Credits:

Yoshio Watanabe

Description:

A superb Kroll harpsichord brings the glorious progress of French keyboard music back to lifeLouis Couperin, emblem of the “grand sicle” of Louis XIV, and Rameau and Forqueray, who produced boldly forward-looking works in the turbulent eighteenth century: from the output of these three central figures of the clavecin repertoire, Yoshio Watanabe has chosen the pieces that chime most closely with his own weighty musicianship. Heard on a fine instrument by Christian Kroll, the harpsichord builder active in Lyon in the eighteenth century, these masterpieces convey the colour and brilliance of two centuries of French music at its height. The booklet includes Watanabe’s own essay offering a broad survey of how harpsichords were built in different countries. Recorded at the museum in Chartres, France.Born in Kamakura in 1950. Harpsichordist, fortepianist, clavichordist and conductor; winner of the