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Composer of the Week: Rameau

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Presented by Roger Savage. 4: A Muse and Four Musettes
Bagpiping and country music in Rameau's operas: images of pastoral contentment, rusticity and the green world giving birth to civilised arts. Les indes galantes: the concert of nations in Hebe's garden.
Director William Christie
Platée: the mock-homage of the marsh-folk in Act III.
Director Marc Minkowski
Les fetes d'Hebe: the entry of muse Terpsichore.
Director John Eliot Gardiner
Za/s: the pastoral celebrations in Act IV.
Director Gustav Leonhardt
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Presented By:
Roger Savage.
Director:
William Christie
Director:
Marc Minkowski
Director:
John Eliot Gardiner
Director:
Gustav Leonhardt
Source: Radio Times

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