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Background: Volume 2 in Sophie Yates’s survey of Rameau’s music. 'Rameau's music is particularly important to me. He really brings together everything about the French baroque that I find so exciting, combining formality of structure with decorative extravagance and harmonic innovation.' Sophie Yates.

'The demands he places on the player make him an innovator in terms of keyboard technique and his writing brings out all the wonderful colours and effects possible on the harpsichord.' Sophie Yates.

The harpsichord Yates plays is a copy by Andrew Garlick of the Goujon instrument of 1748, housed in the Paris Conservatoire. Its decoration has some Flemish aspects to it, since the harpsichords of the illustrious Ruckers family of Antwerp were highly prized in France at the time. The inside of the lid is gilded with chinoiserie and it has an elegant, Louis XV-style stand. This is just the sort of harpsichord Rameau would have known and played upon himself.

CATALOGUE NR: CHAN0708
RECORD LABEL: Chandos Chaconne
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Aug-2004

COMPOSER: Jean-Philippe Rameau
TRACKS: Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin : Suite in A. Suite in G. Cinq pieces pour clavecin seul extraites de Pieces de clavecin en concerts - Paris 1741 - Five pieces from Pieces de clavecin en concerts arranged for solo harpsichord. La Dauphine.
ARTISTS: Sophie Yates      

- Dec-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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