Dorian Recordings
DOR-90272
Music of the Baroque French Court and Theatre
Chatham Baroque
Julie Andrijeski, Violin
Emily Davidson, Violin
Patricia Halverson, Viola da Gamba
Scott Pauley, Theorbo & Baroque Guitar
Danny Mallon, Guest Percussionist
When one thinks of dance music at the French baroque court of Louis XIV, visions of lavish productions involving orchestras, choruses, dancers and actors immediately come to mind. Indeed, there were countless ballets, operas, and divertissements which all employed large numbers and varieties of instruments and players. The opera Alceste, for example, is said to have employed no less than 30 lutes in the orchestra, and one of the most famous fêtes, a celebration which took place in Versailles in 1664, required "a small army" of entertainers, including many musicians, to amuse over six hundred invited guests over the course of nine days! … Louis XIV adored music and dance, and therefore surrounded himself with it from the moment he awoke until he dropped off to sleep. For this purpose, the monarch chose the best vocalists, lutenists, gambists, harpsichordists and violinists to entertain as he saw fit.
- Julie Andrijeski
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Suite Italienne [1.] Symphonie de Logistile - Jean-Baptiste Lully [2.] Ritournelle d'alma mia - Michel-Richard de Lalande [3.] [Untitled 6/4] - Anon. [4.] Plainte Italienne de Psyche - Lully [5.] Premier Aire - Lully [6.] Les Oyseaux - Lully [7.] La Chaconne d'Amadis - Lully  L'Empire de l'amour - René de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac [8.] Les Mortels: Ritournelle [9.] Les Genies: Deuxième Air. Rondeau [10.] Les Dieux: Psiché Ritournelle [11.] Prologue: Sarabande [12.] Les Dieux: Deuxième Air. Musette [13.] Les Dieux: Premier Tambourin Le Divertissement Royal [14.] Ritournelle des Amazons - Lully [15.] Trio de Monsieur Charpentier - Marc-Antoine Charpentier [16.] Jouissons - Lully [17.] Tu m'abandone Ingrat Tircis - Anon. [18.] Ritournelle - Anon. [19.] Les Contrefaisseurs - Lully [20.] Passacaille d'Armide - Lully Trios pour le coucher du Roy - Lully [21.] Premier Trio [Symphonie] [22.] 2a. Trio en suitte [23.] Sarabande [24.] 4a. Trio en suitte "dans nos bois" [25.] Minuet, "La jeune Iris me fait" [26.] Ritournelle de Scocapur [27.] Meuet en suitte [28.] 2nd Menuet en suitte [29.] 3rd Menuet en suitte Suite Pastorale [30.] La March Royalle - André Danican Philidor [31.] Beaux yeux de climenne - Anon. [32.] Le beau berger Tirsis/Belle et charmante Brune/Tirsis - Anon. [33.] Laissons la nos troupeaux - Anon. [34.] Vodevilles - Anon. [35.] De dans mon petit redhuy - Anon. [36.] Menuet almants - Anon. [37.] Vodeville - Anon. [38.] La Muzette de Mr.Mouret - Jean-Joseph Mouret [39.] Le Cotillion en suitte - Mouret [40.] Menuet almants - Anon. Total Program Length: 64.55 |
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