Credits:

Otsuka Naoya

Description:

This album contains representative works by Louis Couperin, the great French composer of the 17th century, whose trademark style of "Prélude non musique" (Prelude without beat) is considered heretical in the history of Western music. The textures played by Naoya Otsuka, a leader of the middle generation in the world of ancient music, move as a great undulation and sublimate all time to a moment of fulfilling beauty, even to the lingering sound of the plucked strings. This ambitious disc reveals the essence of a composer wrapped in a mysterious veil. (C)RS