ALBUMRameau: Achante et CéphiseSabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, David Witczak, Judith Van Wanroij, Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko
ALBUMOrpheus. Hommage à Saint-SaënsTrio Zadig
ALBUMMarcelle Meyer plays Rameau: Suites, Livre & PiècesMarcelle Meyer
ALBUMRameau triomphantMathias Vidal, Gaétan Jarry & Marguerite Louise
ALBUMRameau: Maladroitement RicheOrchestre de Saint-Christol
ALBUMBirdsElina Mustonen
ALBUMRameau: Les Indes GalantesLa Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet, Emmanuelle De Negri, Mathias Vidal, Ana Quintans & Julie Roset
ALBUMDebussy: Suite bergamesque, L. 75 - Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin, Suite en LaNatacha Melkonian
ALBUMRameau: Suites, No. 1Les Harpistes du Comtat, Clara de l’Isle & Juliette d’Entraigues
ALBUMGluck, Rameau: Orchestral SuitesSir Charles Mackerras
ALBUMRameau: Dardanus, RCT 35 (Revised 1744 Version)Judith Van Wanroij, Cyrille Dubois, Thomas Dolié, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi
ALBUMDebussy, Liszt & Rameau: Piano WorksPhilippe Guilhon-Herbert
ALBUMRameau: Sublimiores infandamOrchestre Baroque d’Avignon & Lois de Crilhon
ALBUMRameau: Les BoréadesCollegium 1704, Václav Luks, Deborah Cachet, Caroline Weynants & Mathias Vidal
Sparkling dramatic works and keyboard pieces from a French Baroque titan.
About Jean-Philippe Rameau
Artist Biography
As France’s leading 18th-century composer, Rameau had a strangely unbalanced career. Born in Dijon in 1683, he matured slowly, finding fame only in his early forties as a music theorist and keyboard composer. Then, at the age of 50, he launched a theatrical career which produced around 30 outstanding entertainments, covering a range of stage forms from opera to ballet; by 1749, his works dominated the Paris Opera. His originality came as a shock but he also had great breadth, finding a comic style for the opera-ballet Platée (1745) about a frog-like nymph who thinks she’s irresistible to men, and painting deep and complex characters in his final tragedy, Les Boréades (1763). Throughout these works, Rameau emerges as one of the greatest orchestrators of the Baroque. His only chamber music—the Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts (1741)—experiments with the trio sonata, making the harpsichord the center of attention by granting it a fully written-out part. In his harpsichord pieces, he excelled at colorful, atmospheric effects, as well as characterizing famous personalities and depicting exotic images, like the swirling dust storm of “Les Tourbillons.” He died in 1764.
Genre
Classical
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