Vertigo: Jean Rondeau plays Royer & Rameau

Klasyczna Muzyka Barokowa
premiera polska: 2016-02-19
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Francja
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editors's info:
France’s leading young harpsichordist performs works by two masters of the French Baroque. No surprises there, perhaps … but the harpsichordist in question is Jean Rondeau and the album is called Vertigo. It conceives the harpsichord in vividly theatrical terms. Vertigo takes its name from a dramatic, rhapsodic piece by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, who, along with Jean-Philippe Rameau, forms the focus of this album. If Rameau (1683–1764) is the better-known composer today, especially admired for such operatic masterpieces as Hippolyte et Aricie and Platée, the younger Royer (1705–1755) was also a major figure in his time, rising to become master of music at the court of Louis XV. Both Rameau and Royer excelled in keyboard music and in works for the stage. As Jean Rondeau says: “These two illustrious composers battled for the top spot at the Opéra.” He describes them as “two magicians, two master architects, amongst the most wildly imaginative and brilliant of their era … Two composers who also tried to capture echoes of grand theatre with the palette offered by their keyboard.”

In November 2015, Rondeau was named Solo Classical Instrumentalist of the Year by the Académie Charles Cros when he received its Grand Prix, France’s most prestigious award for classical recordings. That was for his first Warner Classics album, Imagine, which he described as “an exploration of all the possibilities that lie in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and in the harpsichord.” BBC Music Magazine clearly enjoyed the discovery, saying: “Rondeau is a natural communicator, unimpeded by the imperative to score academic points ... Make no mistake – this is an auspicious debut.”

BBC Music Magazine * * * *
[Rondeau's] performance of Le vertigo is a thing of pugilistic wonder, flouncing around like an operatic diva succumbing to a hissy fit…he cuts a virtuosic swathe through Royer’s Marche des scythes, and tantalises with Tambourins…the opening Prélude [of Les niais de Sologne] is elaborated with a languid soulfulness ever alert to Rameau’s anguished harmonies

Gramophone Magazine
Rondeau has developed an affinity for [the harpsichord] and a comfort in its presence that allow him to see in it its possibilities rather than its limitations…his agile and rock-solid finger technique means that Rameau's Les Niais de Sologne and Royer's La marche des Scythes can thrill as they should while never trampling on the gorgeous deep tone of the magnificent instrument…there is no doubt that he is a player of immense ability from whom we reasonably may hope for much

muzycy:
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord

utwory:
1. Rameau: Premier livre de pièces de Clavecin, (1706), Suite in A Minor, RCT 1: No. 1 Prélude
2. Royer: Pièces pour clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 12 Allemande
3. Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in D Major, RCT 3: No. 1 Les Tendres Plaintes - Rondeau
4. Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in D Major, RCT 3: No. 2 Les Niais de Sologne - Doubles des Niais - Autre Double
5. Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in D Major, RCT 3: No. 6 L'Entretien des Muses
6. Royer: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 3 Les Matelots
7. Royer: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 4 Tambourins: Premier Tambourin (Suite des Matelots) & Deuxième Tambourin
8. Royer: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 11 Le Vertigo
9. Royer: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 2 La Zaïde
10. Royer: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 14 La Marche, des Scythes
11. Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (1727), Suite in A Minor, RCT 5: No. 3 Sarabande
12. Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: No. 7 Musette en rondeau
13. Rameau: Pièces de clavecin (1724), Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: No. 8 Tambourin
14. Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (1727), Suite in G Major, RCT 6: No. 3. Menuet I - Menuet II
15. Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin (1727), Suite in G Major, RCT 6: No. 14 Les Sauvages
16. Royer: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 (1746): No. 6 L'Aimable

total time - 72:03
wydano: 2016-02-19
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