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Angela Hewitt - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2007)  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 15, 2022
Angela Hewitt - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2007)

Angela Hewitt - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 256 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 192 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67597 | Time: 01:18:16

Rameau on the piano? It's not altogether unheard of – there were a handful of classic recordings made by Robert Casadesus back in 1952 – but, despite many recordings of Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti on the piano in the digital age, there's been precious little Rameau on the piano until this Angela Hewitt recording of three complete suites from 2006. By choosing the Suite in E minor from the Pièces de clavecin of 1731 plus the Suites in G minor and A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Hewitt has for the most part stayed away from the more evocatively titled works and stuck to the standard stylized Baroque dance forms of the allemande, courante, and gigue. Justly celebrated for her cool and clean Bach recordings, this strategy works well for Hewitt. Without seeming to resort to the sustain or the mute pedal, she floats Rameau's lines and melodies, and without seeming to exaggerate the accents or dynamics, she gives Rameau's rhythms a wonderful sense of lift. In the deliberately evocative movements from the G minor Suite – "La poule," "Les sauvages," and especially "L'egiptienne" – Hewitt seems to bring less to the music – her interpretations are remarkably straight – and to get less out of it – her performances are remarkably bland.
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon - Rameau: Dardanus & Le temple de la gloire (2003)

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon - Rameau: Dardanus & Le temple de la gloire (2003)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:12 | 365 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CBC Records | Catalog: CMCD 5229

No opera composer of the Baroque era invested his stage works with more imaginative orchestral music than Jean-Philippe Rameau. The adventurous wind orchestration, rhythmic drive and variety, and complex interplay of voices found in his interludes, dances, and preludes are immediately striking to modern ears in a way that only the dedicated orchestral works of other Baroque masters can match (think Handel's Royal Fireworks Music, for example).
Jeune Orchestre Rameau & Bruno Procopio - Rameau: Concerts en Sextuor (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Jeune Orchestre Rameau & Bruno Procopio - Rameau: Concerts en Sextuor (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 25:48 minutes | 312 MB
Classical | Label: Paraty, Official Digital Download

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.
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.
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Rameau: In Convertendo (2006)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Rameau: In Convertendo (2006)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Latin (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 6.45 Gb (DVD9) | 97 min
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

Jean-Philippe Rameau was still a young musician when he moved to Lyon, where he probably composed his few surviving motets, including the Grand Motet In Convertendo, here performed by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, which anticipates Rameau’s orchestration in his later operatic works. The wonderful fugue on Psalm 126 (verse 6) Euntes ibant et flebant (They went forth and wept) bears comparison with similar works by his contemporary, J. S. Bach.
Jeune Orchestre Rameau & Bruno Procopio - Guerre et Paix (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Jeune Orchestre Rameau & Bruno Procopio - Guerre et Paix (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 30:23 minutes | 340 MB
Classical | Label: Paraty, Official Digital Download

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.
Jeune Orchestre Rameau & Bruno Procopio - Rameau: Concerts en Sextuor (2023)

Jeune Orchestre Rameau & Bruno Procopio - Rameau: Concerts en Sextuor (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 158 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 60 Mb | 00:25:48
Classical | Label: Paraty

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.
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau (2014)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 417 Mb | Total time: 81:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Éditions Arts Florissants | # AF002 | Recorded: 2013

With Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau, William Christie invites us to take a pleasant walk in the beautiful garden of French vocal music from the XVIIIth Century. Featured composers include Rameau and his contemporaries, and the repertoire ranges from opera highlights and profane cantatas to instrumental interludes. Christie's program presents a vivid overview of the music that was played in Versailles at the peak of its splendor. The album's vocal soloists are young singers who took part in Le Jardin des Voix (The Garden of Voices) - a biannual musical academy led by William Christie and Paul Agnew that is designed to unveil the most promising talents of the coming generation.
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.
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Platée (1990)

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Platée (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 853 Mb | Total time: 135 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45028-2 | Recorded: 1989

Platée was one of the most highly regarded of Rameau's operas during his lifetime. It even pleased critics who had expressed hostility to his musical style during the Querelle des Bouffons (an argument over the relative merits of French and Italian opera). Melchior Grimm called it a "sublime work" and even Rameau's bitter enemy Jean-Jacques Rousseau referred to it as "divine". The reason for this praise may be because these critics saw Platée, a comic opera, paving the way for the lighter form of opera buffa they favoured.