MATTHIAS WECKMANN (1616-1674): Toccatas in E Minor and in D Minor, Partita in B Minor, Toccata vel Praeludium in D Minor, Canzone in C Minor and in D Minor, HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN (c.1595-1663): Benedicam Domino, FRANZ TUNDER (1614-1667): Praeludium in D Minor, JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER (1616-1667): Ricercare XI in D Minor, CHRISTIAN RITTER (1645?-1725?): Suite in C Minor, Sonatina in D Minor.

Description: For this second part of his anthology of seventeenth-century German harpsichord music, Yoann Moulin takes as his starting point the famous competition organized when Weckmann and Froberger met at the court of Dresden. It was in the 1650s that the influences of the French style were grafted onto models drawn from Italian music. The compositions of this period appear to us in their infinite variety, as illustrated here by the notion of stylus luxurians. Yoann Moulin (harpsichord).