Duphly: Complete Works for Harpsichord

The first complete recording of Duphly's four Books of Pièces de Clavecin (1744–1768) on two of the world's great surviving French harpsichords — the 1707 Nicolas Dumont and the 1768 Joannes Goermans, both restored by John Phillips and held at the Flint Collection in Delaware.

Baumont’s first project for Plectra and the first complete-Duphly cycle since the early-period editions of the 1990s. Three CDs, recorded across April 2024 and April 2025 in Delaware at French pitch (a¹ = 392 Hz), alternating between Dumont (1707) and Goermans (1768) — both genuine period instruments rather than modern copies, both restored by John Phillips of Berkeley.

The booklet — by Baumont himself — restores Duphly the portraitist: of the painter Carle Van Loo (La Vanlo), of Madame Duhallay’s Paris salon (La Tribolet), of the pastel master Maurice Quentin de La Tour (La de La Tour), of the harpsichordist Anne-Jeanne Boucon (La Boucon), of the viola player Antoine Forqueray (La Forqueray) — and finally of the dying ancien régime itself in La Pothouïn, the descending-chromatic rondeau that reads as a tombeau for a school he outlived by months.

Martin Davids of Brandywine Baroque joins for the six violin-and- harpsichord pieces of the Troisième Livre (1756).