Rameau's "Castor et Pollux".....c'est magnifique!

This aria from has amazed me from the first moment I heard it. What caught my ear was that it is apparent that Hector Berlioz had been influenced much more by Rameau than I had previously thought. Hearing this one aria made me think of "Les Troyens" and mainly from an orchestration standpoint. Rameau was the Baroque era's greatest orchestrator and it would seem that Berlioz had to have picked up something from the works of the master. This music blows me away.......magnifique!