Refined Louis Couperin from Christophe Rousset

This week your free download is from harpsichordist Christophe Rousset's new recording of music by Louis Couperin (Aparté AP006). Although today he's overshadowed by his nephew Francois 'le grand', Louis Couperin, suggests Rousset, deserves to be better known. This week your free track is the Passacaille from the Suite in C.

'Rousset combines meticulous fingerwork and attention to the music's intricacies with rhetorical gestures, balletic energy and a dramatic flair informed by his long experience directing French Baroque opera and ballet,' writes Kate Bolton in BBC Music Magazine, '… a detailed yet luminous recording.'

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