1) Ouverture: 00:01 2) Allemande: 05:06 3) Courante: 09:12 4) Sarabande: 10:56
5) Gavotte: 13:55 6) Menuet: 14:51 7) Gigue: 16:03
Very little is known of Charles Dieupart. As a matter of fact, we’re not even quite sure of what his first name was: it may well have been François instead of Charles. What we do know is that he was born in France, but by about 1700 was living in London, where he spent the rest of his life, dying in poverty in 1740.
A sad end for a composer who wrote such a magnificent collection of harpsichord suites! Musically, they are so good that they attracted the attention of the great J.S. Bach, who copied them all out by hand for his own use. As a matter of fact, Bach seems to have paid Dieupart a tribute: the first movement of Bach’s first English suite (also in A Major) bears a striking motivic resemblance to the last movement of Dieupart’s A Major suite (movement seven in the present recording). Indeed: some musicologists opine that the reason one set of Bach’s suites are called “English” may well be because in the Bach family, it was known that it was Dieupart’s works - published in London - that influenced Johann Sebastian when he wrote his suites.
In any case, these works definitely deserve to be better known!
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P.P.S.: The sound samples used for this recording were taken from a harpsichord by Blanchet (1720); they can be freely downloaded at this site: duphly.free.fr/en
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