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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Couperin’s four Concerts royaux – each a suite of about half a dozen devilishly attractive instrumental movements, mostly dances – were written in the 1710s for performance in the private apartments ...

The most prominent representative (thus ‘Le Grand’) of a famous family of musicians whose dynasty began in the 1620s and expired when the last male Couperin died two centuries later – French rivals to ...

Couperin's Tomb Audio will be available later today. Yan Pascal Tortelier leads the Ulster Orchestra in the Menuet from Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) Le Tombeau de Couperin.

Two of the UK’s finest early music voices divvy up Les Leçons de Ténèbres – outrageously sensual liturgical lamentations written by François Couperin for Holy Week in 1714. In the first lesson, Lucy ...

Composers don’t do tributes like they used to. Couperin’s fanciful 1725 entertainment dedicated “to the immortal memory of the incomparable” Lully has the late French master summoned by Apollo from ...

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 ...