Every other June, music fans flock to the Boston Early Music Festival for a week-long extravaganza of some of the best historically informed performances of music anywhere in the world. Since its ...

In France, he is revered; in Britain he is barely performed. As ENO prepares its first-ever production of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Curnyn applauds the legacy of a revolutionary who has always ...

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

Debussy · Rameau by Víkingur Ólafsson. Picture: Deutsche Grammophon Debussy and Rameau – Víkingur Ólafsson Deutsche Grammophon Following the success of his award-winning J.S. Bach album, Icelandic ...

If there’s one composer who embodies the French musical genius it must surely be Jean-Philippe Rameau, the 250th anniversary of whose death is being marked with a string of performances at this year’s ...

Santon-Jeffrey/Vidal/Van Mechelen/Christoyannis/Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet (Glossa) Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour was first performed at Versailles in March 1747 to celebrate the wedding of ...

He courted controversy during his own lifetime, but Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) changed the course of musical history, first as a theorist, and then as a composer of some of the most influential ...

As part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season and in the second of this weekend's Early Music Shows dedicated to French Baroque music, Lucie Skeaping explores the relationship between Jean-Philippe ...

Sophie Yates visits the Russell Collection in Edinburgh to play Rameau's music on three double-manual French harpsichords made in the late 1700s. Show more Sophie Yates visits The Russell Collection ...