Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Part One
Monday 19 November 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Monday 19 November 2007 20:45-21:45 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Monday 18 August 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
During his lifetime, Rameau was widely regarded as the greatest French composer of the age, yet within a few decades of his death, his music had fallen into neglect. It took a century for the Rameau revival to begin and almost as long again for him to be fully rehabilitated. Donald Macleod considers the composer's first 50 years, which for the most part are shrouded in mystery.
Playlist
Contredanse (La guirlande)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (conductor)
Erato 8573 85774-2
CD1 track 27
Prelude (Premier livre de pieces de clavecin)
Michel Kiener (harpsichord)
Harmonia Mundi HMI 987039.40
CD1 track 1
In convertendo
Sophie Daneman, Olga Pitarch (sopranos)
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor)
Nicolas Rivenq (bass-baritone)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (conductor)
Opus Arte DVD Cat No. OA 0956D
Le berger fidele
Veronique Gens (soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archive 449 211-2
CD 1 tracks 29-34
Les sauvages; La poule (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin)
William Christie (harpsichord)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901121
CD1 tracks 13 and 11
