Pierre Thomas Dufour - Pièces de clavecin Op.1 (Pieces in F and C)

Pierre Thomas Dufour (ca. 1721-1786)
Pièces de Clavecin, Op.1 (first ed. 1770 ca.)
Pieces in F
Allemande [00:00]
Gigue, suitte de la Chasse [05:53]
(La Chasse) [08:29]
Les Scithes [10:01]
La Plaintive [14:36]
Pieces in C
Les Matelots [18:49]
Menuet [24:01]
La Sincère [26:11]
Performer: • Dufour: Pièces de Clav...
Score from: imslp.org/wiki/Category:Dufou...

[@igordrm]

Loved it. It is courious how it sounds so much baroque, although published in 1770. I wonder when it was actually written.

[@SPscorevideos]

Dufour was born in 1721, this has to be composed after 1745 at least.

[@Garrett_Rowland]

French harpsichord musicians held on to this style a bit longer than their peers in the Italian and German regions.

[@mensah-j]

Thanks for doing these pieces!

[@W.ClassicMusic]

Thank you for the great music today

[@zionfortuna]

7:08 that was pretty cool

[@SPscorevideos]

Played by Fernando De Luca (www.youtube.com/@falernoducande1961).

[@StanleyGrill]

Very idiosyncratic performance. Made me curious if there is a historical basis for the uneven rhythms.

[@SPscorevideos]

What do you mean by "uneven rhythms"?

[@erika6651]

I'm curious myself. I've heard heard a few baroque harpshichord recordings on here where straightforward 8th and 16th note clusters were in the score but were performed as though they were dotted.

[@StyzeSoulmaker]

It's called notes inegales

[@SPscorevideos]

Oh, that... Yes, it's this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_in%C3%A9gales