Olivier Baumont, Ingrid Perruche, Pierre-Éric Nimylowycz & Nicolas Mackowiak - Un clavecin pour Marcel Proust (2022) [24/96]

Although some people might think that the likes of a rediscovered piece of music, one or two mentions of the instrument picked up here and there, a rather startling meeting between the writer and the most famous harpsichordist of the day, along with a metaphor in the guise of an epitaph written by a poetess friend are fairly slender foundations on which to build a programme entitled “A harpsichord for Marcel Proust”, this recording is not about a harpsichord that Marcel Proust had at his home or that belonged to him - it is a harpsichord for Marcel Proust. It is intended as a tribute by a harpsichordist of today to the man who wrote À la Recherche du Temps Perdu and who lived during an all-too-often overlooked period in the instrument’s history.

Tracklist
01. Les baricades misterieuses in B-Flat Major
02. 1er Air des Fleurs in D Major rondeau
03. Gavotte vive pour les Fleurs in D Major
04. Air gratieux pour les Amours in G Major
05. Air tendre pour la rose in B Minor rondeau
06. Gavotte pour les Fleurs in B Minor rondeau
07. Sonata V in A Major Andante
08. Therese in C Minor Le menuet d’amour
09. Suite anglaise No. 6, BWV811 Gavotte I
10. Suite anglaise No. 6, BWV811 Gavotte II
11. Toccata in C Minor
12. Sonata in G Major, K.144 Cantabile
13. Sonata in G Major, K.55 Presto
14. Das Wohltemperierte Clavier I, BWV851 Prelude
15. Das Wohltemperierte Clavier I, BWV851 Fugue
16. Gavotte de Dardanus in A Major (Transcription de Claude Balbastre)
17. Sonatine in C Major Allegro non troppo
18. Alemande de Chapelle & deux Variations in G Major (Variations attribuees a Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
19. D'Anne jouant de l'espinette
20. Les Ombres errantes in C Minor