Complete Works for Solo Keyboard

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Summary: Rameau is the apex of the french keyboard tradition.
Review: Rameau is the apex of french harpsichord music. He has an excellent mastery of chromatisism offset by a firm grasp of counterpoint.His music reflects a wide variety of styles,from a Couperinesque simplicity to an almost Bachian complexity.he often incorperates folk-like melodies,and elaborates them in a form of consumate mastery, bringing them up from their humble beginings and transforming them into works of consumate mastery. he is the fully worhty developement of three hundred years of french musical advancement,and certainly the successor to all the genius therin.

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Summary: The Wrong Edition
Review: This edition "took such liberties with the original in the matter of ornaments" (cf. C. Girdlestone, Jean-Philippe Rameau; his life and work, rev. & enl. ed.). If you want a reliable and scholarly edition, find the Jacobi one.