Rameau/ Ensemble Les Surprises - Rameau Chez la PompadourThe famous Marquise de Pompadour, favorite of King Louis XV for nearly twenty years, reigned over the arts at court. Rameau, whom she particularly admired, was omnipresent. He received a specific commission for the Thtre des Petits Appartements, where the Marquise herself sang in the midst of a troupe of amateurs and professionals: the result was Les Surprises de l'Amour, from which the ensemble Les Surprises takes it's name. Under the expert

performing and recording into the 1990s

Whether it's just catching fireflies or going to big festivals

arranger Maxwell Davis on tenor sax & Al 'Cake' Wichard on drums

although the smoother Nashville sound certainly characterised many of the hits and there was more than a smattering of artists who enjoyed big crossover hits

and Johann Baptist Gansbacher

A year later

giving the expression "Searching for Ludwig" a concrete reality in sound

2010 two CD release

helped to diffuse it throughout Europe

and serve to remind US of the commonalities of human existence

and a bonus "on the set" featurette with stars Dempsey and Eric Dane

A number of arias by J