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Auriacombe Louis - Couperin (HMV ALP 2080) 1963

by: Auriacombe Louis, cond.; Toulouse Chamber Orch.

Publication date: 1963-07

Topics: LP mono, Auriacombe Louis, HMV, Couperin François, Toulouse Chamber Orch.

Louis Auriacombe (Pau, 22.02.1917 - Toulouse, 03.12.1982): French conductor, singer and violinist. Studied singing and violin in Toulouse, the city with which he was connected all his life. He won a Premier Prix for piano.

1940: Sang Rudolfo in La Bohème, with Ninon Vallin as Mimi.

1940-1945: Captured by the Germans.

Gave up his singing career, started as a violinist in the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Toulouse.

1951-1956: Studied conducting with Igor Markevitch

1957-1968: assistant to Igor Markevitch

1953: Founded the Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse, with which he performed in Europe, Russia and the United States.

1971: due to a brain haemorrhage he fell into a coma, until his death in 1982.

François Couperin:

1 Apothéose de Lulli (1725)

2 Le Parnasse ou l'Apothéose de Corelli (1724)

3 Dixième concerto in a "Les goûts réunis" (1724)

Toulouse Chamber Orchestra conducted by Louis Auriacombe

LP 30 cm: HMV ALP 2080

Recording 1963 07 13,16+17