An educational programme featuring early music. As part of our series about theatre music, you will be able to listen today to ‘Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme’, a comedy ballet on text from Molière, with music from Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 – 1687)
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme:
1. Overture
Act 1
2. Air L’élève de Musique
3. Air La Musicienne
4. Dialogue en Musique
5. Air
Act 2
6. 1er Air [des garçons tailleur]
7. 2e Air (gavotte)
(Act 3 is without music)
Act 4
8. 1ère chanson à boire
9. 2me chanson à boire
10. La cérémonie Turque
(Act 5 is without music)
Ballet des Nations
11. Quatrième entrée
12. Sixième entrée
Siegmund Nimsgern, bass-baritone. Rachel Yakar, soprano. René Jacobs, countertenor. Sigiswald Kuijken, leader. La Petite Bande conducted by Gustav Leonhardt.
(CD: Lully/Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Campra, L’Europe Galante. RCA GD 77059, 1988-1990, recording 1973)
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