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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    #16
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Ah beacoup Monsieur Cali!! Have a great weekend!
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • Black Swan

      #17
      BBM,

      I also strongly recommend the Christophe Rousset.

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        #18
        Thanks guys!! :)
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • MickyD
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 4931

          #19
          I would agree with the choice of Rousset, but I like Sophie Yates on Chandos, too.

          BTW, I am celebrating having just found a cheapish copy of a deleted set of the complete Rameau cantatas - small chamber pieces they may be, but full of fine things.

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

            #20
            Originally posted by MickyD View Post
            I would agree with the choice of Rousset, but I like Sophie Yates on Chandos, too.

            BTW, I am celebrating having just found a cheapish copy of a deleted set of the complete Rameau cantatas - small chamber pieces they may be, but full of fine things.
            The Rameau cantatas sound very interesting!

            doversoul warned me that this early music business is highly addictive, and she wasn't wrong!

            Maybe when I get back home I'll invest in some. Perhaps if the price moves from 'cheapish' to 'cheap'

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            • MickyD
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 4931

              #21
              It was a set recorded for ASV some years ago, Beefy...an English group directed by Gary Cooper (not the cowboy). As far as I know, it is the only complete set available, so it was a must for my shelves. I got a copy from Zoverstocks, but it is now back up to the silly price of £75.

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              • LeMartinPecheur
                Full Member
                • Apr 2007
                • 4717

                #22
                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                :)

                Any recordings, recommended of Rameau's keyboard works?
                I realise Rousset is the standard recommendation (if you can afford it!) but would point out that Virginia Black's website says she's recording Rameau. Doesn't say what but I would hope it's the solo suites.

                I have her single CD on Tring dating from 1996 with the 1706 A minor, 1724 E minor and 1724 D minor/ major suites, bought as from a bargain bin in the days when Basingstoke still had shops selling classical CDs It's streets ahead of the Pinnock CRD set. I don't have the Rousset to compare, though what I've hard of it on R3 is certainly impressive.
                I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                • doversoul1
                  Ex Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 7132

                  #23
                  I am enjoying the third programme. Graham Sadler could relax a little more but lots of great music and interesting talk. It's staggering to think how little we hear even Rameau’s music on Radio3. Rameau is after all one of the best known French Baroque composers.

                  I don’t know how many times I have said this but why on earth can’t we have the playlist prior to the programme when it is recorded?

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                  • Blotto

                    #24
                    Originally posted by doversoul View Post
                    Donald Macleod marks the 250th anniversary of one of the greatest figures in French musical history, composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau.
                    The 250th anniversary! That's a very long time to be married.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26610

                      #25
                      Originally posted by doversoul View Post
                      I am enjoying the third programme.
                      It's called "Radio 3" now, dovers....


                      ahem...



                      ... sorry, am in a frivolous mood

                      Seriously, I enjoyed the first two programmes greatly and hope to make the third coincide with my journey home.

                      I had no idea old Jean-Philippe was such a yob! Brawling, swordfighting in the Tuileries and what not!

                      Came of hot-headed southern stock, semble-t-il*....


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                      * one for you there, ammy!
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • amateur51

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        It's called "Radio 3" now, dovers....


                        ahem...



                        ... sorry, am in a frivolous mood

                        Seriously, I enjoyed the first two programmes greatly and hope to make the third coincide with my journey home.

                        I had no idea old Jean-Philippe was such a yob! Brawling, swordfighting in the Tuileries and what not!

                        Came of hot-headed southern stock, semble-t-il*....


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                        * one for you there, ammy!
                        The odd line of French I can cope with and it does add a certain je ne sais quoit to the proceedings - ooops there I go myself, y'see?!

                        To be fair, it was the FOUR pages of French at its most demotic that I baulked at
                        Last edited by Guest; 10-09-14, 13:58. Reason: finite verb

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26610

                          #27
                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          The odd line of French I can cope with and it does add a certain je ne sait quoit to the proceedings - ooops there I go myself, y'see?!

                          To be fair, it was the FOUR pages of French at its most demotic that I baulked at
                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 13134

                            #28
                            Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                            It was a set recorded for ASV some years ago, Beefy...an English group directed by Gary Cooper (not the cowboy). As far as I know, it is the only complete set available, so it was a must for my shelves. I got a copy from Zoverstocks, but it is now back up to the silly price of £75.
                            ... yet again, Micky contrives to make me green with envy. (Mind you, I suspect he wd be green with envy if he saw the extent of MY early music collections... ) - anyhoo - altho' I don't think I'll be able to get this anytime soon, Micky's post has prodded me to seek other possibilities - and I'm very grateful for that ) - so am acquiring Cyril Auvity



                            and on BIS London Baroque -



                            which almost completes the set (given I have the Christophe Coin Versailles recording)








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                            Last edited by vinteuil; 13-09-14, 13:52.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 38094

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Brawling, swordfighting in the Tuileries and what not!

                              *....

                              Blimey! - I hope he got them insured beforehand!

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                              • MickyD
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 4931

                                #30
                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... yet again, Micky contrives to make me green with envy. (Mind you, I suspect he wd be green with envy if he saw the extent of MY early music collections... ) - anyhoo - altho' I don't think I'll be able to get this anytime soon, Micky's post has prodded me to seek other possibilities - and I'm very grateful for that ) - so am acquiring Cyril Auvity



                                and on BIS London Baroque -



                                which almost completes the set (given I have the Christophe Coin Versailles recording)



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                                Sorry, Vints, didn't mean to bring out the green-eyed monster in you! I kept the Rameau Cantatas in my favourites list on Amazon for a long time, and it was only the other day that I found that Zoverstocks had a cheapish copy. I suggest you do the same...you can always check every now and then if a cheap copy becomes available. I'm sure I would indeed be jealous of your collection...and it is thanks to your extensive knowledge and hints that I have acquired so many fine discs of which I wasn't previously aware.

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