Hall of Mirrors Mishka Rushdie Momen

• François Couperin (1668 - 1733): Pièces de clavecin, Livre I Ordre 4:
• 1 Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Livre I Ordre 4: IV. Le réveil-matin 03:12
• L'art de toucher le clavecin:
• 2 Couperin: L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prélude No. 1 in C Major 01:32
• Pièces de clavecin, Livre III Ordre 18:
• 3 Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Livre III Ordre 18: VI. Le tic-toc-choc ou Les maillotins 02:26
• Pièces de clavecin, Livre IV Ordre 25:
• 4 Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Livre IV Ordre 25: V. Les ombres errantes 04:55
• L'art de toucher le clavecin:
• 5 Couperin: L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prélude No. 8 in E Minor 01:43
• Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764): Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2:
• 6 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: I. Allemande 04:08
• 7 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: II. Courante 01:54
• 8 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: IIIa. Gigue en rondeau I 01:54
• 9 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: IIIb. Gigue en rondeau II 02:12
• 10 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: IV. Le rappel des oiseaux 02:28
• 11 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: V. Rigaudons I, II & Double 01:24
• 12 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: VI. Musette en rondeau 02:47
• 13 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: VII. Tambourin 01:23
• 14 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: VIII. La villageoise. Rondeau 02:27
• Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665 - 1729): Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor:
• 15 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: I. Prélude 02:22
• 16 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: II. Allemande 02:06
• 17 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: III. Courante I 01:52
• 18 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: IV. Courante II 01:54
• 19 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: V. Sarabande 02:37
• 20 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: VI. Gigue I 01:45
• 21 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: VII. Gigue II 02:13
• 22 Jacquet de La Guerre: Pièces de clavecin I, Suite No. 2 in G Minor: VIII. Menuet & Double 01:56
• François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Livre IV Ordre 22:
• 23 Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Livre IV Ordre 22: VII. Les tour de passe-passe 02:40
• L'art de toucher le clavecin:
• 24 Couperin: L'art de toucher le clavecin: Prélude No. 6 in B Minor 02:19
• Pièces de clavecin, Livre III Ordre 14:
• 25 Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Livre III Ordre 14: VII. Le carillon de Cithére 04:54
• Les concerts royaux, Concert No. 4:
• 26 Couperin: Les concerts royaux, Concert No. 4: VII. Forlane en rondeau. Gayement 02:52
• Total Runtime 01:03:55

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Mishka Rushdie Momen’s Hyperion debut, ‘Reformation’, topped the UK Classical Chart, won acclaim from critics and listeners worldwide and was named one of the Times’ Albums of the Year. For her second album, she turns from England to France, placing the court of Louis XIV and the dazzling musical world of Versailles centre stage.

The Sun King’s palace was far more than a royal residence: it was a showcase of cultural and political influence, alive with concerts, dance and magnificent spectacle. Louis XIV was no mere observer, but an accomplished ballet dancer and musician.

Mishka explores keyboard works by François Couperin, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and Jean-Philippe Rameau. Couperin’s warm, brilliant musical language, conceived for the vast spaces of Versailles, takes on a distinctive richness on the modern grand piano. Jacquet de La Guerre, hailed by her contemporaries as ‘the marvel of our age’, brings French elegance together with vivid Italianate drama in her richly ornamented Suite in G minor.

The album concludes with Rameau’s strikingly original Suite in E minor, where courtly dances meet Scottish- or Irish-style gigues and imaginative character pieces such as ‘Le rappel des oiseaux’—often translated as ‘a conference of the birds’.

Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano

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Mishka Rushdie Momen
born in London 1992, studied with Joan Havill and Imogen Cooper at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has also studied with Richard Goode and Sir Andras Schiff, who presented her in recitals in Zurich Tonhalle, New York’s 92Y, Antwerp deSingel, and several cities in Germany and Italy for his 2016-17 “Building Bridges” Series. A committed chamber musician whose partners have included Steven Isserlis, Midori, Daniel Phillips, and members of the Endellion, Belcea, and Artemis String Quartets, she played in the 2016 Marlboro and Krzyzowa Music Festivals and regularly participates in Open Chamber Music at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. She performed in the “Chamber Music Connects the World” Festival in Kronberg in May.

She released her first commercial recording in 2017 produced by Somm Recordings to critical acclaim, appearing as one of the soloists in Mozart’s Triple Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Her first solo recording, "Variations", was released in September on the same label. In 2014 Mishka Rushdie Momen was unanimously voted the 1st Prize winner of the Dudley International Piano Competition and performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra . In the same year she won 2nd Prize at the Cologne International Piano Competition.

Mishka has given solo recitals at the Barbican Hall, the Bridgewater Hall, and major venues across the UK, as well as abroad in New York City, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and India. This season includes debut performances at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and at the Haydn Festival in Austria.

She is currently studying at the Kronberg Academy as part of the Sir András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Pianists. This study is funded by the Henle Foundation.

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