Societe Violes et Clavecin, Deuxieme Concert Royal: Prelude
Allemande fuguee. Air tendre. Air contre-fugue. Echos (Couperin)
Wanda Landowska (harpsichord): Passacaille (Couperin)

Nationality in music is an elusive quality, going far deeper than interest in folk music (which seems to be looked upon by some people as the only hall-mark of nationalism). It is almost impossible to say just what it is that is so essentially French in the charming, delicate art of Francois Couperin.
We only know that we recognise it again in the music of Debussy and Ravel two centuries later - and nowhere else.