forlane - Rondeau (gayement)02:57
• Total Runtime01:17:06

Info for François Couperin – Concerts

The most beautiful concertos by François Couperin for oboe, oboe d'amore, cor anglais and basso continuo.

François Couperin, one of the most significant and important composers of French Baroque music, composed fourteen concertos between 1714 and 1724, known as "Concerts Royaux" and "Les Goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux Concerts." The fantastic oboist Emanuel Abbühl has selected five of these for his new GENUIN CD. For his album, he takes advantage of the composer's decision to allow performers the freedom to choose whether the main voice should be played with harpsichord, oboe, violin, flute, or bassoon. Abbühl collaborates with fellow musicians David Tomàs (bassoon), Carla Sanfelix (Baroque cello), Miklós Spányi (harpsichord), and Benoît Fallai (theorbo), combining modern and historical instruments with the utmost respect for style, colors, and tempi: truly ear-opening!

Emanuel Abbühl, oboe
Benoît Fallai, lute, theorbo, guitar
Carla Sanfelix, baroque cello
Miklós Spányi, harpsichord
David Tomàs, bassoon

Emanuel Abbühl
was principal oboe with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and moved to the same position with the London Symphony Orchestra – performing on many of world’s leading stages and festivals confirming an international career as soloist and sought-after artist. He has been invited to perform with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra as well as at the renowned Salzburg Festival Summer and the Festivals of Tanglewood, Istanbul, Saint Petersburg, Edinburgh and Mexico City, and has worked with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Heinz Holliger, Witold Lutosławski and Bernard Haitink.

As a teacher, he is sharing his large experience with students as at the Rotterdam Conservatory, the Royal Academy of Music in London and as a visiting professor worldwide. Currently he is working as professor for oboe at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts and the Basel Academy of Music.

2011 he was appointed honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music London. His repertoire is wide spread, in a well founded and wide research from 17th to 21st century.

Benoît Fallai
Lute, theorbist and guitarist, Benoît Fallai obtained his guitar prize with the congratulations of the jury in 2010 in Arnaud Dumond’s class. He then studied theorbo and baroque lute at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon with Rolf Lislevand. After obtaining his degree in 2016, he studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with the legendary Hopkinson Smith, and was the first lutenist to be admitted to the master’s degree in improvisation.

As a sensitive and passionate musician, he devotes himself to the solo lute repertoire as well as to the art of accompaniment. He also practices Indian music (Kalasri Ensemble), singing and different styles of popular music (French songs, English pop, Sprituals, Latin American music).

As a continuo player, he has the honour of collaborating with prestigious ensembles, including La Fenice, La Chimera and Les Arts Florissants.

Carla Sanfelix
Founding member of the historical ensemble L’Apothéose, Carla Sanfelix is winner of twelve national and international awards, including: First Prize at EUBO Development Trust Prize and the Award at the 2019 Friends of York Early Music Festival Competition (United Kingdom). First Prize at the Göttingen Händel Competition 2017 (Germany), Second Prize at the prestigious International Van Wassenaer Competition 2018 within the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht (The Netherlands), and Second Prize at the Concours International de Musique Ancienne de Val de Loire 2017 (France), chaired by William Christie.

She is also cello player of the Il Maniatico Ensemble with which she has recorded the entire collection of unreleased sextets by Gaetano Brunetti for oboe and strings.

Sanfelix has been member of the Spanish National Orchestra (ONE) and has collaborated with different ensembles such as Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Bachorchester Mainz. She has a Master of Music in Performance at Trinity College of Music London with Natalia Pavlutskaya and David Kenedy and a Master of Baroque Cello and Historical Performance at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Kristin von der Goltz.

Miklós Spányi
is one of the most famous researchers and interpreter of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. He has recorded C. P. E. Bach’s complete piano concerts (20 CDs), and his complete recording of the Solo Keyboard Works by this composer will be finished soon as well (40 CDs published so far). He is also editor of many of C. P. E. Bach’s works.

Miklós Spányi has studied organ, harpsichord and pianoforte at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ferenc Gergely and János Sebestyén as well as at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp with Jos van Immerseel and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Hedwig Bilgram. He concerted in many European countries and in the USA on the organ, harpsichord, clavichord, tangent piano and pianoforte and won at the international Cembalo Competitions in Nantes (1984) and Paris (1987).

Spányi was artistic director of the Hungarian baroque orchestra Concerto Armonico since its creation. As a solo artist and with his ensemble, Miklós Spányi has recorded numerous CDs for different European labels.

Between 1990 and 2012, he taught at the Oulu Conservatory, Finland and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He now teaches at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Miklós Spányi is also known as an improvisor and composer.

David Tomàs
is one of the most internationally renowned bassoon players and pedagogues of his generation. His students hold positions in orchestras and music education centers around the world.

David Tomàs is professor at the University of Music Karlsruhe, Germany and Musikene, San Sebastián. He has been a member of the jury of the International ARD Music Competition, Munich in 2002 and 2009.

David Tomàs has been principal bassoon of the orchestras of the RTVE (Radio Symphony Orchestra of Madrid-Spain), Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Orquestra de Cadaqués. As a soloist he has given concerts and recitals under conductors such as Robert King or Neville Marriner, and has given recitals all over the world. He has also been invited by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and international festivals and institutions such as Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Oaxaca, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Porto, Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Academy of Music Kraków, and Cordoba. He is also in demand as s a guest conductor of chamber and symphonic ensembles.

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