DESCRIPTION:
Mario MARTINOLI, harpsichord

Instrument: Keith Hill, Manchester, Michigan, USA 2004, copy of Pascal Taskin 1769 (Raymond Russell Collection, Edinburgh)

Recording: 27-28 November 2005, Pieve di San Pietro a Presciano (Arezzo, Italy)

Publication date: 2007 for Olive Music (http://www.o-livemusic.com)

Purchase CD/tracks at
http://www.amazon.fr/Louis-Marchand-Livre-pi%C3%A8ces-clavecin/dp/B002413ZB4


This work belongs to a mid-18th century manuscript book discovered in 2003 in a private French music collection. The manuscript has been inherited by the present owners in 1976 from the dissolved Forestieri-Steiner fund and constitutes an additional hand-written source of 18th century French harpsichord music. The book includes copies of well known music collections of early 18th century, namely by François Couperin, Jean-Phlippe Rameau, Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, Louis-Claude Daquin, Louis Marchand and other minor composers active in Paris around 1740, such as de Bury and Royer.

The manuscript includes a series of nineteen pieces not known from other sources or registered in public or private accessible archives and collections. These nineteen compositions are split in two different collections contained in the manuscript, which are at the center of the present recording: the "Livre de Suittes pour le clavecin composè par Monsieur de Charman(t) cordelier, et arrangè par Renard, à Paris, 1754" and the "Recueil des Airs différentes pour le clavessin composèes par plusieurs auteurs, collectées par P. Renard, avec les parties en concert, et la basse, à Paris, [illegible date]".