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Two viola da gamba players, two inspired soloists, two major composers of the century of Louis XIV: Marais and Sainte Colombe. What could be more sensually French? When Sainte Colombe published his Concerts à deux...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 25, 2021

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With the creation of his masterpiece Les Indes galantes in 1735, Rameau renewed the genre of opera-ballet with the presentation of separate independent tableaux, to include a series of crazy love stories involving exotic peoples,...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 26, 2021

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The most famous ‘Lecons de Tenebres’ are those of Francois Couperin, dating from 1714. At the end of the rein of Louis XIV, the sacred emotions composed by Couperin for his female singers would appear...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 09, 2021

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Night is falling. In this twilight of the reign of Louis XIV and at the end of his Grand Coucher, the king is at last free from protocol. He then orders the musicians of the...

Format: CD + DVD

Release Date: January 08, 2021

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With his Te Deum (1677), Lully produced a singularly important work, which was to impose an "official" genre which lasted a century: a chef-d’oeuvre of musical architecture, the imposing forces require trumpets and timpani and...

Format: DVD

Release Date: July 12, 2019

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At the height of his career as a viola da gamba player, Marais published this Suite d’un goût étranger (Suite with a Foreign Flavour) in 1717, a veritable voyage of initiation into the most unexpected...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 10, 2021

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Christmas time would make sacred music shined forth in monarchical France. The organists had free rein to improvise on the popular Nativity songs, which had been known to all the faithful for centuries, and amateurs...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 22, 2019

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One hundred and fifty years of harpsichord music at Versailles, under the reigns of Louis XIII, Louis XIV and Louis XV: French harpsichord music is inseparable from the Court, which gave rise to its greatest...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 24, 2021

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A musician of genius, Jean-Baptiste Lully put all his musical science at the service of intense oratorical emotion in the Grands Motets. These vast religious compositions, with their powerful dramatic character, were representative of the...

Format: CD

Release Date: February 26, 2021

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Gems of baroque music spirit and virtuosity, Handel’s concertos for organ and orchestra were composed to serve as intermezzos during his oratorios. Played at the time by Handel himself – he was known to be...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 22, 2021

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Around 1600, when opera was invented in Italy, Venice was resplendent with the works of Giovanni Gabrieli in the Basilica of San Marco. A daring amalgamation of Flemish and Italian styles, this is a corpus...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 11, 2021

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Jean-François Dandrieu mirrors himself: here is the King’s organist in his costume of chamber composer, reeds and flutes compete with the trills of the violin... It is rare to have two such dissimilar versions of...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 10, 2021

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Sémiramis tortured by Zoroastre’s spells, violence, incest, murder and magnificence: this is one of the most astonishing tragédies-lyriques! Its composer Destouches led an extraordinary life: a missionary in Siam, then a Musketeer in the Royal...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 25, 2021

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4-DISC PACKAGE INCLUDES 2CDs + 1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray In purgatory, the Ghosts of Versailles are waiting impatiently for Beaumarchais’ new play: what if he manages to save Marie Antoinette from the scaffold? Here...

Format: CD + DVD + Blu-Ray

Release Date: May 14, 2021

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Campra was the most important opera composer between Lully and Rameau. The success of Europe Galante in 1697 is a tribute to this founding work of the Opera-Ballet, mixing dance and opera in the opulent...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 28, 2018