Alberto Rasi | Accademia Strumentale Italiana
Pièces de clavecin en concerts
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917290523
- Catalog number CC 72905
- Release date 04 March 2022
About the album
Fifteen years after his Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin, Rameau once again turns his attention to an instrumental work, for what will be the last time, inspired by the new potential for chamber music glimpsed in the use of the concertante keyboard. The 1741 collection is the only new work he produced between 1740 and 1744, before returning to the musical theatre – to which he will dedicate the rest of his lifeThe most attractive aspect of the Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts, and the one which provides the most authentic reading of the work, is the multiplicity of possible combinations in performance between the instruments indicated in the score (harpsichord, violin/flute, viola da gamba/2nd violin ), following the detailed instructions that Rameau provides for each of them in the various Avis in the preface of the printed edition. The author’s intention was undoubtedly for the harpsichord and its virtuosic protagonism to be the backbone of the Pièces; however, the possibilities of alternative timbric arrangements are specifically contemplated by Rameau for this work. What was a widespread ad libitum performance practice, today becomes an extremely inviting challenge for modern performers in terms of tonal reinvention of the pieces. Thus, with each new reading the music may be reinvented, making in turn every new listening experience a rediscovery and a revelation.
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11I Concert La Coulicam, Rondement
03:48 -
12I Concert La Livri, Rondeau gracieux
02:45 -
13I Concert Le Vézinet, Gaiement, sans vitesse
03:38 -
14II Concert La Laborde, Rondement
05:44 -
15II Concert La Boucon, Air, gracieux
05:00 -
16II Concert L’Agaçante, Rondement
02:50 -
17II Concert Premier et 2.me Menuet
04:52 -
18III Concert La La Popliniére, Rondement
02:59 -
19III Concert La Timide, I et II Rondeau gracieux
05:38 -
110III Concert I Tambourin et II Tambourin en rondeau
02:35 -
111IV Concert La Pantomime, Loure un peu vive
04:54 -
112IV Concert L’Indiscrète, Vivement
01:50 -
113IV Concert La Rameau
04:39 -
114V Concert La Forqueray, Fugue
04:41 -
115V Concert La Cupis, Rondement
05:31 -
116V Concert La Marais
02:37