Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Boréades RCT 31
Symphonies
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Boréades RCT 31
Symphonies
- Instrumentation Orchestra
- Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Editor Sylvie Bouissou
- Lyricist Louis de Cahusac
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- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA8898-DL
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Description:
Although Rameau's "Boréades" from 1762 were not performed during his lifetime, they are his musical masterpiece and a synthesis of his compositional output. All the musical innovations to which the composer subjected the traditional genre of the "tragédie lyrique" are manifested here, and so it is particularly the purely instrumental numbers, the divertissements and ballets that are so astonishing to us today in their expressive diversity. Incorporated into the opera, they drive the dramatic plot forward and are given an overarching formal function through motivic interlocking. In the form of orchestral suites, the baroque color palette, its rhythmic complexity and atmospheric variety are heard as absolute music - extremely varied and as tempestuous as the plot suggests.