Sylvie Proulx's 2018 release on Centaur offers selections from the keyboard music of French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau in transcriptions for classical guitar. In his time, Rameau was famous as an opera composer, though his reputation as a music theorist and composer of keyboard works grew in the modern era with the early music revival. These dances and character pieces were drawn from Rameau's published suites for clavecin, and programmed here with a pair of minuets taken from the comédie lyrique Platée. All ...
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Sylvie Proulx's 2018 release on Centaur offers selections from the keyboard music of French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau in transcriptions for classical guitar. In his time, Rameau was famous as an opera composer, though his reputation as a music theorist and composer of keyboard works grew in the modern era with the early music revival. These dances and character pieces were drawn from Rameau's published suites for clavecin, and programmed here with a pair of minuets taken from the comédie lyrique Platée. All the selections are arrangements by other hands, including Proulx, Andrés Segovia, Jean-François Delcamp, John Duarte, Venancio Garcia Velasco, and Stéphane Nogrette, resulting in a variety of approaches to translating Rameau to this medium. While a guitar can't match the harpsichord's greater capacity for large chords and complex counterpoint, or its wider octave range, Rameau's textures are often spare enough to permit modest adaptations of the voice leading and the substitution...
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