Rameau: Platée
$55.00
In Stock
add to cart
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Platée
Genia KAhmeier, Toby Spence, Dietrich Henschel, Sophie KarthANuser, Markus Werba / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 29 October 2021
A marsh nymph thinks she is so irresistible that Jupiter himself will take an interest in her . . . Brimming with exceptional dramatic and musical verve, this strangely under-recorded 'ballet bouffon' offers us Rameau's art in a nutshell: glittering orchestration, harmonies and rhythms of unprecedented modernity. William Christie and his comrades plunge with delight into what is one of its composer's most fascinating works.
"Under Christie, overtures and dances are terse, with tense articulation and precise meter. While carefully shaping soloists' ensembles, Christie gives tenor Marcel Beekman, cross-dressed in the title role, the latitude needed to nail his part. Beekman is riveting, his outrageous vocalism creating a Platée who is ludicrous yet sympathetic." BBC Music
"Thank goodness it has been captured! Christie's conducting is masterly, totally in command of the idiom, faultless in dramatic timing and pacing, encouraging of vivid and colourful characterisation from his singers, and easily ticking off the score's comic tricks." Gramophone
