Composer of the Week - Jean-Philippe Rameau - Episode 1

During his lifetime, Rameau was widely regarded as the greatest French composer of the age, yet within a few decades of his death, his music had fallen into neglect. It took a century for the Rameau revival to begin and almost as long again for him to be fully rehabilitated. Donald Macleod considers the composer's first 50 years, which for the most part are shrouded in mystery. Contredanse (La guirlande) Les Arts Florissants William Christie (conductor) Prelude (Premier livre de pieces de clavecin) Michel Kiener (harpsichord) In convertendo Sophie Daneman, Olga Pitarch (sopranos) Jeffrey Thompson (tenor) Nicolas Rivenq (bass-baritone) Les Arts Florissants William Christie (conductor) Le berger fidele Veronique Gens (soprano) Les Musiciens du Louvre Marc Minkowski (conductor) Les sauvages; La poule (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin) William Christie (harpsichord).