The World of Lully: Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Followers

The World of Lully: Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Followers

The World of Lully: Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Followers
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-04-01
Music Label: Cedille
Soundtracks:
  1. Lully: Premi?re Divertissement
  2. Jean-F?ry Rebel: Le Tombeau de Monsieur Lully
  3. Lully: Seconde Divertissement
  4. Lully, arr. Jean d'Anglebert: Pi?ces de clavecin
  5. Lully: Plainte de Cloris from Le Grand Divertissement Royal de Versailles
  6. Lully: Galliarde from Trios pour le coucher du roi
  7. Marin Marais: Tombeau de Lully from Second livre de pi?ces de violes
  8. Lully: Armide, Tragedie lyrique (selections)
  9. Vif (2:03)
  10. Lentement (2:43)
  11. Vivement (3:50)
  12. Les regrets (2:46)Seconde Divertissement (9:34) - LULLY
  13. Menuet from Alceste (0:58)
  14. C'est la saison d'aimer from Alceste (1:32)
  15. Recit: Suivons de si douces loix from Ballet d'Alcidiane (1:48)
  16. Gavotte from Amadis (1:16)
  17. Gigue -- Les plaisirs nous suivent from Amadis (3:56)Pi??ces de clavecin (7:35) - LULLY / arr. Jean d'Anglebert
  18. Ouverture de la Mascarade (3:53)
  19. Les songes agr??ables (1:54)
  20. Gigue (1:44)
  21. Plainte de Cloris from Le Grand Divertissement Royal de Versailles (5:26) - LULLY
  22. Galliarde from Trios pour le coucher du roi (3:07) - LULLY
  23. Tombeau de Lully from Second livre de pi??ces de violes (6:21) - MARIN MARAISArmide, Tragedie lyrique (selections) (15:50) - LULLY
  24. Recit: Enfin il est en ma puissance (3:18)
  25. Air: Venez, venez seconder mes desirs (1:10)
  26. Air (0:53)
  27. Passacaille (arr. d'Anglebert) (5:31)
  28. Recit: Le perfide Renaud me fuit (2:43)
  29. Air: Traitre, attens (2:11)TOTAL TIME (77:37)

Music reviews of The World of Lully: Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Followers

Music Review: A Baroque bonbon
Rating: 5 Stars

Lully lived only to age 55, when the baton with which he was beating time for an orchestra went through his foot, fatally as it turned out. The notes that accompany the new Cedille Records release of (CDR 90000 043) tell you in some detail about the contradictions of his life and works, so that need not occupy us here. What matters is the excellence of this program, which treats us to about 78 minutes of his music and that of two of his admirers, Marais and Rebel. Of Lully's output we have "Premiere Divertissement," "Seconde Divertissement," selections from "Armide," and some other short pieces. Although we will never know exactly how this music sounded back then, the Chicago Baroque Ensemble with soprano Patrice Michaels Bedi make a convincing argument for the authenticity of this performance. The playing just sparkles along and the French and English texts to the songs is thoughtfully supplied. Very much recommended to lovers of the Baroque and a very good introduction to those unfamiliar with French music of this period.

Description of The World of Lully: Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his Followers

Music in the age of Louis XIV revolved around the formidable composer and impresario Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), the dominant star in the Sun King's musical galaxy. On this CD, the Chicago Baroque Ensemble and soprano Patrice Michaels present solo and chamber arrangements of Lully's vocal and instrumental theater music. Intimate arrangements such as these were widely performed in salons during Lully's lifetime and long thereafter. For the sumptuous court at Versailles, Lully created music that would "soothe the ear and delight the senses . . . elegant, clear, and well-ordered" (Joseph Machlis, The Enjoyment of Music). Lully combined large baroque gestures with the minute refinement of the French "precieux" style, writes John Mark Rozendaal, the Chicago Baroque Ensemble's artistic director. "Perhaps it is this uncommon interplay between intimate and corporate expression that makes Lully's opera music so satisfying in chamber music renditions," Rozendaal says. The two Lully divertissements on the recording, arranged by the Chicago Baroque Ensemble, comprise song an dance sequences from Alceste, Amadis, Armide, Ballet d"alcidiane, Ballet de l'amour malade, Ballet Des Plaisirs, Pers??e, and Phaeton. The Galliarde from Trios pour le coucher du roi shows Lully working in the Italianate trio sonata format. La Plainte de Cloris, with words by Moli??re, is part of Lully's Le Grand Divertissement Royal de Versailles, a self-contained royal entertainment. Armide, Lully's last completed opera, contains some of his most renowned music. Lully prot??g??s Marais (1656-1728) and Jean-F??ry Rebel (1666-1747) each wrote a "Tombeau," a heartfelt musical tribute, to Lully. (Lully had, in a sense, "shot himself in the foot": He accidentally stabbed his own foot with the long conducting stick he used to beat time and died from an infection.) Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, a harpsichord virtuoso who was present at Lully's original productions, wrote arrangements of Lully's works. D'Anglebert's efforts show a mastery of counterpoint, ornamentation, and the harpsichord idiom.

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