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muzycy:
Accademia Strumentale Italiana
Patrizia Marisaldi - Harpsichord
Rossella Croce - Violin
Luigi Lupo - Flute
Alberto Rasi - Viola

Editor's info:
Fifteen years after his Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin, Rameau once again turns his attention to an instrumental work, for what will be the last
time, inspired by the new potential for chamber music glimpsed in the use of the concertante keyboard. The 1741 collection is the only new work he
produced between 1740 and 1744, before returning to the musical theatre – to which he will dedicate the rest of his lifeThe most attractive aspect of
the Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts, and the one which provides the most authentic reading of the work, is the multiplicity of possible combinations in
performance between the instruments indicated in the score (harpsichord, violin/flute, viola da gamba/2nd violin ), following the detailed instructions
that Rameau provides for each of them in the various Avis in the preface of the printed edition. The author’s intention was undoubtedly for the
harpsichord and its virtuosic protagonism to be the backbone of the Pièces; however, the possibilities of alternative timbric arrangements are
specifically contemplated by Rameau for this work. What was a widespread ad libitum performance practice, today becomes an extremely inviting
challenge for modern performers in terms of tonal reinvention of the pieces. Thus, with each new reading the music may be reinvented, making in turn
every new listening experience a rediscovery and a revelation.

After Bach’s Kunst der Fuge, Alberto Rasi and his Accademia Strumentale Italiana take on a new challenge, recording the contemporary French
masterpiece by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
The great novely of the Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts is its concertante nature: “as it is not only necessary that the three instruments blend with
one another, but also that the concertante parts listen to one another” as the author himself writes in the A.......
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