Composer: Jean Philippe Rameau
Performer: Stephen Gutman
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0052
Release: 2014
Size: 196 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin: Suite in A minor – major
01. I. Allemande
02. II. Courante
03. III. Sarabande
04. IV. Les trois mains
05. V. Fanfarinette
06. VI. La triomphante
07. VII. Gavotte with 6 double
08. VIII. Premier double de la Gavotte
09. IX. Deuxieme double
10. X. Troisieme double
11. XI. Quatrieme double
12. XII. Cinquieme
13. XIII. Sixieme double
Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin: Suite in G major – minor
14. I. Les tricotets
15. II. L’indifferente
16. III. Minuet I
17. IV. Minuet II
18. V. La poule
19. VI. Les triolets
20. VII. Les sauvages
21. VIII. L’enharmonique
22. IX. L’egiptienne
Pieces de clavecin en concerts: Concert No. 5 in D Minor (arr. S. Gutman for piano)
23. I. La forqueray
24. II. La Cupis
25. III. La marais
26. La Dauphine
27. Les petits marteaux
Pigmalion (Pygmalion) (arr. C. Balbastre for piano)
28. Giga (arr. C. Balbastre for piano)
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 third 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.