This release is something of a sequel, 17 years on, to the album Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire, released by Les Musiciens du Louvre and its director, Marc Minkowski, in 2005. That album was a great success as early music recordings go, and the COVID pandemic proved an ideal time to revisit the concept. The new album was recorded under empty-hall restrictions in 2021, was released the following spring, and landed on best-seller charts. Rameau did not write anything called a symphony, and the booklet goes into interesting ...
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This release is something of a sequel, 17 years on, to the album Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire, released by Les Musiciens du Louvre and its director, Marc Minkowski, in 2005. That album was a great success as early music recordings go, and the COVID pandemic proved an ideal time to revisit the concept. The new album was recorded under empty-hall restrictions in 2021, was released the following spring, and landed on best-seller charts. Rameau did not write anything called a symphony, and the booklet goes into interesting detail on why this was and why instrumental music made up such a small proportion of the French Baroque scene in general. Instead, the Nouvelle Symphonie, like its imaginary predecessor, is a collection of pieces assembled and sequenced effectively by Minkowski that showcases the best of Rameau as an orchestrator. They are mostly instrumental, but there are a few airs sung by baritone Florian Sempey, rather swallowed up in the Royal Opera House acoustic. The beauty of this idea is...
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