Description
Francis Dieupart, Concerto in A minor for Soprano Recorder and Keyboard Reduction. Edited by David Lasocki. Keyboard reduction by Robert Paul Block. Originally published by Zen-On, Tokyo, 1976. Republished with a postscript by Instant Harmony, São Paulo, Brazil, 2024.
Dieupart was a French harpsichordist and composer who spent most of his working life in England, playing in concerts and for the theatre. He is best known for his harpsichord suites, which also exist in a version for recorder and basso continuo. This concerto, which survives in a manuscript from the Dresden Court, was probably the one performed by the leading recorder player John Baston in a theatre intermission in 1722. It has an unusual opening movement based on a single motive, a partially florid slow movement, and a sprightly final gigue
