In a collaboration with the Baroque Music Center of Versailles, this new album by Arion—which includes the program of their eponymous concert nominated for the 2021-2022 Opus Prize— transports us to the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV, of Versailles in Fontainebleau in the splendour of the royal festivities and the music which accompanied them. In the spotlight are Michel-Richard Delalande, André Cardinal Destouches François-Colin de Blamont, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and François Francoeur, composers who held various official functions at the court of France with an assemblage of works taken from collections of suites dances, opera-ballet or comedy-ballet of these. Festive musical features, worldly cheerfulness, peaceful and majestic tunes constitute the musical material that the superintendent of music at Arion, Mathieu Lussier, captures and renders perfectly with all the spirit and vivacity of the time, giving the necessary depth to this repertoire: a treat of fine musical cuisine, with tunes that stick to our ears and that we can consume without moderation.
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