Francois Couperin, or "Couperin le Grand." Francois Couperin, also known as "Couperin le Grand." One key French composer will be well represented on the program even though he didn’t directly write ...

Ambronay festival favourites Les Ombres are described as being part of the new young generation, who apparently ‘cross borders to share a vision of human resolve beyond national divide’ and create ‘a ...

After a childhood spent practicing an instrument, composers, no matter how rebellious, remain bound to the past. John Cage’s attraction to Mozart was lifelong. Stravinsky adored Tchaikovsky, ...

Thomas Adès, the British composer, seems to have reached the stage where, whatever he writes, someone will program it. That’s stardom. Last Thursday, the New York Philharmonic opened a concert with ...

The 350th anniversary of the French composer’s birth is the perfect time to reconsider his output Why has the French baroque composer François Couperin (1668-1733) never quite made it to the top of ...

This week, Donald Macleod surveys musical portraits of aristocracy and musicians by Francois Couperin. In Composer of the Week, Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of the French Baroque ...

This kaleidescopic musical trompe l’oeil will invade your consciousness for weeks Here’s a challenge for a thawing Thursday: see if you can listen to this piece and not have it invade your entire ...

Hannah French explores Francois Couperin's extraordinarily dark and powerful vocal music for Holy Week - his settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah - the Lecons de Tenebres.

The delightful scenario of L’Apothéose de Lully imagines the composer Lully, one of François Couperin’s forebears at the court of Louis XIV, being wafted up to Mount Parnassus by Apollo. There, he ...

Maurice Ravel was a truck driver in the military transport service during World War I. He was surrounded by the horrors of war and yet paradoxically the music he wrote in response to that war contains ...

The best recordings serve to illuminate a composer’s music, shining a light in dark corners to reveal previously hidden details. Others redraw its horizon completely. Jean Rondeau’s monumental ‘Louis ...