| | In Convertendo DVD Les Arts Florissants / Rameau CDS
Soundtrack English; English Subtitles In Convertendo | List Price | $19.99 (You save $3.80) | | Studio | Naxos | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  57863  | | CD Universe Part number | 7255992 | | Catalog number | 956DVD | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 29, 2006 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Rameau - In Convertendo Dominus | | Running Time | 97 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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In Convertendo DVD Jean-Philippe Rameau was still a young musician when he moved to Lyon, where he probably composed his few surviving motets, including the Grand Motet In Convertendo, here performed by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, which anticipates Rameau's orchestration in his later operatic works. The wonderful fugue on Psalm 126 (verse 6) Euntes ibant et flebant (They went forth and wept) bears comparison with similar works by his contemporary, J. S. Bach.
In addition to a full performance of In Convertendo, this DVD presents some of Rameau's key chamber music pieces and an insightful music documentary, The Real Rameau, which sheds light on the life of a composer who thought only of music, dreaming of a universal harmony and regarding music as an example to all the arts and, indeed, to all the sciences as well. Pictured by his contemporaries as a gaunt and taciturn man, ill-suited to courtly surroundings, his work was described by Berlioz as ‘one of the most sublime conceptions of dramatic music'.
‘These motets contain gorgeous music: they are to some degree concert music as much as religious music, and indeed the version of In Convertendo that has survived is the revised one for the Concert Spirituel. Lengthy orchestral parts, ravishing solos accompanied by flutes, occasional interludes with oboes and bassoons, make a lot of the music lyrical, if not elegiac.'
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