To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Florence Malgoire and the period ensemble Les Dominos present the six Concerts en Sextuor, an anonymous arrangement of the Pièces de clavecin en concert and four pieces from the Nouvelles suites de clavecin. While there is disagreement about the authorship of the string version, presumed by some to have been prepared by Jacques-Joseph-Marie Decroix in 1768, the work has been part of the Rameau edition since Camille Saint-Saëns edited it in the late 19th ...
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To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Florence Malgoire and the period ensemble Les Dominos present the six Concerts en Sextuor, an anonymous arrangement of the Pièces de clavecin en concert and four pieces from the Nouvelles suites de clavecin. While there is disagreement about the authorship of the string version, presumed by some to have been prepared by Jacques-Joseph-Marie Decroix in 1768, the work has been part of the Rameau edition since Camille Saint-Saëns edited it in the late 19th century. However, where the 1768 transcription has six parts, using three violins, viola, cello, and bass, Malgoire's arrangement calls for two flutes (one doubling on piccolo), bassoon, strings, and continuo, thereby creating a more diverse color palette in line with Rameau's typical instrumentation for the théâtre lyrique . The Concerts en Sextuor have increasingly found favor among early music groups, and part of this is due to the richer timbres and fuller sound than Rameau's...
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