Indian Summers
With Donald Macleod. Jean-Philippe Rameau was 50 before achieving his first operatic success. Before that, Rameau, a Burgundian, had struggled to break into Parisian musical circles as an organist and theoretician. He died in 1764 aged 81 and may have met Mozart the previous year, when the infant prodigy was touring Europe. Music includes: Rameau Coulez , Ondes (Nais)
English Bach Festival Chorus and Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan Rameau Anacreon (Scene 3)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
Gilles Requiem (Agnus Dei) Peter Kooy (bass), Choir and Orchestra of La Chapelle Royale, conductor Philippe Herreweghe Debussy Hommage a Rameau (Images) Aldo Ciccolini (piano)