Vertigo : Rameau et Royer

Description

With the success of his first album "Bach-Imagine" in January 2015, Jean Rondeau gave the harpsichord a major showcase, thanks to his musical talent, youth, and independence of spirit. Today, "Vertigo" is released, an album dedicated to the great Rameau and the lesser-known Pancrace Royer, both French composers of the 18th century. What is Jean Rondeau's aim in this album? To convey that before the piano, the harpsichord, with its 10 fingers and a single instrument, allowed to transport "the brilliant baroque masquerade from the stage of Versailles or Paris to the infinite imagination of 10 fingers and a few jumps," or conversely to move from the intimacy of the salon to the grand opera hall. Like the piano and the string quartet later (Wagner or Beethoven transcribed for piano by Liszt), the harpsichord here becomes a miniature in which the great forms are embodied in the imagination of a small form. Listen to the dizzying and dramatic outbursts of "Vertigo" by Pancrace Royer or the frenzied tambourines of Rameau, his joyful delight in "Les Niais de Sologne"!