{"product_id":"683387","title":"Angela Hewitt - Rameau: Keyboard Suites in E Minor, G Minor \u0026 A Minor [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHyperion\\u2019s 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.\\r\u003cbr\u003eJean-Philippe Rameau topped the summit of the Musical Establishment\\u2014named Compositeur du Cabinet du Roi in 1745\\u2014yet 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.\\r\u003cbr\u003eSomething of a theorist\\u2014his treatise On the Technique of the Fingers on the Harpsichord makes for essential reading\\u2014Rameau\\u2019s intellectualism combines in his music to produce passion and tenderness, in his own words \\u2018true music \\u2026 the language of the heart\\u2019. 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 sauvages\\u2014Rameau had just seen two Louisiana Indians performing at the theatre) in these engaging and deceptively catchy miniatures.\\r\u003cbr\u003eAdmirers of Angela Hewitt\\u2019s acclaimed Bach and Couperin recordings will need no encouragement to sample these new delights.\\r\u003cbr\u003eAngela Hewitt was named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards 2006, capping a year of unparalleled success and recognition.\u003cp\u003eAllemande\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCourante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGigue En Rondeau I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGigue En Rondeau II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLe Rapped Des Oiseaux\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRigaudons I And II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusette En Rondeau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTambourin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Villageoise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLes Tricotets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL'indifferente\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenuets I And II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Poule\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLes Triolets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLes Sauvages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL'enharmonique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL'egiptienne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllemande\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCourante\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarabande\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLes Trois Mains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFanfarinette\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Trois Mains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGavotte\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouble 6\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55159371104641,"sku":"683387","price":12.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51qF8plrt4L._SL1500.jpg?v=1767975800","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/683387","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}