- Artist:
- Mishka Rushdie Momen
Hall of Mirrors
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Release date: September 11, 2026
Mishka Rushdie Momen’s Hyperion debut, ‘Reformation’, topped the UK Classical Chart, won acclaim from critics and listeners worldwide and was named one of the Times’ Albums of the Year. For her second album, she turns from England to France, placing the court of Louis XIV and the dazzling musical world of Versailles centre stage.
The Sun King’s palace was far more than a royal residence: it was a showcase of cultural and political influence, alive with concerts, dance and magnificent spectacle. Louis XIV was no mere observer, but an accomplished ballet dancer and musician.
Mishka explores keyboard works by François Couperin, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and Jean-Philippe Rameau. Couperin’s warm, brilliant musical language, conceived for the vast spaces of Versailles, takes on a distinctive richness on the modern grand piano. Jacquet de La Guerre, hailed by her contemporaries as ‘the marvel of our age’, brings French elegance together with vivid Italianate drama in her richly ornamented Suite in G minor.
The album concludes with Rameau’s strikingly original Suite in E minor, where courtly dances meet Scottish- or Irish-style gigues and imaginative character pieces such as ‘Le rappel des oiseaux’—often translated as ‘a conference of the birds’.
Tracklisting:
Couperin
1. Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 - 4e Ordre No 4: Le Réveil-matin
2. L’art de Toucher le Clavecin - No 1: Premier Prélude
3. Pièces de clavecin, Book 3 - 18e Ordre No 6: Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou les Maillotins
4. Pièces de clavecin, Book 4 - 25e Ordre No 5: Les ombres errantes
5. L’art de Toucher le Clavecin - No 8: Huitième Prélude
Rameau: Suite in E minor - Movement
6. 1: Allemande
7. 2: Courante
8. 3a: Gigue en rondeau I
9. 3b: Gigue en rondeau II
10. 4: Le rappel des oiseaux
11. 5: Rigaudons I, II & double
12. 6: Musette en rondeau
13. 7: Tambourin
14. 8: La villageoise (rondeau)
Jacquet: Suite No 2 in G minor - No
15. 1: Prélude
16. 2: Allemande
17. 3: Courante I
18. 4: Courante II
19. 5: Sarabande
20. 6: Gigue I
21. 7: Gigue II
22. 8: Menuet & double
Couperin
23. Pièces de clavecin, Book 4 - 22e Ordre No 6: Les tours de passe-passe
24. L’art de Toucher le Clavecin - No 6: Sixième Prélude
25. Pièces de clavecin, Book 3 - 14e Ordre No 6: Le carillon de Cithère
26. Quatrième concert royal - Movement 7: Forlane: Rondeau