Chorégraphie: Music for Louis XIV's dancing masters

Chorégraphie: Music for Louis XIV's dancing masters

Chorégraphie: Music for Louis XIV's dancing masters
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Composer: Jean-Henri d'Anglebert
Composer: Andre Campra
Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Composer: Ennemond Gaultier
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Marin Mersenne
Composer: William Brade
Composer: Andrew Lawrence-King
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
  1. Prelude In C
  2. Entree Espagnole
  3. Entree: Air Pour Les Paysans Et Paysanes
  4. Le Louvre
  5. La Mariee De Rollant
  6. Sarabande Pour Une Femme
  7. Bouree Pour Les Basques
  8. Chaconne Du Vieux Gautier
  9. La Contredance
  10. Entree D'Apollon
  11. Suite La Bourgogne: Courante-Bouree-Sarabande-Passepied
  12. Gigues: Gigues A Deux-Gigue Pour Homme
  13. Overture: Le Retour Des Plaisirs
  14. Courante: La Bocanesc
  15. Sarabande
  16. La Vignonne
  17. Pavane Des Saisons
  18. Giallarde
  19. Passacaille D'Armide
  20. Prelude IN D Minor
  21. Entree Espagnole
  22. Les Folies D'Espagne
  23. Chaconne D'Amadis

Music reviews of Chorégraphie: Music for Louis XIV's dancing masters

Music Review: One of my new favorite CDs
Rating: 5 Stars

This CD consists of music published in _Choregraphie_ by Raoul-Auger Feuillet (1700), the first dance instruction book to depict dance movements symbollically rather than with words. It is divided into five (unequal) sections: Entrée, Suite, Passacaille, A l'Espagnole, and Chaconne. Most of the music comes from Lully and Campra, with a few pieces by Gaultier, Mersenne, Brade, and D'Anglebert, who also arranged much of the operatic music for solo instruments. In addition, the CD includes some very interesting and informative liner notes, with illustrations, placing the music in the context of Louis XIV's court.

I'm no music expert, but as far as I can tell, Andrew Lawrence King performs marvellously - really, it's amazing what he can do on the baroque triple harp. There is a wide variety of music here, some of it exciting and some relaxing, but always interesting.

I've never reviewed a classical CD before (or any CD for that matter), so I'm not quite sure what to say... I just thought there should be another review than the one complaining about our uncertainty of the tempi. The editorial review above puts it much better than I ever could though. In any case, I greatly enjoy listening to "Choregraphie," particularly since the harp is one of my favorite instruments and I like Baroque dance music, but really, I think anyone would enjoy this fascinating and unique CD. I'm glad I bought it and I highly recommend it.

[P.S., in case anyone cares, the disc is packaged not in a jewel case like most CDs, but in a kind of cardboard case that opens like a book. I do not see this as a drawback but thought I would mention it just so people know.]
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Chorégrapie was a book by Raoul-Auger Feuillet published in 1700 that depicted dance movements using symbols rather than mere words, and it changed the way choreographers approached their art. Motions could be recorded for all time showing the movement of feet within bar-lines indicating tempos, and symbols stood for leaping, turning, pointing the toe, arm positions, etc. More than 300 dances were notated, and this allowed courts all over Europe to emulate what was going on in the Royal Court of France, the dance center of the world. This information is fascinating but unnecessary for enjoying the music played here. Mostly by Lully and Campra, the music was chosen by Feuillet to show off the various styles in use at Court, and Andrew Lawrence-King on the Baroque triple harp plays it all with such skill and love that the mind reels. Graceful and dynamic by turns, virtuoso Lawrence-King gets the most astonishing collection of sounds out of one instrument: the CD is never boring or repetitive. There are knock-down percussive moments, graceful arpeggios, and everything in between. The dynamics can sound rich and dark or ethereal. A piece by Marin Marais will be familiar to fans of that composer even in this arrangement, and a Passacaille from Lully's Armide sounds, oddly, like a Boccherini fandango. This is a wonderful surprise. --Robert Levine

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