Rameau - Complete Keyboard Music Vol.2  | Toccata Classics TOCC0051

Rameau - Complete Keyboard Music Vol.2

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0051

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st October 2012

Contents

Artists

Stephen Gutman (piano)

Works

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Dardanus
» Gavotte
Les Indes galantes
Menuet en rondeau
Pieces de clavecin en concerts (5 books)
» Fourth Concert in B flat major
Suite no.3 in D major/minor

Artists

Stephen Gutman (piano)

About

Rameau is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s major composers, but whereas pianists are happy to play music by his contemporaries Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, they have largely ignored Rameau’s glorious output for keyboard.

This series (this is the second of three CDs) aims to remedy that shortcoming by recording all of Rameau’s music for keyboard - the first ever to do so.

The pianist, Stephen Gutman, is a specialist in French and Baroque music and his expertise produces readings that satisfy the stylistic requirements of the music and exploit the sonorities of the modern concert grand.

The booklet notes are by Britain’s leading Rameau scholar, Graham Sadler.  

Stephen Gutman has earned a reputation as one of Britain’s most creative performers of modern music. He has also made a speciality of interpreting French Baroque keyboard repertoire on the modern piano. He has given the UK premieres of works by Birtwistle and Schnittke, amongst others. New works have been written for him by such composers as Julian Anderson, Michael Finnissy, Simon Holt, Gabriel Jackson and John Woolrich.

Stephen Gutman makes a persuasive advocate for the piano in place of the harpsichord, and includes some of his own transcriptions in this rewarding collection, played with insight and elegance’ - Stephen Pritchard, The Observer (Vol.1)

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