Christophe Rousset - Pieces de Clavecin Books I & IIToday, French Baroque composer and keyboard virtuoso Louis Marchand is perhaps best known as the performer who failed to take up J. S. Bach's challenge for a musical 'duel.' Unfortunately, this colorful legend has overshadowed Marchand's ample gifts as a composer of organ and harpsichord music. Writing in the 'old fashioned' style of d'Anglebert, he employs a profusion of ornaments which enrich the sustaining power of the sound. In contrast, the music

informed by experience

Other notable bandleaders and musicians featured in the recordings are Miles Davis

' says Los Angeles-based composer and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi

PA three-piece Catatonic Suns

"Goody Goody"

the phrase is used in reference to the fact that each of these selections was originally conceived for a keyboard instrument

As a young man

Life and Money

Someone is manipulating the players

placing the listener's ears in the audience at the show

takes us from the mid-60s through to the 80s and quite rightly places him alongside better-known West Coast record producers such as Lou Adler

With 22 symphonies