Richard Strauss – Divertimento after Couperin

Portrait of Strauss by Max Liebermann (1918)

Richard Strauss

(11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt.[3] Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

 

 

 

Divertimento after Couperin

François Couperin (1668-1733):Couperin is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 80 kilometers.

Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Couperin is named for the French composer François Couperin, who lived from 1688 to 1733. 

 

Divertimento aus Klavierstücke von François Couperin, Op.86 (1941)

I. La Visionnaire [00:00] II. Musette de Choisy [02:52] La fine Madelon [04:47] La douce Janneton [06:03] La Sézile [07:12] Musette de Taverny [07:45] III. Le Tic-Toc-Choc [09:16] La Lutine [11:24] IV. Les Fauvettes plaintives [13:24] V. Le Trophée [16:23] L' Anguille [17:34] Les jeunes Seigneurs [20:48] Le Trophée [23:12] La Linotte effarouchée [24:18] VI. Les Tours de Passe-passe [26:13] VII. Les Ombres errantes [29:23] VIII. Les Brimborions [32:55] La Badine [35:04]