Reissued in 2007 to help re-launch Decca's Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre line, the pairing of Jean-Féry Rebel's flamboyant ballet Les Élémens with a work of the same name by André Cardinal Destouches made this album a stunning success for Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music in 1978. Because no complete score survives, Rebel's music ...
Journey is a compilation of greatest hits from CDs of Les Boréades de Montréal, an early music ensemble that focuses on music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was probably compiled as a promotional teaser, to tantalize listeners into going out and buying the albums from which these excerpts were extracted, and if that was the intent ...
There are quite a few French Baroque ballet and opera samplers on the market, perhaps because theses repertories, with their arcane textual and musical conventions and their unfamiliar genres, are thought to be rather inaccessible for general listeners in complete works or large chunks of them. The reconstructions of William Christie and others, ...
Because no complete score survives, Jean-Féry Rebel's flamboyant ballet Les Élémens has been reassembled from extant parts. Musica Antiqua Köln satisfactorily recorded the work on Archiv, in a different sequence and with alternate instrumentation, yet Christopher Hogwood's performance with the Academy of Ancient Music stands as the most polished ...
Jean-Féry Rebel, a bit older than Rameau, is one of a collection of little-understood French composers of the early eighteenth century who churned out suites of orchestral dances for entertainment and stage productions at various levels of French aristocratic society. The suites here are of different lengths, determined by the extramusical program ...
Australian label ABC Classics' The Musicians' Table features the Ensemble Battistin in Baroque chamber works of French composers Pierre Danican Philidor, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, and Jean-Féry Rebel. It is subtitled "The Perfection of Music: Masterpieces of the French Baroque" and appears to be the fifth disc in a ...
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