A late Opera career
Donald Macleod surveys Rameau’s new career as a composer for the stage, at a time when Rameau had not long turned fifty years old.
Donald Macleod surveys Rameau’s new career as a composer for the stage, at a time when Rameau had not long turned fifty years old. Some applauded Rameau’s stage works and perceived music in France to be going in new directions, whereas some criticised Rameau for his dissonances and pedantry, championing instead the music of Lully.
Deus noster refugium
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (La Poule)
Bertrand Cuiller, harpsichord
Hippolyte et Aricie (Overture)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset, director
Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 1, excerpt)
Anne-Marie Panzarella (Aricie), soprano
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
Suite Les Indes Galantes (Prologue, excerpt)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen, conductor
Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (Les sauvages)
Christophe Rousset, harpsichord
Dardanus (Act 1, excerpt)
Judith van Wanroji (Iphise), soprano
Chantal Santon Jeffery (une Phrygienne), soprano
Thomas Dolié (Teucer), baritone
Tassis Christoyannis (Antenor), baritone
Clément Debieuvre (Arcas), tenor
Purcell Choir
Orfeo Orchestra
György Vashegyi, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock
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