Angela Hewitt - Rameau: Keyboard Suites in E Minor, G Minor & A Minor [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Hyperionu2019s Record of the Month for January takes multi-award-winning Baroque legend Angela Hewitt to the elegantly refined French court of the early eighteenth century.rJean-Philippe Rameau topped the summit of the Musical Establishmentu2014named Compositeur du Cabinet du Roi in 1745u2014yet his pedigree was hardly auspicious. For a time a travelling violinist, he held numerous undistinguished posts as provincial organist (rarely serving out his contract and on one occasion deliberately playing sufficiently badly to ensure his dismissal) before finally settling in Paris at the age of forty.rSomething of a theoristu2014his treatise On the Technique of the Fingers on the Harpsichord makes for essential readingu2014Rameauu2019s intellectualism combines in his music to produce passion and tenderness, in his own words u2018true music u2026 the language of the heartu2019. Some sixty keyboard works are known, gathered by key into five suites; Hewitt here performs three of them. Courtly dances (including the famous Tambourin) sit alongside more programmatic movements (such as Les sauvagesu2014Rameau had just seen two Louisiana Indians performing at the theatre) in these engaging and deceptively catchy miniatures.rAdmirers of Angela Hewittu2019s acclaimed Bach and Couperin recordings will need no encouragement to sample these new delights.rAngela Hewitt was named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards 2006, capping a year of unparalleled success and recognition.

Allemande

Courante

Gigue En Rondeau I

Gigue En Rondeau II

Le Rapped Des Oiseaux

Rigaudons I And II

Musette En Rondeau

Tambourin

La Villageoise

Les Tricotets

L'indifferente

Menuets I And II

La Poule

Les Triolets

Les Sauvages

L'enharmonique

L'egiptienne

Allemande

Courante

Sarabande

Les Trois Mains

Fanfarinette

La Trois Mains

Gavotte

Double 1

Double 2

Double 3

Double 4

Double 5

Double 6

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