RAMEAU PIÈCES DE CLAVECIN EN CONCERTS ENSEMBLE MASQUES OLIVIER FORTIN ACD2 2624 RAMEAU AND HIS FRIENDSHIPS The friendship of a great man is a gift of the Gods. Voltaire, Oedipus, 1718. Diderot paints an amusing and quite satirical portrait of Jean-Philippe Rameau in Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nephew), which he began writing in 1762.   Diderot depicts the composer through the conversation of his nephew Jean-Francois, a failed musician.   It's true that the composer, who died in 1764, a few days short of his 81st birthday was, towards the end of his life, quite unsociable, just as Diderot portrays him.   He was, in fact, a systematic misanthrope, engaged in fierce and unsparing polemic with the philosophers and writers who sided with Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the incessant quarrels between the partisans of Italian and of French music.   But he was not always like that — as is demonstrated by the 21 years that he spent, several decades earlier, in the household of the financier Alexandre Joseph Le Riche de La Poupliniere. … François Filiatrault, 2009 Translated by Sean McCutcheon ENSEMBLE MASQUES OLIVIER FORTIN CLAVECIN | HARPSICHORD ANNE THIVIERGE FLÛTE | FLUTE SOPHIE GENT VIOLON | VIOLIN MELISANDE CORRIVEAU BASSE DE VIOLE | VIOL QUATRIÈME CONCERT   1 || La Pantomime     5:13   2 || L'Indiscrète     7:28   3 || La Rameau     4:40 DEUXIÈME CONCERT   4 || La Laborde     6.22   5 || La Boucon     4:18   6 || L'Agaçante     7:53   7 || 1er Menuet et 2e Menuet     4:36 PREMIER CONCERT   8 || La Coulicam     3:39   9 || La Livri     2:55 10 || Le Vézinet     3:30 TROISIÈME CONCERT 11 || La La Poplinière     4:30 12 || La Timide 1er et 2e rondeau     5:50 13 || 1er Tambourin et 2e tambourin     2:03 CINQUIÈME CONCERT 14 || La Forqueray (FUGUE)     4:36 15 || La Cupis     6:09 16 || La Marais     2:41 ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879