Just for information, all the known pieces by 
Louis Couperin are recorded on my 1983 Harmonia 
Mundi recording of all the harpsichord pieces 
(including a few that I now think are probably 
not by him!), and also on my 1995 recording of 
all 70 organ works (Radio France, Temperaments). 
So there is nothing here that has never been 
recorded, as far as I know.

Both sets of my CDs (7 in all) have also been 
reprinted on budget label so are certainly 
available.

The "Duretez Fantaisie" is a most spectacular 
piece, and very clearly an organ work, not a 
harpsichord work. But I suppose nothing stops 
people recording it on the harpsichord if they 
like it that way...

Warning: By the way, a completely false -- in 
effect a modern recompositon of the work -- 
version of this Duretez piece is circulating, and 
has even been printed in a semi official way in 
the 1990s. I traced down its origins some years 
ago. It was in fact composed by Antoine Geoffroy 
de Chaumes in the  late1950s. It's a spurious 
work.

DM


>from the recommended website:
>
>... "des piËces rÈcemment dÈcouvertes et encore jamais enregistrÈes
>comme la Duretez Fantaisie."
>
>--- what's that, and where can I get a copy?? I must have missed the
>recent LC discoveries.
>
>~~~T~~~


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