Château De Versailles - Musiques De Cour Et D'op

Ricercar Consort; Capricio Stravagante Orchestra (Skip Sempe, dir.); Café Zimmermann; Frédérik Haas ; Sophie Watillon, ...

Lully : L'ile enchantée [Alpha 016] / Charpentier, Tristes déserts, Henri Ledroit [RIC278] / Couperin (2d livre de pièces de clavecin, publié en 1717) [Alpha 136] / Lully, Air d'Apollon [Alpha 074] / Campra, Mes Yeux [Alpha 016] / Marais, Folies d'Espagne [Alpha 036] / Charpentier, Stances du Cid, Henri Ledroit [Ricercar 278] / Lully [Alpha 074] / Reprise de la marche des turcs [Alpha 016]

The divertissements of the French court, renowned throughout Europe, were at their height during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715). Earlier genres, especially the air de cour and the air de ballet, were transformed in the tragédie lyrique, introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Within a few decades the combined talents of Molière and Lully, then Molière and Charpentier, produced the comédie-ballet (a fine example is Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, the 'Turkish March' from which has remained famous to this day), while the brilliant duo formed by Quinault and Lully worked on tragédies lyriques. These genres were to leave their mark on French music for the next hundred years and influence European music as well.

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