Lully-Moliere - George Dandin, La Grotte de Versailles | Chateau de Versailles Spectacles CVS027

Lully-Moliere - George Dandin, La Grotte de Versailles

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Label: Chateau de Versailles Spectacles

Cat No: CVS027

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 9th October 2020

Contents

Artists

Ensemble Marguerite Louise

Conductor

Gaetan Jarry

Works

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

Georges Dandin
La Grotte de Versailles

Artists

Ensemble Marguerite Louise

Conductor

Gaetan Jarry

About

It was on 18 July 1668 that Moliere successfully performed George Dandin ou le mari confondu, a play mixed with a sung pastoral, for “Le Grand Divertissement Royal de Versailles” offered by Louis XIV to his Court, as a celebration of the Peace of Aachen. This amusing story of a rich peasant who purchases a young noble girl includes interludes set to the splendid music of Lully. The same year sees the promisaing meeting between Lully and Quinault: together they write for the King La Grotte de Versailles, in which Louis is glorified, and dances in person the role of a nymph. These two works, symbolic of the creative vigour of the early days of Versailles, and of the artistic appetite of a thirty-year-old Sovereign, are brought back to life thanks to Gaétan Jarry and the ensemble Marguerite Louise, with incomparable taste: tambourines, flutes and musettes are part of the festivities and the trumpets proclaim the glory of Louis. Here we have a scintillating echo of the sumptuous festivities given at Versailles by Louis XIV!

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