Jean-Baptiste Lully: Music for The Sun King’s State Occasions (selection), Musica Antiqua Köln

Jean-Baptiste Lully – „Le Roi Danse” - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: „Music for The Sun King’s State Occasions” (selection), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor) 01 - Te Deum, LWV 55: Symphonie – 00:00 02 - Intermèdes de Xerxes, LWV 12: Air pour Matelots Jouant des Trompettes Marines; Air pour les Esclaves et Singes Dansants; Air pour les Postures de Scaramouche; Air pour les Docteurs, Frivelins et Polichinelles – 02:12 03 - Idylle Sur La Paix, LWV 68: Air pour Madame La Dauphine – 06:37 04 - Persée, LWV 60: Entrée des Divinités Infernales – 08:40 05 - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LWV 43: Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs; Giourdina – 10:21 06 - Les Amants Magnifiques, LWV 42: Entrée d&– 13:35 07 - Le Triomphe de L&LWV 59: Ouverture; Entrée d&Act 4, Scene 2; Deuxieme Air – 14:35 Jean-Baptiste Lully, born Giovanni Battista Lulli (18 November 1632– 22 March 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered a master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. Jean-Baptiste Lully, was born in Florence in 1632 and arrived in France 14 years later. Appointed compositeur de la musique instrumentale in 1653 he remained in the exclusive service of the king for the next 34 years, drawing upon his extraordinary gift for mimicry and at every stage in his career adapting to the heroic image that Louis XIV had...