Rameau Update

Noëlle Spieth
Rameau, Pièces de clavecin de 1741
Eloquentia - EL0920 - 1CD2009
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Joël Pontet
Rameau, Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de clavecin
La Dauphine
Saphir Productions - 1 CD2010

Concert :
February 11, 2010 - 8:30 pm
L'Archipel - Paris
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Anne Sofie Von Otter
Ombre de mon amant - french baroque arias
(Charpentier, Lambert, Rameau)
William Christie & Les Arts Florissants
Archiv - 1 CD2010
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Rameau, Complete Works for Harpsichord
Musica Amphion
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
Rémy Baudet, baroque violin
Rainer Zipperling, gamba
Brilliant Classics - BRIL93903 - 3CD2009
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Arts Flo Media - Bookmark it !

Les Arts Florissants, who played a leading part in the rediscovery and the revival of baroque music and who are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, have decided to put their archives on line.
The launch of their multimedia web site, Arts Flo Media, is planned for January 2010. The site will provide various documents, like videos, unpublished scores, pictures, and even live concerts and performances.

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LAF's current web site : Les Arts Florissants
(Talking about archives, Harmonia Mundi has just reissued LAF's historical recording of Lully's Atys.)

Portrait of Rameau Uncovered

A supposed portrait of Jean-Philippe Rameau
by Jean-Baptiste Van Loo (studio)

The score on the table tells us the man is a musician. After close examination and comparison with the other portraits of Rameau, I find the man on the picture and Rameau share so many distinctive features that the chances are high that they are the same person.
The portrait was unveiled in the booklet of Hugo Reyne & La Simphonie du Marais latest recording : Rameau - Concerts mis en Simphonie.

A word about the recording. Hugo Reyne gives a transcription for orchestra of the Concerts de Pièces de clavecin (1741), a series of character pieces Rameau composed for three instruments (harpsichord, violin, & viola or a second violin or a flute). It's a very convincing transcription which makes for an enjoyable listening experience, although I would have liked more verve in the performance at some moments.

Rameau - Recordings

Suite from Les Fêtes d'Hébé
Suite from Les Indes galantes
The Aulos Ensemble
Centaur - CEN2970 - 2009
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Concerts mis en Symphonie
Orchestral version of the harpsichord pieces (1741)
(collection Rameau - vol. 2)
La Simphonie du Marais & Hugo Reyne
Musique à la Chabotterie - 605006 - 2009
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Pièces de Clavecin en concerts
Ensemble Baroque Nouveau
Reference Recordings - RR118 HDCD - 2009
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Nouvelles Suites de clavecin
Susan Toman, harpsichord
Centaur - CEN2940 - 2008
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French Album
Rameau, Debussy, Ravel, Franck
Nikolai Tokarev, piano
Sony Classical - 88697341452 - 2009
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Rameau - New Recordings

Rameau - Dardanus

A Pinchgut Opera (Sydney) production, recorded in 2005.
Featuring Paul Agnew, Paul Whelan, Kathryn McCusker,Stephen Bennett, Damian Whiteley and the Orchestra of the Antipodes under Antony Walker.

ABC Classics - 2CD
Find details on the production, the cast, the plot, MP3 samplers, on the Pinchgut Opera Site

Already available in some countries (at least, I guess, for I found it on the internet). It'll be released in France on March 12.
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Rameau - Que les mortels servent de modèle aux dieux...
Extracts from Zoroastre & Zaïs

Eugénie Warnier, Arnaud Richard, Ensemble Ausonia
Frédérick Haas

Alpha - 1CD

March 12, 2009

Sounds very promising...
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Rameau - Les Indes Galantes

Christophe Rousset

Ambroisie-La Cité de la Musique - 1CD
March 24, 2009

The recording is part of a series which aim is to introduce the Musée de la Musique prestigious historical instruments.
I haven't yet found any information about the recording, but it's likely to be the Suite des Indes Galantes recorded by Rousset on the Jean-Henry Hemsch harpsichord (1761, E.974.3.1) on January 21, 2001.

Coming next in the series :
Sandrine Chatron, Works from the time of Marie-Antoinette - Erard harp (1788).

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Reissue

Rameau - Anacréon & Le Berger fidèle

Originally released on Archiv (1996)

Véronique Gens - Annick Massis - Thierry Félix - Rodrigo del Pozo
Les Musiciens du Louvre - Marc Minkowski
Brilliant Classics: BRIL93930 - 5028421939308 - 1 CD
March 12, 2009