Tragédie in one Prologue and Five Acts. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Rameau Castor et Pollux RCT 32A-B (Versions from 1737 and 1754) Symphonies (Full Score) Symphonies / Versions from 1737 and 1754 This collection of all instrumental numbers from 'Castor et Pollux' (tragédie in a prologue and five acts) brings together the movements and dances of all versions based on the volumes of the ?Opera Omnia Rameau? IV.3 (version 1737, BA08874-01) and IV.23 (version 1754, BA08864-01). Orchestras can use this to compile a suite to meet their needs aided by a register which offers a separate overview sorted by key. The performance material of the 'Symphonies' is available on hire in the accustomed high quality of the ?Opera Omnia Rameau?. - Compilation of the instrumental numbers from all opera versions - Overview of the keys to enable a tailor-made compilation of orchestral suites - Based on the scholarly-critical new edition of all original versions - Performance material available for hire / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Richer than ever – Rameau’s “Zoroastre” in the version of 1756. Opera in five acts. Rameau’s revised version of his opera “Zoroastre”, which could be heard and seen between 20 January 1756 and 26 March 1757 at the Académie royale de musique, was favourably received. Also from today’s point of view the work profits dramaturgically from many of the changes and seems altogether richer and more tightly woven than the original of 1749. The subject matter of the libretto, derived from Ancient Persian sources, is timeless: the struggle between good and bad. The good is embodied by the religious reformer Zoroastre, a representative of the supreme light being Orosmade. He is opposed by the ambitious magician Abramane who serves Ariman, the spirit of the dark. The opera includes some of Rameau’s most ecstatic and spiritual musical numbers, such as the episode of sun worship in Act 3 with the sublime „Hymne à la Lumière“, which, for unknown reasons, was not integrated in the revision of 1756. It is therefore included in Appendix 3 of this Bärenreiter edition. Incidentally, with “Zoroastre” the prologue, wh ich had been customary since the beginnings of French opera in the 1670s, was abandoned. Instead Rameau was the first to introduce an overture which set the scene for the entire drama and thereby anticipated Gluck’s opera reform by many years. Here we present the instrumental numbers for concert performance. - Based on the first scholarly-critical edition, published as part of “Opera Omnia Rameau” - Instrumental numbers in order of performance, but also grouped by key in the list of contents, enabling them to be combined freely into orchestral suites - Published with performance material on hire / Date parution : 2022-11-08/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Symphonies-The heroic pastoral Daphnis et Eglé was performed only once on 29 October 1753 for the entertainment of King Louis XV at Fontainebleau and remained unpublished until today.Our complete edition (BA 8862) is based on Rameau's autograph manuscript a copy of the separate parts and the libretto published by Ballard in 1753. A comparison of the sources reveals two versions of the work: the original version and the one revised for Fontainebleau whereby the differences lie mainly in the final divertissement. This edition recommends the Fontainebleau version?which is actually more complete in its musical form in particular with its overture and two ariettas?but alsoreconstructs the original state of the final divertissement (presented in the appendix) before it was revised.Here we present the instrumental numbers from both operas for concert performance.Based on the first scholarly-critical edition published as part of ?Opera Omnia RameauInstrumental numbers in order of performance but also grouped by key in the list of contents enabling them to be combined freely into orchestral suitesPublished with performance material on hire

Le Temple de la Gloire RCT 59. Rameau?s only extant opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has come down to us in two versions (1745 and 1746), that of 1745 having long been regarded as lost. Volume IV.12 of the ?Opera omnia Rameau? now provides a complete edition for the first time and thus the means to perform both versions. Voltaire refers to Metastasio in his libretto, in that he wanted to liberate the opera from the gallant milieu in order to make it a moralising and at the same time both edifying and political work of art for the stage. Following a prologue dedicated to the personified Envy, the tyrants Bélus and Bacchus are chased out of the Temple of Glory and Trajan is finally crowned with a laurel wreath for defeating the rebels, forgiving them and then transforming the Temple of Glory into a public temple. The music contains many remarkable passages, examples being a richly orchestrated overture, the famous monologue ?Profonds abîmes du Ténare? with obbligato bassoons and Trajan?s artful final scene ?Ramage d?oiseaux?. The opera?s individual instrumental movements are also available in the customary manner now as a practical separate edition. The performance material is available on hire.

Rameau's 'Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour? was long considered second-rate because its première was associated with a political event. Yet this ballet abounds in novel dramaturgical effects that foreshadow his later operas, such as 'Zaïs?, 'Zoroastre? and 'Les Boréades?. Working together with his librettist Cahusac, Rameau sought to weave the dance numbers, choruses and stage machinery more tightly into the main plot. He also experimented with stylistic devices unique to this work, the most famous being unquestionably the scene in which the Nile overflows its banks (an impressive ten-voice double chorus with solo voices and orchestra) and the sextet from 'Aruéris?, a scoring found nowhere else in his oeuvre.For the first time, this scholarly-critical edition of 'Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour? presents a reference version of the work that is based on all the major sources for both the libretto and the music, including two recent musical discoveries. As most of the performance material for the première has vanished, our edition is based on the version prepared for the Académie Royale de Musique in 1748.- Milestone of French Baroque opera in performance practice orientated vocal score- With a brief foreword (Fr/Eng) containing salient information on the genesis of the work, the synopsis and the edition / Orchestre