Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour [Import]

Track Listings
1. Ouverture    
2. Ritournelle    
3. Entree Des Crotoniates    
4. Rigaudon    
5. Entree Des Suivants    
6. Mouvement De Chaconne (Ii)    
7. Annonce De Diane    
8. Rondeau (I)    
9. Entree Des Sirenes (Ii)    
10. Sommeil D'anacreon (Iii)    
11. Gavotte Tendre Pour Les Graces    

Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour, Music, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ballet, Baroque Ballet, Classical, Classical Music
Rameau - Overtures / Christophe Rousset, Les talens lyriques
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Unexpectedly 'new' Style
  • A great walk-through Rameau's ouvertures
  • Cold heat
  • A constant pleasure
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 Rameau - Overtures / Christophe Rousset, Les talens lyriques
Jean-Philippe Rameau , Les talens lyriques , and Christophe Rousset
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ASIN: B000004CYY
Release Date: 1997-07-15

Tracks:

  1. Ouvertures: Les Fetes de Polymnie
  2. Ouvertures: Les Indes galantes
  3. Ouvertures: Zais
  4. Ouvertures: Castor et Pollux
  5. Ouvertures: Nais
  6. Ouvertures: Platee
  7. Ouvertures: Les Talens lyriques (Les Fetes d'Hebe)
  8. Ouvertures: Zoroastre
  9. Ouvertures: Dardanus
  10. Ouvertures: Les Paladins
  11. Ouvertures: Hippolyte et Aricie
  12. Ouvertures: Le Temple de la Gloire
  13. Ouvertures: Pigmalion
  14. Ouvertures: Les Surprises de l'Amour - Prologue (Le Retour d'Astree)
  15. Ouvertures: Les Fetes de l'Hymen de l'Amour, ou Les Dieux d'Egypte
  16. Ouvertures: Les Surprises de l'Amour - Acte I (L'Enlevement d'Adonis)
  17. Ouvertures: Acante et Cephise, ou La Sympathie

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Rameau waited until he was nearly 50 before writing his first opera, but after that there was no holding him back. One of the great masters of the Baroque orchestra (if not the greatest), he wrote overtures to theater works that call on a lavish array of instruments and use them all with an extraordinary feel for color and style. Although he was the major musical theorist of his day, Rameau's works sound wholly fresh and spontaneous, with numerous surprising twists and turns of phrase where you least expect them. Christophe Rousset leads his enthusiastic band of authentic instrument players in performances that will enchant all Baroque music fans. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Unexpectedly 'new' Style.......2007-01-20

I am not very familiar wiht Jean-Philippe Rameau's music, so when I looked at his dates, I expected something which sounded a lot like Henry Purcell. I was quite taken aback when the music I heard was nowhere near as wooden or 'mannered' as Purcell's work, almost all of which sounds like another version of the piece used as the theme to Masterpiece theatre.

The greatest surprise was saved until the end, with the Overture to 'Acante et Cephise, ou La Sympathie'. The surprising tympany accents made it sound positively 19th century, and the fluid strings supported that notion. It almost sounds as if Rameau skipped right over Mozart to Beethoven. Of course, Rameau is not nearly as delicate or sweet as Mozart, but this is still a welcome gift from the 18th century.

5 out of 5 stars A great walk-through Rameau's ouvertures.......2006-09-10

Jean-Philippe Rameau was certainly a vastly greater composer of orchestral music than Handel, that's for sure!

This excellent and beguiling collection of ouvertures is nearly complete, as far as I can tell - very few of the opera ouvertures Rameau wrote are not here. The performances are first class colourful and alive. There are those delicate and expressive moments we come to expect from a French Baroque composer, movements of great energy and the occasional fiery manifestations of "Sturm und Drang", too. Rameau's earliest ouvertures, Hippolyte et Aricie and Les Indes Galantes, show us a fully formed composer at the height of his powers - those powers only seemed to increase through Rameau's operatic career and his most daring, adventurous and fresh music composed in his old age.

Unlike Handel's ouvertures, which usually features oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo, Jean-Philippe Rameau used an orchestra sometimes featuring: piccolo, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, percussion and string orchestra - in fact an orchestra larger and more diverse than anything normally available to Franz Joseph Haydn or W. A. Mozart.

I have listened to this album many times since I first bought it and it always a delight to return to it. It can be "dipped into" or listened to in its entirety.

I hope Christophe Rousset and his talented Les Talens Lyriques eventually records some complete opera of Rameau for CD or DVD. Rousset's Monteverdi "L'incoronazione di Poppea" DVD is excellent and possibly the best DVD recording of that work currently available.

5 out of 5 stars Cold heat.......2002-09-08

The French Baroque Roccoco School of music has suffered in comparison to the most vibrant Italian competition, or Bach and Handel dexterity and brilliance, not to mention soul enhancing character of their works. That is unfortunate since some of the graduates of that French period like Rameau have a record that is far from insignificant. But Rameau wrote for a public that liked mental games, was more subdued and courtly. The fire had to be contained. But the intelligence and brilliance did not have to be contained. If you want to be convinced of this, do yourself a favor and get this record. I will warn you, you might need to listen to it a few times, to let it grow on you, but next thing you know you might be purchasing some of these great operas. Oh! And the quality of the recording is impeccable, though a little bit low for my taste.

5 out of 5 stars A constant pleasure.......2000-12-14

A collection of overtures to operas written by a Baroque composer whose name is well known but whose music is lesser known may not be high on everyone's 'want' list, but I urge you to take a chance on this CD. I obtained this disc as part of a 15-free-CDs introductory offer to a mail order CD club but it has turned out to be a pleasant surprise. This is music that seems to get better the more you hear it and ruminate over it afterward. Rameau is obviously a composer of considerable ingenuity and resource. These ouvertures positively bubble with effervescence and there is a refreshing lack of sameness among them. The period instrument group Les Talens Lyrique (named after one of the ouvertures on this CD) are obviously enthusiastic about this music and their playing is a joy. There is an appealing, analogue-like warmth about the recording, too.

5 out of 5 stars excellent.......2000-12-08

My favorite CD in my collection, but I lost the disc so I have to order a new copy!
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    Rameau: Les Surprises de l'Amour
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    Release Date: 2002-08-12

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    3. Entree Des Crotoniates
    4. Rigaudon
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    7. Annonce De Diane
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    10. Sommeil D'anacreon (Iii)
    11. Gavotte Tendre Pour Les Graces

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