Symphonies. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This edition unites all the purely instrumental and dance numbers from one of Rameau?s most popular operas, along with those from his last one-act opéra-ballet ?Io?, which was left unfinished at the time of his death. ?Platée? is the setting of a libretto by Jacques Autreau that Rameau arranged to be adapted for his own purposes, especially with regard to comic effects. In grotesque form, it shows Jupiter curing his wife Juno of her jealousy by feigning a marriage of love with the ugly swamp nymph Platée. Faced with such a ludicrous rival, Juno is forced to admit that her suspicions were unfounded. The opera was premièred in Versailles in 1745 for the wedding of the Dauphin Louis and Maria Theresia of Spain. The performance was a fiasco, however, for the coarse comedy and bizarre characters were deemed inappropriate by the wedding audience. It was not until 1749 in Paris that ?Platée? achieved its breakthrough, becoming Rameau?s greatest triumph to date. Another version with an altered text was performed from 1754 on. The plot of the fragmentary ?Io? deals with the amorous relations between the nymph Io and Jupiter in the guise of the shepherd Hylas, who becomes a rival of Apollo, disguised as Philemon. Now the inventive and richly varied orchestral numbers from this cruelly comical bonfire of the vanities can be presented in concert with greater flexibility. / Date parution : 2022-04-05/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Par WOLFF CHRISTIAN. Composed, as the title suggests, for the 80th birthday of Alvin Lucier on May 14, 2011, At 80, Plus for Alvin Lucier by Christian Wolff is largely open in form and can be performed by any players, with variable duration. The performing score, published here as a facsimile of the autograph manuscript, consists of 14 short phrases to be performed in any sequence, followed by a 15th concluding phrase. In addition, all but one of the phrases may be performed in any clef or any transposition. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Sonate en trio BWV Le 1038 est la première édition de musique de chambre pour flûte de Johann Sebastian Bach que Barthold Kuijken a préparé. Les chercheurs ont longtemps douté de la paternité de ce travail pour des raisons stylistiques, même si les pièces de performance de la principale source ont été écrits par Bach lui-même, mais malheureusement il a oublié, ou n'ont pas jugé nécessaire, d'ajouter son nom à la musique. Kuijken roule quelques arguments convaincants qui réfutent la thèse selon laquelle le jeune Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach a travaillé sur la version trio de la Sonate pour violon BWV 1022. L'édition examine également une variété de nouvelles découvertes sur l'origine de l'oeuvre dans la préface, et offre un Urtext irréprochable avec une partie style magistralement réalisé continuo, tous reflétant les normes les plus élevées de rédaction. / Musique De Chambre

Par ELIA ALESSIO. Commissioned by I Solisti della Scala for the CD ''Octet'', a project conceived by the conductor Andrea Vitello, which includes also the first recording in the performance of I Solisti della Scala of the Octet by Stravinsky and the first world recording of the Octet by Peter Eötvös, the Octet by Alessio Elia is described by the Italian musicologist Guido Barbieri in these terms: ''In the Octet written in 2016 by Alessio Elia, the musical elements, or their strongly contrasted combination, significantly shape the structure of the piece. The utilization of different scales - a technique defined by the composer as ''polysystemism'' - further emphasizes his concept of sound as a phenomenal entity.'' / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre