1-13 Premier Ordre (en ré mineur)
Allemande: La Couronne
Allemande: La Sincopée
Courante
Sarabande: La Magnifique
Le Pattelin: Rondeau
Gigue: La Bléville
La Sensible: Rondeau
Les Dances Provençales
La Caressante
La Sautillante
Menuet
Double du Menuet Précédant
Autre (Menuet)

14-20 Second Ordre (en fa majeur)
La Pigou
Le Colin Mailliard: Rondeau
La Pressante Angélique
Le Précieux: Rondeau
Les deux Cousines
Menuet
Chaconne: La Sonning

21-31 Troisième Ordre (en ré majeur)
L’Ingénieuse
La Villerey ou les deux Sœurs
L’Agréable: Rondeau
La Fauvette
La Misterieuse
La Val Joyeux: Vaudeville
Le Moulin à Vent
La Minerve: Rondeau
L’Etourdie: Rondeau
Le presque rien: Rondeau
La Courtisane: Gavotte

21-34 Quatrième Ordre (en mi mineur): Extraits
Allemande: La Couperin
Menuet
La Janneton: Rondeau

Having recently recorded a CD of D’Agincour’s music for organ (GCD 921701), Hervé Niquet now turns his talents to D’Agincour’s book of harpsichord pieces from 1733, in his second offering for Glossa as a solo artist . D’Agincour presents a very different picture of France to the one depicted by Charpentier seventy years earlier. He portrays life at Versailles and the opulent salons, the courtly comings and goings, furtive glances in the reflections of the Mirror Gallery, confidences and conspiracies, and the meticulous presentation of the self in this elaborate setting. These wonderful miniatures from his second book of harpsichord pieces are often portrait pieces and, in Hervé Niquet’s words, “The pieces contained in the four orders by D’Agincour are of singular importance to 18th century harpsichord literature, possessing strength, character, conception of a refined sound world and an unique French flavour”.

This thoroughly enjoyable CD sheds a new light on the French baroque thanks to Hervé Niquet’s consummate performances of these harpsichord pieces by a great, but neglected, composer.