thu 13 jan 2022 20:00 hrs
The baroque spirit in all his musical shapes.
‘Ballet Royal de La Nuit’, part 1. In February 1653 a spectacular party took place in the Louvre, with the highlight being a dancing 15-year-old Louis XIV. Louis XIV danced to the ‘Ballet Royal de La Nuit’ and gained the nickname ‘ the Sun King’. This is part one of the reconstruction of the ‘Ballet Royal de La Nuit’ by Sébastien Daucé.
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Louis XIV, ‘Le Roi Soleil’
In 2020 the French Ensemble Correspondances conducted by Sébastien Daucé released a CD-box with a remake of the ‘Ballet Royal de La Nuit’.
We will be sharing a large portion of this piece, in two episodes. Today we share the first two ‘veilles’ (companies or night watches).