Rameau, J P - Keyboard Suites - Hewitt, Angela (piano)

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"Man viker sig...för Hewitts musicerande, med dess unika förgrening av vänlighet och intelligens. Subtilt utnyttjande av pianots dynamiska möjligheter, excellent klarhet i de intrikata ornamenten, vilka osökt infogas i helheten"

(Svenska Dagbladet)



This CD takes multi-award-winning Baroque legend Angela Hewitt to the elegantly refined French court of the early eighteenth century.


Jean-Philippe Rameau topped the summit of the Musical Establishment—named Compositeur du Cabinet du Roi in 1745—yet his pedigree was hardly auspicious. For a time a travelling violinist, he held numerous undistinguished posts as provincial organist (rarely serving out his contract and on one occasion deliberately playing sufficiently badly to ensure his dismissal) before finally settling in Paris at the age of forty.


Something of a theorist—his treatise On the Technique of the Fingers on the Harpsichord makes for essential reading—Rameau’s intellectualism combines in his music to produce passion and tenderness, in his own words ‘true music…the language of the heart’. Some sixty keyboard works are known, gathered by key into five suites; Hewitt here performs three of them. Courtly dances (including the famous Tambourin) sit alongside more programmatic movements
(such as Les sauvages—Rameau had just seen two Louisiana Indians performing at the theatre) in these engaging and deceptively catchy miniatures.


Admirers of Angela Hewitt’s acclaimed Bach and Couperin recordings will need no encouragement to sample these new delights.


Angela Hewitt was named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards 2006, capping a year of unparalleled success and recognition.



Also available on Super Audio CD: SACDA 67597

Angela Hewitt, piano
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Suite in E minor


Pièces de clavecin (1724, revised 1731)


1 Allemande


2 Courante


3 Gigue en rondeau I


4 Gigue en rondeau II


5 Le rappel des oiseaux


6 Rigaudons I and II


7 Musette en rondeau


8 Tambourin


9 La villageoise





Suite in G minor


Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (c1729–30)


10 Les tricotets


11 L’indifferente


12 Menuets I and II


13 La poule


14 Les triolets


15 Les sauvages


16 L’enharmonique


17 L’egiptienne





Suite in A minor


Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (c1729–30)


18 Allemande


19 Courante


20 Sarabande


21 Les trois mains


22 Fanfarinette


23 La triomphante


24 Gavotte


25 Double 1


26 Double 2


27 Double 3


28 Double 4


29 Double 5


30 Double 6