Beautiful Couperin pieces played on the piano. Love this collection. Alexandre Tharaud is an outstanding, accomplished pianist.

Abominable. If you want to listen to Couperin, please do so on the harpsichord---his music in particular is suited only for that instrument. The structure of the pieces, the voicing of the chords, the harmonies, suspensions, silences and ornaments, all of these are so suited to the harpsichord that it is unthinkable to play them on anything else. That having been said, Thauraud plays well considering, but it's still a freakshow of an album. These pieces don't even carry over to organ, which actually existed at the time the pieces were written. The Pieces de clavecin are intended solely for the harpsichord. Go download Cuckston's album instead.

came across Tharaud's Bach recording by chance... a revelation; now his selection of Couperin pieces which is the same; I knew them only as a purist ie played on period harpsichords ;loved it from the first listen;fine fingered without being gooey-soppy, full of moods you can feel even without looking at the name of the piece;all in finesse and mastered delicacy without foppishness. a delight to the ears