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Rameau: Pièces de clavecin

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Rameau: Pièces de clavecin

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[CPE Bach's] blend of tradition...and audacity...all captured with unfailing insight by Mahan Esfahani - is contintually beguiling...Esfahani's playing is always considered and often brilliant....

BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 20144 out of 5 stars

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Rameau: Pièces de clavecin

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

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Awards:

[CPE Bach's] blend of tradition...and audacity...all captured with unfailing insight by Mahan Esfahani - is contintually beguiling...Esfahani's playing is always considered and often brilliant....

BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 20144 out of 5 stars

More reviews

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Gramophone-Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani has recorded Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin in the historic setting of the Music Room at Hatchlands Park in Surrey. This is a masterclass for the instrument, confirming this young artist as a truly great player: in the words of International Record Review ‘his technique is beyond criticism and his inherent musicianship goes far deeper than mere surface understanding … it is difficult not to warm to such a musician’.

This double album comprises the whole of Rameau’s output of keyboard suites, and Esfahani rejoices in its wealth of genius, its excitement and drama. Rameau is a composer whose revival is ongoing, and his unique combination of the witty and the cerebral, the light and the curmudgeonly, abounds throughout his harpsichord music.

Contents and tracklist

Rameau: Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (c1729–30)
Work length19:17
I. Prélude
Track length2:04
II. Allemande I
Track length4:08
III. Allemande II
Track length1:55
IV. Courante
Track length1:51
V. Gigue
Track length2:22
VI. Sarabandes I & II
Track length2:57
VII. Vénitienne
Track length1:28
VIII. Gavotte
Track length1:27
IX. Menuet
Track length1:05
Rameau: Suite in E minor
Work length20:00
I. Allemande
Track length3:47
II. Courante
Track length1:36
III. Gigues en rondeau I & II
Track length3:35
IV. Le rappel des oiseaux
Track length2:57
V. Rigaudons I, II & double
Track length2:06
VI. Musette en rondeau
Track length2:13
VII. Tambourin
Track length1:16
VIII. La villageoise (rondeau)
Track length2:30
Rameau: Suite in D Major
Work length27:44
I. Les tendres plaintes (rondeau)
Track length2:58
II. Les niais de Sologne
Track length5:15
III. Les soupirs
Track length3:57
IV. La joyeuse (rondeau)
Track length1:16
V. La follette (rondeau)
Track length1:27
VI. L'entretien des Muses
Track length5:48
VII. Les tourbillons (rondeau)
Track length2:11
VIII. Les cyclopes (rondeau)
Track length3:04
IX. Le lardon (menuet)
Track length0:47
X. La boiteuse
Track length1:01
Rameau: Menuet en rondeau
Work length0:35
Rameau: Suite No 2 in A minor
Work length29:13
I. Allemande
Track length6:37
II. Courante
Track length3:51
III. Sarabande
Track length2:40
IV. Les trois mains
Track length4:37
V. Fanfarinette
Track length2:36
VI. Le triomphante
Track length1:27
VII. Gavotte
Track length7:25
Rameau: Suite in G minor
Work length26:42
I. Les tricotets (rondeau)
Track length1:39
II. L'indifferente
Track length1:41
III. Menuets I & II
Track length3:01
IV. La poule
Track length4:41
V. Les triolets
Track length4:00
VI. Les sauvages
Track length2:18
VII. L'enharmonique
Track length5:41
VIII. L'egiptienne
Track length3:41
Rameau: La Dauphine
Work length2:49
Rameau: Les petits marteaux
Work length1:41

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    December 2014
    Editor's Choice
  • Gramophone Awards
    2015
    Finalist - Baroque Instrumental

Christmas 2014

[CPE Bach's] blend of tradition...and audacity...all captured with unfailing insight by Mahan Esfahani - is contintually beguiling...Esfahani's playing is always considered and often brilliant. At times, the articulation could have been more delicately nuanced, but as a whole this is a splendid guide to Rameau's harpsichord music.
4 out of 5 stars

December 2014

a key factor in determining the longevity of an interpretation is the degree to which the performer succeeds in characterising the music and, on this point alone, top marks must go to Mahan Esfahani, who seems always to have its measure and brings unfailing wit, affection, fluency and pacing to his interpretations.

21st December 2014

A special player of his sometimes brittle and recalcitrant instrument. I don’t think I have heard a harpsichord sound as supple and rich in colours as the beautiful Ruckers-built (1636), Hemsch-adapted (1763) instrument he plays in these wonderful pieces.

Early Music Today May 2015

Mahan Esfahani brings such portrayals vividly to life, and also offers sparkling accounts of less exotic items…utterly entrancing
5 out of 5 stars
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