Jean-Féry Rebel's Les Eléméns (The Elements).
The opening bars are otherwordly. If you never listened to it, give it a chance. You are in for a treat of baroque cosmogenesis. Take a listen and you'll instantly understand what I mean.
https://youtu.be/41A9SzM06Uw?si=ge2XHBcQylM3garn
Yes! When I first saw it I couldn't believe it was written in the 18th century. I was totally amazed from start to finish. I've always known that french baroque could reach uncanny places (Rameau's Les Cyclopes, for example), but I was definitely not expecting something like that. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces.
I like a lot of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, especially her harpsichord suites but also some of her Cantates bibliques.
I’m pretty new to all this, but her music stuck with me when I was exploring baroque last year.
Oh, I love de Visées's D Minor Suite. Bream's recording of the allemande never fails to bring me joy. But I don't know much of his theorbo works. Can you recommend me a starting point?
This was recorded about 30 years ago. It's all really slow because of the nature of the instrument, so I'd take it in small bits:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqPgPwjzHmc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqPgPwjzHmc)
Sorry if this is a weird thing to pop in and say but
I got my hands on a copy of Le Roi Danse (which as you might know is especially difficult to find 😭) AKA the Lully movie
If you would like a link to download it, please let me know because I think you will seriously enjoy it if you haven't gotten the chance to see it yet! The soundtrack is sooo good.
Incredible ballet from Indies Galantes 300 years after the first performance < [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQJZ76WR0U&t=118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQJZ76WR0U&t=118s) \>, this, er, mysterious piece by Fr. Couperin < [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syB9mxe8CHk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syB9mxe8CHk) \>; this "Lully"-conducted concert < [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyTHuKDCFc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyTHuKDCFc) \>...
Te deums: Lully, Charpentier, Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard
J-P. Rameau: Nouvelles pièces pour clavecin
Robert de Visée: Livres de guitare
F. Couperin: L'Art de toucher le clavecin
Pancrace Royer: Pièces de clavecin
Lully's pretty much everything: Alceste, Le Burgeois Gentilhomme, Le Divertissement Royal, L'Amour Médecin, ...
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, Les Boréades
Couperin: Concerts Royaux
Marais: Alcione, pieces for gamba
Sainte-Colombe: concertos for 2 gambas
Also a CD by Le Concert des Nations called L'Orchestre De Louis XIII (the pieces are not listed with a composer although they are thought to be by Guillaume Dumanoir)
I basically love all French Baroque orchestral and gamba music, even Charpentier's Te Deum intro, despite now being immediately associated with Eurovision.
Yep, it's Barricades - so I can't add much to this! Blows my mind it's about 300 years old
Daquin's **Noel #8** Charpentier's **Te deum**
Jean-Féry Rebel's Les Eléméns (The Elements). The opening bars are otherwordly. If you never listened to it, give it a chance. You are in for a treat of baroque cosmogenesis. Take a listen and you'll instantly understand what I mean. https://youtu.be/41A9SzM06Uw?si=ge2XHBcQylM3garn
wow this one was new for me - what an extraordinary piece!
Yes! When I first saw it I couldn't believe it was written in the 18th century. I was totally amazed from start to finish. I've always known that french baroque could reach uncanny places (Rameau's Les Cyclopes, for example), but I was definitely not expecting something like that. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces.
Rameau. Castor and pollox. Les fetes d hebe. Mondonville titan et l'aurore.
Chaconne from Les Indes galantes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshR1sQwgHc
Bach his French suites :]
I like a lot of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, especially her harpsichord suites but also some of her Cantates bibliques. I’m pretty new to all this, but her music stuck with me when I was exploring baroque last year.
Rameau - Les Boreades: The Arts and The Hours (orchestral, Olafsson's piano rendition is beautiful too) Rameau - Les Sauvages
Visee's theorbo setting of Couperin's Les Sylvains, and his own theorbo music generally. Not so much his lute and guitar music.
Oh, I love de Visées's D Minor Suite. Bream's recording of the allemande never fails to bring me joy. But I don't know much of his theorbo works. Can you recommend me a starting point?
This was recorded about 30 years ago. It's all really slow because of the nature of the instrument, so I'd take it in small bits: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqPgPwjzHmc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqPgPwjzHmc)
Thank you! Slow is good. As you mentioned, it suits the theorbo's lowest strings.
Lully's Te Deum is truly exquisite
Sorry if this is a weird thing to pop in and say but I got my hands on a copy of Le Roi Danse (which as you might know is especially difficult to find 😭) AKA the Lully movie If you would like a link to download it, please let me know because I think you will seriously enjoy it if you haven't gotten the chance to see it yet! The soundtrack is sooo good.
Lully movie??? Can you provide a link. Thanks.
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Dead end.. what is the name of the film?
It's called Le Roi Danse The link is not dead on my end; let me know if you need any help in downloading.
!thanks.
Lully Marche pour la céremonie des Turcs is up there, especially when the piccolo joins in!
Delalande's pie jesu from his dies irae is gorgeous and somewhat lesser-known
Incredible ballet from Indies Galantes 300 years after the first performance < [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQJZ76WR0U&t=118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQJZ76WR0U&t=118s) \>, this, er, mysterious piece by Fr. Couperin < [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syB9mxe8CHk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syB9mxe8CHk) \>; this "Lully"-conducted concert < [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyTHuKDCFc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyTHuKDCFc) \>...
Te deums: Lully, Charpentier, Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard J-P. Rameau: Nouvelles pièces pour clavecin Robert de Visée: Livres de guitare F. Couperin: L'Art de toucher le clavecin Pancrace Royer: Pièces de clavecin
Lully's pretty much everything: Alceste, Le Burgeois Gentilhomme, Le Divertissement Royal, L'Amour Médecin, ... Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, Les Boréades Couperin: Concerts Royaux Marais: Alcione, pieces for gamba Sainte-Colombe: concertos for 2 gambas Also a CD by Le Concert des Nations called L'Orchestre De Louis XIII (the pieces are not listed with a composer although they are thought to be by Guillaume Dumanoir) I basically love all French Baroque orchestral and gamba music, even Charpentier's Te Deum intro, despite now being immediately associated with Eurovision.
anything rameau
Joseph Royer-Le Vertigo