Louis Couperin

[keyquest]

What are your views on Early Baroque keyboard works being performed on the modern piano?

I recently performed and have now recorded a lovely Chaconne by Louis Couperin (1626-1661) which you can listen to here, as well as reading my thoughts on how to adapt this wonderful music for the modern instrument…

https://pianodao.com/2016/10/27/louis-couperin-piano/

Interested in your thoughts….

[cimirro]

What are your views on Early Baroque keyboard works being performed on the modern piano?

I recently performed and have now recorded a lovely Chaconne by Louis Couperin (1626-1661) which you can listen to here, as well as reading my thoughts on how to adapt this wonderful music for the modern instrument…

https://pianodao.com/2016/10/27/louis-couperin-piano/

Interested in your thoughts….

I think it is wonderful explore such repertoire in piano.
Personally I had a lot of pieces which I really love even before the barroque period.

Curiously I had made some videos about music history for TV and I used a piano for playing some of the oldest songs we know today like the Hurrian songs (c.1400 aC), hymn to Apollo, Seikilos Epitaph, etc.
and these were pieces for singing, not for playing in a instrument - but why not?
So any piece written for a keyboard instrument MUST be played also in a piano, no matter if there was no piano when the piece was composed.

And if someone tells you "you can't do it", please remember that Bach used to transcribe music made by other composers and for other instruments to his instrument too (BWV.972-987). So, if Bach did it, we can too.

All the best
Artur Cimirro