Raphaël Pichon leads Rameau and Gluck with the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Raphaël Pichon & Concertgebouw Orchestra

The French conductor Raphaël Pichon is a radiant young star in the world of Baroque music. On his debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he takes us to the ancient world of the gods. From the underworld and the Elysian Fields, we climb to the summit of Mount Olympus. And all this is guided by well-known and lesser-known music, notably by Rameau, but also by Gluck and Rebel. The heavenly voices of Julie Roset and Stéphane Degout do the rest.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

In *The Domain of the Gods* , the triptych that Pichon composed especially for the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau takes center stage. But the first movement begins with the sounds, shocking at the time, with which Jean-Féry Rebel depicted the chaos before creation. And naturally, we can only escape the underworld by following Orpheus, whom Gluck portrayed so realistically in *Orfeo ed Eurydice* . When we finally reach Olympus, the most divine dance music Rameau could imagine sounds.