Release Date: 30 June 2006
Label: Opus Arte - Dvd / Opus Arte
Packaging Type: DVD Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 809478009566
Genres: Soundtrack Music Concert
Description
Jean-Philippe Rameau was still a young musician when he moved to Lyon, where he probably composed his few surviving motets, including the Grand Motet 'In Convertendo', here performed by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, which anticipates Rameau's orchestration in his later operatic works. The wonderful fugue on Psalm 126 (verse 6) 'Euntes ibant et flebant' (They went forth and wept) bears comparison with similar works by his contemporary, J. S. Bach. In addition to a full performance of 'In Convertendo', this DVD presents some of Rameau's key chamber music pieces and an insightful music documentary, 'The Real Rameau', which sheds light on the life of a composer who thought only of music, dreaming of a universal harmony and regarding music as an example to all the arts and, indeed, to all the sciences as well. Pictured by his contemporaries as a gaunt and taciturn man, ill-suited to courtly surroundings, his work was described by Berlioz as 'one of the most sublime conceptions of dramatic music'.
Shakespeare'S Globe Theatre
Various
Tamara Rojo; Federico Bonelli; Edward Watson; Sarah Lamb; Leanne Benjamin; Lauren Cuthbertson; Stev
English National Ballet Philharmonic; Gavin Sutherland
THE ROYAL BALLET; EDWARD WATSON; GARY AVIS; SARAH LAMB; ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE; KOEN KE
EMMA PEARSON; AMITAI PATI; SARAH CASTLE; PAUL WHELAN; STEPHEN DIAZ; CHELSEA DOLMAN; SASHE ANGELOVSK
Liparit Avetisyan; Carlos Álvarez; Lisette Oropesa; Brindley Sherratt; Blaise Malaba; Amanda Baldwi
Leo Tetteh; Alice Kawalek; Constance Devernay; Bruno Micchiardi; Rishan Benjamin; Melissa Parsons;
