Rameau: Keyboard Suites in E Minor, G Minor & A Minor

Featuring

Angela Hewitt
Jean-Philippe Rameau

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Performer Biography

Angela Hewitt, the pianist on this recording, was awarded the first ever BBC Radio 3 Listener's Award in 2003 and was voted Gramophone's 'Artist of the Year' in 2006.

Composition History

Rameau's keyboard works were first published in a modern edition in 1895, edited by Camille Saint-Saëns, but this edition omitted most ornaments as they were deemed impossible on the modern piano.

Composer Biography

Rameau, who earned a living as an organist for 35 years, surprisingly left no compositions for the organ.

Composer Biography

Rameau left Jesuit college without completing his studies and only improved his French grammar at age seventeen after a young lady he admired criticized his clumsy speech.

Composer Biography

Jean-Philippe Rameau, unlike Bach or Couperin, did not come from a long line of musicians; his father was the first in his family to pursue music professionally.