Slippedisc daily comfort zone (50): Too fast?

Slippedisc daily comfort zone (50): Too fast?

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

June 05, 2021

Jean Philippe Rameau’s greatest hit

 

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Comments

  • Jimbo says:
    June 5, 2021 at 8:28 am

    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.

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  • John Salter says:
    June 5, 2021 at 9:39 am

    I think I’d prefer somewhere between the two…

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  • RB says:
    June 5, 2021 at 11:46 am

    Try Minkowski’s une symphonie imaginaire, also with les musiciens du louvre, the best album of Rameau.

    https://youtu.be/WOZxiPU7wo4

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  • Petros Linardos says:
    June 5, 2021 at 11:50 am

    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

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  • John Borstlap says:
    June 5, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    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

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  • almaviva says:
    June 5, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    To me, the best rendition of this is Christie’s with Les Arts Florissants:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XCtCNo1WM

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  • Gary Freer says:
    June 5, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    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.

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  • Robert Holmén says:
    June 5, 2021 at 9:55 pm

    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.

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  • M2N2K says:
    June 7, 2021 at 6:56 am

    The faster version is the better one.

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  • Patrick Gillot says:
    June 7, 2021 at 12:20 pm

    Minkovsky has the right tempo. I almost danced listening to it. The Italian band is a bit boring…

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