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Rameau - Suite in E minor, Suite in G minor, Suite in A minor | Hyperion CDA67597

Rameau - Suite in E minor, Suite in G minor, Suite in A minor

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67597

Barcode: 0034571175973

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd January 2007

Penguin Guide 4 stars

Contents

Artists

Angela Hewitt (piano)

Works

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin
» Suite in A minor
» Suite in G major/G minor
Pieces de clavecin: Deuxieme Suite in E minor

Artists

Angela Hewitt (piano)

About

This disc takes multi-award-winning Baroque legend Angela Hewitt to the elegantly refined French court of the early eighteenth century.
 
Jean-Philippe Rameau topped the summit of the Musical Establishment - named Compositeur du Cabinet du Roi in 1745 - yet his pedigree was hardly auspicious. For a time a travelling violinist, he held numerous undistinguished posts as provincial organist (rarely serving out his contract and on one occasion deliberately playing sufficiently badly to ensure his dismissal) before finally settling in Paris at the age of forty.
 
Something of a theorist - his treatise 'On the Technique of the Fingers on the Harpsichord' makes for essential reading - Rameau’s intellectualism combines in his music to produce passion and tenderness, in his own words ‘true music … the language of the heart’. Some sixty keyboard works are known, gathered by key into five suites; Hewitt here performs three of them.
 
Courtly dances (including the famous Tambourin) sit alongside more programmatic movements (such as Les sauvages - Rameau had just seen two Louisiana Indians performing at the theatre) in these engaging and deceptively catchy miniatures.
 
Admirers of Angela Hewitt’s acclaimed Bach and Couperin recordings will need no encouragement to sample these new delights. Angela Hewitt was named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards 2006, capping a year of unparalleled success and recognition.

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