Playing Rameau Interpretations by Stephen Gutman - recommended by GEORGE BALCOMBE '... not a million miles away from jazz.'

While it is true that this CD is called Rameau -- The Complete Keyboard Music Volume 1, the Frenchman is not the leading character. The pianist Stephen Gutman is. After all, he has two jobs to do -- to understand Rameau's world of the eighteenth century harpsichord, and to decide how the modern piano should, or should not, respond to it.

This is not a simple matter. Rameau used his harpsichord to expose the instrument and audience to a totally new kind of music which Rameau had invented...

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU

HARPSICHORD

TOCCATA CLASSICS

PIANO

FRANCE