With top-quality Baroque works performed in the Bay Area each year, music lovers might be tempted to think they’ve heard everything the era produced. But this weekend at Zellerbach Hall, audiences are ...

A few weeks ago, a new recording of Claude Debussy and Jean-Philippe Rameau works by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson arrived in the mail courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon. I wondered at the pairing ...

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Nicholas McGegan. Photo by Randy Beach. Conductor Nicholas McGegan, of San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra fame (and so much more) is an expert in conducting Baroque music. To some of us at ...

During his lifetime, Rameau was widely regarded as the greatest French composer of the age, yet within a few decades of his death, his music had fallen into neglect. It took a century for the Rameau ...

We feature an arrangement of a piece French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote for harpsichord. Harpist Rachel Harris, violinist Amy Kauffman, harpsichordist Christina Scott Eleden and cellist Fred ...

Without the entrancing and witty staging that often accompanies live William Christie productions, these two ballet-operas do tend to come off--in the words of the composer’s biographer, Cuthbert ...