Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
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Lully: Ballet Music For The Sun King / Kevin Mallon, Et Al
Naxos
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Apr 29, 1998
The Aradia Baroque Ensemble, Mary Enid Haines & Sharla Nafziger, Sopranos. Conducted by Kevin Mallon. Recorded at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, Canada October 8-10, 1996. Played on original instruments.
Lully: Grand Motets Vol 1 / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel
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Aug 01, 1999
The court of Louis XIV was a lively and musically thriving place, and Jean-Baptiste Lully, who actually was Italian (Giovanni Battista Lulli) but became a naturalized French citizen, was right in the middle of it. As director of one of the king's orchestras and as Superintendent of the King's Music, Composer of the King's Chamber, and Master of Music of the Royal Family, Lully's job included providing music for various entertainments, mostly ballets and other orchestral and stage works. Sacred choral music came later in Lully's career, and this recording offers three of his most important masterpieces in this genre. The artful use of homophonic and polyphonic sections, double chorus, soloists, and orchestral color combine to give each of these substantial works the dramatic charge and forward-moving energy of a theatrical piece. Le Concert Spirituel, named and fashioned after an 18th-century concert organization that specialized in performance of French "Grands Motets", is an outstanding modern advocate for Lully's music, with fine soloists, an excellent chorus that knows the true meaning of "ensemble", and instrumentalists (and conductor) who understand the importance of rhythm in realizing this music's full effect. I look forward to Volume 2. [11/25/1999]--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
