This little release from the Baton Rouge, LA-based Centaur label offers a fresh way of performing Rameau and an innovative path into his wildly original and often forbidding music. That said, what's offered here by the veteran U.S. historical-instrument group the Aulos Ensemble isn't something that specifically dates from Rameau's time. The group members reason that a good deal of French music from the early eighteenth century appeared in arrangements for small groups like the one heard here -- transverse flute, Baroque ...
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This little release from the Baton Rouge, LA-based Centaur label offers a fresh way of performing Rameau and an innovative path into his wildly original and often forbidding music. That said, what's offered here by the veteran U.S. historical-instrument group the Aulos Ensemble isn't something that specifically dates from Rameau's time. The group members reason that a good deal of French music from the early eighteenth century appeared in arrangements for small groups like the one heard here -- transverse flute, Baroque oboe, Baroque violin, Baroque cello, and harpsichord. Even arrangements for solo harpsichord, like one that appeared for the massive opera-ballet Les indes galantes, were laid out in such a way that they seemed to suggest that other instruments might have been involved. "We have taken all this as a starting point for our arrangements of this dramatic music," they write in the booklet (which is in English only). They reduce 26 numbers from Les indes galantes and the equally elaborate Les...
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