Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I cannot enter a house without being told of the horrors of this opera,” complained an English visitor to ...

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 ...

Devos/Gens/Van Mechelen/Christoyannis/Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie/Kossenko (Alpha, three CDs) A rare recording of Rameau’s unrevised original, compelling at times but mainly of interest to ...

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 ...

Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee. A colourful work, it turned many of the operatic conventions of the 18th century on their head. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at Jean ...

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 ...

There has been plenty of Rameau in 2014, the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. Before it is too late, here is Mahan Esfahani with a two-CD set of the complete works for solo harpsichord, ...

This week Donald Macleod explores Jean-Philippe Rameau’s operas. Upon his death in 1764 Rameau had more than 30 stage works to his name, a remarkable achievement considering he did not write his first ...