JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
PLATE * PIGMALION * DARDANUS BALLET SUITES
EUROPEAN UNION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA (EUBO) - ROY GOODMAN | SILVIA MÁRQUEZ CHULILLA, órgano
NAXOS 2005 | 8.557490
Although Rameau’s operas have not yet returned to the usual operatic repertoire, their ballet music – of great color not only for its rich and varied instrumentation but for its rhythmic, melodic and harmonic peculiarities – has become deservedly popular. The music for Platée is so vivid and full of sudden mood swings that its own choreography suggests. From Dardanus it was said at the time that it was “so loaded with music that for three hours the musicians of the orchestra didn’t even have time to sneeze.”
Pigmalion , one of Rameau’s most popular works, includes a delicious sequence of ten short dances entitled Les différents caractères de la danse , which covers all the basics of dance French in a single and easy lesson.
CD CONTENT
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Platée Suite
01. Ouverture
02. Air pantomime
03. Air de ballet
04. Orage
05. Air pour des fous gais et des fous tristes
06. Menuets I & II
07. Rigaudons I & II
Pygmalion Suite
08. Ouverture
09. Les differents caractères de la danse [Gracieusement, Air très lent, Gavotte lent, Menuet, Gavotte gaie, Chaconne vive, Loure très grave, Passepied vif, Rigaudon vif]
10. Sarabande pour la Statue / Tambourin: forte et vite
11. Marche
12. Pantomime niaise et un peu lent – Deuxième Pantomime très vite
13. Air gracieux et gai et contredanse
Dardanus Suite
14. Ouverture
15. Marche pour les différentes nations
16. Menuet
17. Tambourins I & II
18. Rigaudons I & II
19. Entrée d’Iphise
20. Air gai en rondeau
21. Menuets I & II
22. Tambourins III & IV
23. Sommeil de Dardanus
24. Chaconne
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