Catalogue # TMK1012CD

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“Ms. Lamon and Tafelmusik have earned high marks … the music’s\ngreatness might not be so obvious but for Tafelmusik’s fine period\nstyle …. It will have listeners wondering why this music is not as\nwell known as works by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.” - The New York\nTimes

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This re-release of orchestral suites from two stage works by\nJean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) marks the first occasion on which\nJEANNE LAMON, and the TAFELMUSIK ORCHESTRA, Toronto’s award-winning\nperiod instrument orchestra, recorded music of the French baroque.\nThe two suites featured on this CD are drawn from Rameau’s epic\nfive-act “tragédie en musique” Dardanus, and from the less familiar\n“opéra-ballet” Le Temple de la Gloire. Rameau was a mature composer\nof fifty before he completed his first opera - Hippolyte et Aricie\n(1733). Over the next six years, the dispute between the\nconservative Lullistes (i.e., Jean-Baptiste Lully) and the Ramistes\ncontinued to rage, climaxing with the semi-mythological tragedy\nDardanus in 1739. The furor eventually abated, however, and\nDardanus was acclaimed as one of Rameau’s finest achievements. Le\ntemple de la gloire - a commission celebrating France’s victory\nover British and Imperial forces at the Battle of Fontenoy - was\ncompleted in 1745.

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JUNO Award Winner 2005 – “Classical Album of the Year: Large\nEnsemble” & Grammy Award Nominee 2005

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