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Daily Comfort ZoneJean Philippe Rameau’s greatest hit
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I may be biased as this piece is an all time favourite.. but I think the piece can cope admirably with either tempo! I’ve heard slower!!!
The world has capacity for multiple interpretations.
I think I’d prefer somewhere between the two…
Try Minkowski’s une symphonie imaginaire, also with les musiciens du louvre, the best album of Rameau.
https://youtu.be/WOZxiPU7wo4
Yes, both too fast. For me, it’s Williams Christie.
2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sPC8HsXxik
2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zegtH-acXE&list=RDb07W6D02v00&t=11s
Or this one, William Christie with drum majorette in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNmyYgkG2z8
Better still, watch the whole Odyssée baroque, 40th anniversary concert of Les Arts florissants, December 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWeAsyMD_Go
Both of your links are for the 2019 performance I posted above. Were you trying to point us to another performance?
You’re right, sorry. Same performance.
The 1st video shows a considerably better performance than the 2nd. Very nice music, only the percussion is a bit too loud in both performances, instead of supporting the music it is rather intruding.
But: is ‘Les Indes Galantes’ not too racist and too white suprematist? With the depiction of ‘Les Sauvages’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zegtH-acXE&list=RDb07W6D02v00&t=88s
To me, the best rendition of this is Christie’s with Les Arts Florissants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XCtCNo1WM
Those fortunate enough to be brought up in Nottingham will tell you that Rameau’s greatest hit was in fact the gigue en rondeau in E minor from the pieces de clavecin – the music accompanying the hourly chimes on the Emett Water Clock in the Vic Centre.
Fabulous composer.
The famous lore is that this was inspired by an exhibition of native dances Rameau witnessed, by a delegation from French territories in North America.
It’s a pity we don’t know more about what that music was other than this distant cousin to it.
The faster version is the better one.
Minkovsky has the right tempo. I almost danced listening to it. The Italian band is a bit boring…