Jean Philippe Rameau • Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts

London Baroque - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pieces de clavecin en concerts (2003)

London Baroque - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 425 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 363 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1385 | Time: 01:07:00

Vivaldi, Handel, Purcel, J.S. Bach and now Rameau: London Baroque is proceeding through the Baroque Masters at an impressive pace. After acclaimed recordings of the Fantazias of Purcell and Bach's trio sonatas the turn has come to Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts, Jean-Philippe Rameau's important collection of chamber music works. The title (Concert pieces for harpsichord) is actually misleading, for although the harpsichord does play an important role throughout, the violin and viola da gamba are indispensable. Here London Baroque members Ingrid Seifert, Charles Medlam and Terence Charlston again prove their almost uncanny ability to play as one. Being mainly famous for his operas and stage works, Rameau in his Pièces has created a series of character pieces of which many are portraits of friends and acquaintances of the composer. Among the titles are the names and colleagues such as Marais and Forqueray but there is also a delightful self-portrait in La Rameau. A kaleidoscopic journey through the artistic circles of Paris in 1740, which can only be recommended.
Mahan Esfahani - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pieces de clavecin (2014) 2CDs

Mahan Esfahani - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (2014) 2CD
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 801 Mb | Artwork included | Time: 02:08:24
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68071/2

Gramophone-Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani has recorded Rameau's Pièces de clavecin in the historic setting of the Music Room at Hatchlands Park in Surrey. This is a masterclass for the instrument, confirming this young artist as a truly great player: in the words of International Record Review his technique is beyond criticism and his inherent musicianship goes far deeper than mere surface understanding it is difficult not to warm to such a musician'. This double album comprises the whole of Rameau's output of keyboard suites, and Esfahani rejoices in its wealth of genius, its excitement and drama. Rameau is a composer whose revival is ongoing, and his unique combination of the witty and the cerebral, the light and the curmudgeonly, abounds throughout his harpsichord music.
Aapo Häkkinen, Petri Tapio Mattson, Mikko Perkola - Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts (2011)

Aapo Häkkinen, Petri Tapio Mattson, Mikko Perkola - Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 66:25 | 473 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Alba Records | Catalog: ABCD 318

I’ve become increasingly fond of Aapo Häkkinen’s recording of the Goldberg Variations since reviewing it in 2009, and I was therefore more than happy to see his name appearing against some further favourite repertoire. Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concerts were written and published when his reputation as a composer of opera was already well established, and the nature of the music follows patterns which might relate to Couperin’s Concerts royaux and composers such as Mondonville.
Rachel Podger, Jonathan Manson, Trevor Pinnock – Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (2003)

Rachel Podger, Jonathan Manson, Trevor Pinnock – Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 66:53 | 465 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | Catalog: CCS SA 19002

The authority on Rameau in the Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians spent a lot of words on these pieces. All YOU have to know is that the usual "continuo" situation of the bass instrument playing the same notes as those found under the harpsichordist's left hand is not present here. This is not a suite with violin on top and bass viol for continuo - but "concerted" harpsichord pieces with the help of a violin and a bass viol. The first and last suites are my favorites, but if you think you like French baroque music, you will thoroughly enjoy the whole disc.
Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Alberto Rasi - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces De Clavecin En Concerts (2022)

Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Alberto Rasi - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces De Clavecin En Concerts (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:04:08 | 393 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

Following their recording of Bach's Kunst der Fuge, Alberto Rasi and his Accademia Strumentale Italiana take on a new challenge, recording the French masterpiece by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Fifteen years after his Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin, Rameau once again turns his attention to an instrumental work, for what will be the last time, inspired by the new potential for chamber music glimpsed in the use of the concertante keyboard. The 1741 collection is the only new work he produced between 1740 and 1744, before returning to the musical theatre to which he will dedicate the rest of his life.
Il Gardellino - Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts (2015) [Official Digital Download]

Vittorio Ghielmi - Forqueray Le Diable - Complete Pieces de Viole (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 64:01 minutes | 770 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

A l'instar des Corelli, Couperin ou Mondonville, Rameau reprenant ses pièces pour clavecin seul, à voulu dans ces transcriptions "en concerts" créer à partir d'un petit ensemble de chambre un effet chambriste, concertant, en tout cas, plus orchestral.
Rachel Podger, Trevor Pinnock, Jonathan Manson - J.PH. Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (2002) [Official 24bit/192kHz]

Rachel Podger,Trevor Pinnock,Jonathan Manson: J.PH. Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts (2002)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 66:48 minutes | 2,25 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 66:48 minutes | 1,29 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

One of the most striking features of Rameau’s only collection of ensemble chamber music is that it seems less a tantalising essay in what French chamber music might have yielded - had Jean-Philippe Rameau not sought the bright lights of opera - than a singularly inspired genre of musical images whose significance resides almost exclusively in its own inimitable terms. The magical elusiveness of these works, so deliberately enigmatic, encourages us to ponder the significance of titles such as ‘Le Vézinet’ (as it happens, a forested suburb of Paris with a pleasure garden). We may hear a glistening carrousel but Rameau’s aqueous imagery reflects unending shards of light to ravish our senses.
Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Symphonies à deux clavecins (2012)

Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Symphonies à deux clavecins (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 466 Mb | Total time: 74:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR164 | Recorded: 2011

The numerous instrumental pieces or 'Symphonies' found in the dramatic works of Rameau are remarkably effective on the harpsichord: the composer himself, with his transcription of 'Les Indes Galantes' invited other musicians to continue this tradition.
Seizing on the formidable array of material available in his operas: Platée, Zoroastre, Dardanus, Les Paladins, Pygmalion… Pierre Hantai and Skip Sempé, our finest exponents of this repertoire, take obvious pleasure in revealing, through the two harpsichords, the immense richness of this music, full of surprises and imagination.
Frédérick Haas - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (1999)

Frédérick Haas - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 507 Mb | Total time: 78:13 | Scans included
Classical | Calliope | CAL 9279 | Recorded: 1998

Formé au Sweelinck Conservatorium d’Amsterdam, au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles et à la Sorbonne à Paris, passionné par la facture des instruments anciens, imprégné de culture classique française et fasciné par le Japon, le claveciniste Frédérick Haas s’interroge sur le sens à donner aujourd’hui aux musiques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles en empruntant des chemins atypiques. Celui des croisements de cultures, des mises en regard, des expériences humaines et artistiques – "autant d’antidotes à certains stéréotypes véhiculés par l’approche dite “historiquement informée” d’aujourd’hui".
Blandine Rannou - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin seul et en concerts [4CDs] (2001)

Blandine Rannou - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin seul et en concerts (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.40 Gb | Total time: 03:50:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig Zag Territoires | # ZZT010301 | Recorded: 2000

Les mélomanes seront aux anges, à l'écoute de cette nouvelle version des Pièces de clavecin seul et en concert de Jean-Philippe Rameau, où de jeunes instrumentistes français réunis autour de la claveciniste Blandine Rannou y montrent une insolente santé musicale. Cette réalisation pétille de verdeur et d'enthousiasme, où la plénitude sonore est totale : les timbres sont bien équilibrés, et jamais on ne s'ennuie à l'audition de cet enregistrement dominé par Blandine Rannou – professeur de basse continue au conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris et claveciniste de l'ensemble Il Seminario Musicale. Un agréable moment musical en perspective.