Debussy · Rameau by Víkingur Ólafsson. Picture: Deutsche Grammophon Debussy and Rameau – Víkingur Ólafsson Deutsche Grammophon Following the success of his award-winning J.S. Bach album, Icelandic ...

When Víkingur Ólafsson was about 5 years old, he already knew what he wanted to be. "It sounds crazy, but I always saw myself as a concert pianist," he says. "Even if I wasn't a good pianist." Over ...

If there’s one composer who embodies the French musical genius it must surely be Jean-Philippe Rameau, the 250th anniversary of whose death is being marked with a string of performances at this year’s ...

In France, he is revered; in Britain he is barely performed. As ENO prepares its first-ever production of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Curnyn applauds the legacy of a revolutionary who has always ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most ...

It’s taken almost 300 years for the French composer’s genre-crossing opéra-ballet to come to the UK, with a Royal College of Music staging opening tomorrow. Why the wait? This week the Royal College ...

This inviting new release by Berkeley pianist Jeffrey LaDeur is at once a handsome and intimate performance of Debussy, and also a music-historical proposition — namely, that some of the music ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

He courted controversy during his own lifetime, but Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) changed the course of musical history, first as a theorist, and then as a composer of some of the most influential ...

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

Sophie Yates visits the Russell Collection in Edinburgh to play Rameau's music on three double-manual French harpsichords made in the late 1700s. Show more Sophie Yates visits The Russell Collection ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim On Friday evening the conductor William Christie and his period-instrument ensemble Les Arts Florissants ...