The keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau have not been played often on a modern piano. It will not do to claim, as does the copywriter of the back-cover text here, that the comparative neglect of Rameau's keyboard music is due to this fact; harpsichordists, with their growing body of performance insights, have tended indeed to rediscover composers. The problem is simply that the aesthetic of Rameau's smaller pieces, whose courtly formality is combined with a certain spirit of intellectual experimentation, remains a tough ...
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The keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau have not been played often on a modern piano. It will not do to claim, as does the copywriter of the back-cover text here, that the comparative neglect of Rameau's keyboard music is due to this fact; harpsichordists, with their growing body of performance insights, have tended indeed to rediscover composers. The problem is simply that the aesthetic of Rameau's smaller pieces, whose courtly formality is combined with a certain spirit of intellectual experimentation, remains a tough nut to crack in an age that values neither formality nor intellect. This said, recordings of Rameau (and of Couperin) on the piano have begun to appear. The Pièces de clavecin en concerts are claimed to have been recorded here for the first time on the piano. The harmonic density of this music -- it is really in the piano music that one hears Rameau applying the farther reaches of the system of tonal harmony that he did so much to demonstrate -- is sufficient to support moody,...
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