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Rameau Debussy Limited Vinyl 2LP Set

by Víkingur Ólafsson

Release Date: 27 March 2020

Format: LP Double Vinyl

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

£29.99

Víkingur Ólafsson Rameau Debussy Limited Vinyl 2LP Set

Overview:

Fresh from his hugely acclaimed and multi award winning album Johann Sebastian Bach , Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson’s third Deutsche Grammophon recording pairs works by two revolutionary French composers separated by a century and a half: Jean Philippe Rameau and Claude Debussy.
Debussy is most often called an impressionist. “People get lost a little bit in sound for the sake of sound”, Ólafsson comments. But the composer was also “a real perfectionist … there is this incredibly refined structure at work .” Rameau, the bad boy of the French baroque ”, likewise combined a strong sense of structure with a fondness for breaking conventions : “He broke the rules and paved the way for new ideas, new creativity , new spontaneity .” What unites the two composers, Ólafsson comments, is “a kind of freedom and discipline, juxtaposed”.
The album Debussy & Rameau alternates music by the two composers, creating an enthralling dialogue between them. Works are drawn from across both composers’ careers, with the Debussy selection including well known miniatures such as La Fille aux cheveux de lin as well as the less familiar Prelude to La Damoiselle élue arranged for piano solo. Rameau’s works are mainly drawn from his Pièces de clavecin collections of between 1724 and 1741. One of the album’s centrepieces is Ólafsson’s own Rameau arrangement The Arts and the Hours
Ólafsson’s album concludes with a piece that connects the two composers directly: Debussy’s Hommage à Rameau from Images book 1, a moving sarabande written as a tribute from one rule breaking composer to another.

Featured Tracks:

1. Prélude
2. Le Rappel Des Oiseaux
3. Rigaudons I, II & Double
4. Musette En Rondeau
5. Tambourin
6. La Villageoise. Rondeau
7. Gigues En Rondeau I & II
8. Jardins Sous La Pluie
9. Serenade for the Doll
10. The Snow Is Dancing
11. Les Tendres Plaintes. Rondeau
12. Les Tourbillons. Rondeau
13. L'entretien Des Muses
14. Des Pas Sur La Neige
15. La Joyeuse. Rondeau
16. Les Cyclopes. Rondeau
17. The Arts and the Hours
18. La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin
19. Ondine
20. La Cupis
21. L'indiscrète. Rondeau: Vivement
22. La Rameau
23. La Poule
24. L'enharmonique. Gracieusement
25. Menuets I & II
26. Les Sauvages
27. L'Égyptienne
28. Hommage À Rameau

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