Plays Rameau

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0794881650224
Label : Harmonia Mundi
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2001-10-30
Running Time : 63minutes
UPC : 794881650224

ASIN : B00005QAGJ

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Editorial Reviews

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Rameau sur un Steinway ? Il faut une bonne dose d'inconscience aujourd'hui pour défier les baroqueux sur leur terre d'élection. Alexandre Tharaud en a pris le risque. Si son Rameau ne possède pas la légèreté des versions sur clavecin, jamais il n'épaissit le trait, jamais il ne brutalise le rythme, jamais il défait la structure d'ensemble. En lieu et place, il effeuille ces suites avec délicatesse : une sagesse de toucher qui ressemble à s'y méprendre à celle de la pianiste Marcelle Meyer qui, dans les années cinquante, deux bonnes décennies avant que le mouvement baroque n'impose ses vues radicales, offrait au disque un Rameau déjà allégé. Tharaud ne fait pas que signer un bon disque : il décomplexe tous les pianistes tentés par l'exploration de la musique de Rameau, qui, jusqu'alors, craignaient les foudres des baroqueux. --Pierre Guillaume

Customer Reviews

Overall really good, but lacking in some areas (2003-02-23)

Tharaud's Rameau is for the most part excellent, but I felt that something was lacking. His playing in some places seemed restrained and timid to my ears. This is music that is full of rhythmic vigor, and it doesn't always come through in Tharaud's playing. His ornaments are beautiful and accurate...something that is not altogether easy to transfer from the harpsichord to the piano. I quite enjoyed his 'Gavotte and Six Doubles' (a piece I play, by the way). He does some things I've not heard in other interpretations, which were fairly interesting. If you like Rameau's keyboard music and already have the recordings of Meyer, Sokolov, Casadesus, Cziffra, etc., then this would probably be a welcome addition to your collection. If you are new to his keyboard music, you may want to listen to some of the names mentioned previously before getting this.

more please... (2002-02-19)

There are frightfully few recordings of Rameau on the piano. This is one of them, and it is delightful. Mordecai Shehori also has an excellent recording of Rameau music on the piano. If you have enjoyed listening to Bach on the piano, I think you'll enjoy this flavor of Baroque music. The music can be haunting and introspective and interestingly, colors emerge that one might not have thought if you are familiar with the harpsichord incarnation of the music. If you are a pianist, it will probably give you some ideas for new repertoire.The recording quality is good -- and I find myself easily relistening to this recording.

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