Franck Pourcel
Vacances au XVIIIe Siecle (LP)
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light foxing inside gatefold)
Gatefold sleeve. Obi included.
One of the odder concept albums of the seventies: Franck Pourcel takes eighteenth-century themes, Bach, Handel, Mozart, and rebuilds them as pop, harpsichord and strings over drums and bass, a decade after Switched-On Bach and in the same season as Waldo de los Ríos's Mozart Symphony No. 40 was topping charts. Pourcel's classical training makes the difference; the counterpoint is respected even when the drummer is not.
The title ("Holidays in the Eighteenth Century") tells you the intended mood: baroque as a place to visit. For the musique légère completist, and for anyone tracking the baroque-pop fad that ran from Procol Harum to Wendy Carlos to this. EMI/Odeon, EOS prefix.
| A1 | Badinerie En Mi Majeur | ||
| A2 | Finale | ||
| A3 | Aria | ||
| A4 | Finale | ||
| A5 | Largo | ||
| A6 | Dadinerie | ||
| B1 | Allegro | ||
| B2 | Trumpet Voluntary | ||
| B3 | La Chasse | ||
| B4 | Sarabande | ||
| B5 | Didon Et Enee | ||
| B6 | Menuet | ||
| B7 | Tambourin |
