Rameau - Orchestral Suites - Bruggen - McGegan - Kuijken - Terey-Smith - Gardiner

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Castor et Pollux, Instrumental Suite
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Three Fantasias
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen
Philips 1990

Written for the pomp of the Academie Royale de Musique, his tragedies lyriques and opera-ballets live again, with a life more intimate and more spiritual, within the four walls of your music rooms; and the works which first saw the day as amusements for a semi-musical public of opinionated amateurs or a gathering of inattentive courtiers will be numbered among the most loved of your household gods. Cuthbert Girdlestone, 1957  












Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie
Orchestral Suite
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1979
(Re-edition 1990)





                                                   


Rameau
Suites from Platée and Dardanus
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan
Conifer 1998






All disc flac, cue, logs, scans and booklet

Bonus disc: A recopilation of the dances of Rameau´s last opera, Les Boréades, taken from the pioneering recording of John Eliot Gardiner, Erato 1982. (Foobar verified rip, tracks and cover)