MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rameau: Pieces de clavecin Volume 2 (Includes Suites in A & G)

'Sophie Yates plays a powerful sounding harpsichord and finds opportunities to display its full musical resources in this consistenly marvellous music. She tackles the big virtuoso moments head on and even manages to fit in a few roulades of her own - I especially enjoyed those at the end of the Gavotte's final Double.'
- Early Music Review

'Yates's strengths are clearly suited to those of Rameau: depth of characterisation, polarised moods and a delight in the instrument's sonorities.'
- BBC Music Magazine

Rameau's music is particularly important to me. He really brings together everything about the French baroque that I find so exciting, combining formality of structure with decorative extravagance and harmonic innovation. The demands he places on the player make him an innovator in terms of keyboard technique and his writing brings out all the wonderful colours and effects possible on the harpsichord.
- Sophie Yates