Anyone familiar with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre's Une Symphonie Imaginaire is acquainted with the fact that Jean-Philippe Rameau composed some of the most intensely eccentric and challenging orchestral music in the eighteenth century. While the great popularity of the Minkowski release on Archiv can be credited for helping bring a far larger audience to Rameau than he previously had, the composer of Louis XIV's theater has never lacked for advocates, and one interpreter long dedicated to his cause is Frans ...
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Anyone familiar with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre's Une Symphonie Imaginaire is acquainted with the fact that Jean-Philippe Rameau composed some of the most intensely eccentric and challenging orchestral music in the eighteenth century. While the great popularity of the Minkowski release on Archiv can be credited for helping bring a far larger audience to Rameau than he previously had, the composer of Louis XIV's theater has never lacked for advocates, and one interpreter long dedicated to his cause is Frans Brüggen, leader of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century based in Utrecht. Glossa's Jean-Philippe Rameau: Orchestral Suites in its Glossa Cabinet series is a reissue of a disc it originally released in 1998; it features Brüggen and his expert period band from a live concert held in Utrecht in the 1996-1997 seasons. Of course, Rameau does not have stand-alone orchestral music, and all such music is excerpted from the generous amount of overtures, ballet music, and dances found in his...
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