AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire.(Sound Recording Review)
Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire. Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Archiv B0004478-02.
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was one of France's great early composers of operatic and choral music, but he never actually wrote anything specifically for the orchestra alone. Maestro Marc Minkowski has attempted to make up for this oversight by putting together an "Imaginary Symphony," a purely instrumental montage or pastiche made up of bits and pieces of Rameau's orchestral music interludes, overtures, and ballets. The result doesn't quite gel, but it's a fascinating overview of the composer's style.
The "Symphony" borrows from things like Castor et Pollux, Les Fetes d'Hebe, Dardanus, Le Temple de la Gloire, Les Boreades, La Naissance d'Osiris, Hippolyte & Arcie, Nais, and others. ...
- Jean-Philiipe Rameau.(Une Symphonie Imaginaire)(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Anderson, Rick December 1, 2005 700+ words
Jean-Philiipe Rameau. Une Symphonie Imaginaire. Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski. Archiv B0004478-02, 2005. The claims...In his notes to the present recording Marc Minkowski, conductor of Les Musiciens du Louvre...
- Magdalena, you're a devil!(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: Czech Music Stehlik, Lubos November 1, 2003 700+ words
...years now I have been working with Marc Minkowski and I have many friends in France...beginning that you would work with Marc Minkowski? Well, as you know, they (Note...of album this one was going to be, Marc Minkowski was the only possible conductor. You...
- Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 "Jupiter"; Final Ballet from Idomeneo.(Sound...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John August 1, 2007 700+ words
...Nos. 40 and 41 "Jupiter"; Final Ballet from Idomeneo. Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Archiv Production B0006506...period instruments before a live audience could do worse than Marc Minkowski's performances with the Musicians of the Louvre. As for...
- Armide.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada June 22, 1999 700+ words
...PODLES, Polegato, Beuron, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, conductor. Archiv 459-616-2 (2 CDs...singing actress in the title role. Fortunately, conductor Marc Minkowski engaged the talented young French soprano Mireille Delunsch...
- double play
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Edward Seckerson/Stephen Johnson April 19, 1996 700+ words
...colours, as realised in this smashing performance from Marc Minkowski and his Musiciens du Louvre, are telling and resourceful...this vibrant concert performance. I don't know whether Marc Minkowski especially enjoys the idea of Handel as subversive, but...
- Universal Classics Group Garners 19 Grammy Nominations, Dominating Several...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 7, 2003 700+ words
...Francisco, producer Handel: Hercules, Archiv Produktion Marc Minkowski, conductor; Richard Croft, David Daniels, Lynne Dawson...opera recordings, Handel's Hercules (with conductor Marc Minkowski) and Gluck's Alceste (with conductor Sir John Eliot...
- THE ARTS.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) October 7, 2003 700+ words
...Kozena, Anne Sofie von Otter, Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv, 474 210-2) HANDEL'S sumptuously scored...Charlotte Hellekant's Cornelia are also outstanding. Marc Minkowski's handling of the score, with period instruments, is...
- Reviews of new jazz, classical, pop and roots releases.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service February 6, 2001 700+ words
...Lucrezi," "Tra la fiamme." Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, conducting. (Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, 3 stars...degrees of emotional devastation. Elsewhere, conductor Marc Minkowski is his spirited self, reminding you that other passages...
