ALBUMRameau: Achante et CéphiseSabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, David Witczak, Judith Van Wanroij, Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko
ALBUMOrpheus. Hommage à Saint-SaënsTrio Zadig
ALBUMMarcelle Meyer plays Rameau: Suites, Livre & PiècesMarcelle Meyer
ALBUMRameau triomphantMathias Vidal, Gaétan Jarry & Marguerite Louise
ALBUMRameau: Maladroitement RicheOrchestre de Saint-Christol
ALBUMBirdsElina Mustonen
ALBUMRameau: Les Indes GalantesLa Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet, Emmanuelle De Negri, Mathias Vidal, Ana Quintans & Julie Roset
ALBUMDebussy: Suite bergamesque, L. 75 - Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin, Suite en LaNatacha Melkonian
ALBUMRameau: Suites, No. 1Les Harpistes du Comtat, Clara de l’Isle & Juliette d’Entraigues
ALBUMGluck, Rameau: Orchestral SuitesSir Charles Mackerras
ALBUMRameau: Dardanus, RCT 35 (Revised 1744 Version)Judith Van Wanroij, Cyrille Dubois, Thomas Dolié, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi
ALBUMDebussy, Liszt & Rameau: Piano WorksPhilippe Guilhon-Herbert
ALBUMRameau: Sublimiores infandamOrchestre Baroque d’Avignon & Lois de Crilhon
ALBUMRameau: Les BoréadesCollegium 1704, Václav Luks, Deborah Cachet, Caroline Weynants & Mathias Vidal
ALBUMConcerts Royaux -Baroque Flute Music II-Shigenori Kudo & Richard Siegel
ALBUMJean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, Cinq Pièces & La DauphineSteven Devine
ALBUMRameau & Couperin: Pièces pour clavierClément Lefebvre
Jean-Philippe Rameau's Popular Music Videos
Rameau: The Arts and the Hours (Arr. for Guitar by Michael Lewin)
Miloš Karadaglić
Rameau: Le Rappel des oiseaux
Víkingur Ólafsson
Rameau: Gavotte et six doubles, RCT 5/7: Gavotte
Bruce Liu
Pièces de clavecin en concerts / Quatrième concert: II. L'indiscrète (Live at Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli del Lingotto, Turin / 2017)
Grigory Sokolov
Rameau: Air pour les Sauvages (for clarinet, piano & double bass)
Martin Fröst
Rameau: Cinquième concert: 2. La Cupis
Víkingur Ólafsson
Rameau, Ólafsson: The Arts and the Hours
Víkingur Ólafsson
Rameau: Les cyclopes, RCT 3/8 (Arr. Grizard for Guitar)
Raphaël Feuillâtre
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin, Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: V. Le Rappel des Oiseaux
Constance Luzzati
Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: V. Le Rappel des oiseaux (Live)
Grigory Sokolov
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Jean-Philippe Rameau Essentials
Sparkling dramatic works and keyboard pieces from a French Baroque titan.
About Jean-Philippe Rameau
Artist Biography
As France’s leading 18th-century composer, Rameau had a strangely unbalanced career. Born in Dijon in 1683, he matured slowly, finding fame only in his early forties as a music theorist and keyboard composer. Then, at the age of 50, he launched a theatrical career which produced around 30 outstanding entertainments, covering a range of stage forms from opera to ballet; by 1749, his works dominated the Paris Opera. His originality came as a shock but he also had great breadth, finding a comic style for the opera-ballet Platée (1745) about a frog-like nymph who thinks she’s irresistible to men, and painting deep and complex characters in his final tragedy, Les Boréades (1763). Throughout these works, Rameau emerges as one of the greatest orchestrators of the Baroque. His only chamber music—the Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts (1741)—experiments with the trio sonata, making the harpsichord the centre of attention by granting it a fully written-out part. In his harpsichord pieces, he excelled at colourful, atmospheric effects, as well as characterising famous personalities and depicting exotic images, like the swirling dust storm of “Les Tourbillons”. He died in 1764.
Hometown
Dijon, France
Genre
Classical
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