Rameau Revisited takes themes from the operas and keyboard works of the great Baroque composer Jean-Phillipe Rameau and recasts them to exploit the various colours of the modern brass band. The two outer movements, Marche and Tambourin are tour de force display pieces for the full ensemble while the three inner movements, Rondeau, La Joyeuse and Danse showcase the horn, cornet and lower brass sections in turn.
About the Composer Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was the leading French composer of his time. Born in Dijon, two years before the year of birth of Handel, Bach and Domenico Scariatti, Rameau spent the earlier part of his career principally as organist at Clermont Cathedral. By 1723 he was resident in Paris, publishing his important Treatise on Harmony and collections of music for harpsichord. These consisted largely of genre pieces and dances in the established tradition of French keyboard music.
From 1733 he devoted himself largely to the composition of opera and to his work as a theorist, the first under the patronage of a rich amateur, in whose house he had an apartment. In the later part of his career Rameau also wrote a series of suites, the Pièces de clavecin en concerts, for harpsichord, flute or violin and second violin or tenor viol.
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