Rameau Acante Cephise Cossenko

Rameau's music has yet to be discovered, several of his operas are still unpublished," says Bruno Procopio. Our initiative is to bring these works to light thanks to the Jeune Orchestre Rameau (Jor). Its mission is also to become a professional integration orchestra, by organizing concerts and tours in addition to the week of the Academy, also to promote the creation of new works, professional training, to offer a platform international network and to make recordings via the Paraty record label, distributed by Pias Harmonia Mundi.

Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933. She became a naturalized French citizen in 1938.

Christophe Rousset - Marchand, Rameau (2012) {Ambronay}
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Classical / Baroque / Harpsichord / Keyboard

This recording by fine French harpsichordist Christophe Rousset exposes some music from beyond the famous names of the French Baroque. The central attraction is a pair of suites and three characteristic pieces by Louis Marchand, an organist at Versailles who is famous in musical history for having supposedly ducked an organ duel with J.S. Bach. His two suites recorded here were composed in 1702 and 1706, and thus are almost contemporary with the early Rameau Suite in A minor (1706), from his first book of keyboard suites. All the suites consist of a rhythmically free, quasi-improvised prelude followed by a series of stylized dances; three short character pieces by Marchand are also included as a sort of entr'acte.

Jory Vinikour's two discs of the keyboard works of Rameau actually contain more than Rameau himself published, including a barn-burner of a finale. In addition to Rameau's five published suites, Vinikour included Rameau's transcriptions for solo harpsichord of selections from the chamber work Pièces de clavecin en Concert; a couple of pieces published separately from Rameau's collections; a piece ascribed to Rameau; and a transcription by Claude Balbastre – another keyboard wizard of the age – of the overture to Pigmalion.