The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures. By Zachary Woolfe Listen to our critics’ ...

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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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 ...

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson had a recording career before signing with the German monolithe Deutsche Grammophon, having released three recordings for his own label, Dirrindí. In 2016, Ólafsson ...

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 ...

A small chess set rests on a table in the moments before the beginning of Spooky Action Theater's "Rameau's Nephew," and one might well view this item of scenery as a hopeful omen. After all, ...