Rameau: Complete Keyboard Music Volume 1
Stephen Gutman (piano)
Gutman's playing is sensitive, lightly articulated and cautious in its expressive range. At times he errs on the side of understatement. It is, though, engaging for its ornamental delicacy...
Rameau: Complete Keyboard Music Volume 1
Stephen Gutman (piano)
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Gutman's playing is sensitive, lightly articulated and cautious in its expressive range. At times he errs on the side of understatement. It is, though, engaging for its ornamental delicacy...
About
Rameau was one of the great composers for the keyboard. But because pianists have not adopted his harpsichord music as they have that of the other great names of the Baroque – Bach, Handel and Scarlatti – his stature as a keyboard composer is not fully acknowledged. This series of three CDs presents all his keyboard music on the piano: the familiar suites, a number of discoveries and arrangements by his contemporaries.
Contents and tracklist
- Stephen Gutman
- Stephen Gutman
Rameau:
5 Pieces pour clavecin seul, extraites de Pieces de clavecin en concerts, First Concert in C Minor
Work length9:19
- Stephen Gutman
Rameau:
5 Pieces pour clavecin seul, extraites de Pieces de clavecin en concerts, Second Concert in G Major
Work length17:36
- Stephen Gutman
Rameau:
5 Pieces pour clavecin seul, extraites de Pieces de clavecin en concerts, Third Concert in A Major
Work length10:25
- Stephen Gutman
Awards and reviews
December 2007
Gutman's playing is sensitive, lightly articulated and cautious in its expressive range. At times he errs on the side of understatement. It is, though, engaging for its ornamental delicacy and communicative lyricism.
November 2007
Rameau on the piano is gaining fast. …while the texture can still get congested on occasion, the overall feel is one of languid grace and charm. Gutman… achieves satisfying clarity and attack in many of the faster dance movements and reacts well to Rameau's strong harmonic sense, forcefully direct in places, deliciously clouded in others.
