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These little-known suites are in the tradition of Rameau’s Nouvelles Suites de pièces de clavecin. Their attractive and colourful pieces are very varied in content, with many original and piquant touches. Largely French in style and containing the usual mixture of dance movements and character pieces, they occasionally betray Italian influence, including the hand-crossing popularized by Scarlatti.
“The three solo harpsichord suites of pieces start with a homage to the imaginative, and skilful late baroque French composers with rich harmonic and textural figuration, generously embellished. This opening hybrid movement is an untitled C minor allemande which surely shares its ancestry with a grand overture, and merely marked noblement — perhaps deliberately uniting the noble dedicatee with the composer’s own name.”
Read the review in The Consosrt
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Full score and parts
Music example Suite 1 (pdf)
