3 pieces from forqueray’s suite no. 1

© Tilman Skowroneck 2021

Edited June 30, 2021. Here are a few pieces from Forqueray’s first suite in D-minor. I was originally planning to home-record the entire suite but the acoustics here in the living room are compromised and also I got embroiled in other projects, so I’m keeping it at the first three for the time being.

I’ve always loved this suite especially, possibly because it’s the first suite by Forqueray I ever heard …

La Laborde, recorded 20 May 2020.

La Forqueray, recorded 7 June 2020.

La Cottin, recorded 3 July 2020

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remembering M. S.

May 14, 2020

Today six years ago, Martin Skowroneck passed away. He would have been 93 years old now. I made a spontaneous–after-dinner-recording in his memory of one of my favorite pieces, the Prélude in D by Jean – Henry D’Anglebert.

Later tonight, we will celebrate him by filling, lifting, and emptying, a glass in his memory. I know he would have wanted that.

 

stay-at-home cyclopes

In my second stay-at-home video, I play J.Ph. Rameau’s Les Cyclopes, a piece that is good for encores but dangerous to play when too tired (so it’s always good to have an alternative ready!).