The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures. By Zachary Woolfe Listen to our critics’ ...

He courted controversy during his own lifetime, but Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) changed the course of musical history, first as a theorist, and then as a composer of some of the most influential ...

The French composer viewed music as a science but would regret not putting theory into practice until later in life Jean-Philippe Rameau's first opera was not premiered until the Frenchman was 50 The ...

On Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Samson at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In terms of the drama, one sequence stood out. Toward the end, a distraught Delilah commits suicide out of remorse, an idea taken from ...

A longtime selling point for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has been that it usually performs music written for an ensemble of approximately its size. For example, the symphonies of Mozart and Joseph ...

This week Donald Macleod explores Jean-Philippe Rameau’s operas. Upon his death in 1764 Rameau had more than 30 stage works to his name, a remarkable achievement considering he did not write his first ...

Víkingur Ólafsson is the new superstar of the classical piano. His recent Bach album for Deutsche Grammophon won a string of awards, he directs two music festivals, he’s hosted his own TV show in his ...

An arrangement of a piece French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote for harpsichord. Harpist Rachel Harris, violinist Amy Kauffman, harpsichordist Christina Scott Eleden and cellist Fred Eleden ...

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie Mark Padmore, Anna-Maria Panzarella, Lorraine Hunt, Laurent Naouri, Eirian James, singers; Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, conductor (Erato, 3 CDs) Even those ...

Donald Macleod explores the operas of Jean-Phillipe Rameau. At his death in 1764, Rameau, by then an octogenarian, had more than 30 stage works to his credit. It’s a remarkable achievement when you ...