Platée (Junon jalouse), Movements: Que ce séjour (Act 1, scene 3) Lafayette Opera Orchestra Ryan Brown, Conductor Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Tenor Platée (Junon jalouse), ...

With top-quality Baroque works performed in the Bay Area each year, music lovers might be tempted to think they’ve heard everything the era produced. But this weekend at Zellerbach Hall, audiences are ...

Donald Macleod explores the operas of Jean-Phillipe Rameau. At his death in 1764, Rameau, by then an octogenarian, had more than 30 stage works to his credit. It’s a remarkable achievement when you ...

He courted controversy during his own lifetime, but Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) changed the course of musical history, first as a theorist, and then as a composer of some of the most influential ...

Pièces de clavecin, Movements: Allemande Joël Pontet, Harpsichord Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Pièces de clavecin, Movements: Courante Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Joël Pontet, Harpsichord Pièces ...

A few weeks ago, a new recording of Claude Debussy and Jean-Philippe Rameau works by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson arrived in the mail courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon. I wondered at the pairing ...

Devos/Gens/Van Mechelen/Christoyannis/Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie/Kossenko (Alpha, three CDs) A rare recording of Rameau’s unrevised original, compelling at times but mainly of interest to ...

Donald Macleod marks the 250th anniversary of one of the greatest figures in French musical history, composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. Controversy was never too far away from Jean-Philippe ...