In the Versailles of the Kings of France, music was omnipresent at the great ceremonial feasts. Louis XV had the Opéra Royal built in 1770 to house the official wedding celebrations of his three grandchildren. The cornerstone of the ceremony was the grand ceremonial dinner, accompanied throughout by music that covered the hubbub of the assembled courtiers and the noise of the service at table. For the wedding of the Comte d'Artois (the future Charles X) in 1773, the orchestral refinement was matched only by the dramatic power and choreographic energy of the setting. Alexis Kossenko gives these festive pieces the luxury of being performed by a full orchestra, on the very stage where they were performed for this historic wedding!
Works:
•Bernard Bury: Air en chaconne vive - Air ajoute a Armide de Lully
• Bernard Bury: Air lent & Rondeau leger aus "Hylas et Zelis"
• Antoine Dauvergne: Air gay & Air tres vif aus "Enee et Lavinie"
• Francois Francour: Ouvertüre, Premiere & Deuxieme Gavottes, Air en rondeau aus "Armide de Lully"
• Francois Francour: Air grave & Chaconne aus "Ballet de la Paix"
• Francois Francour: Ouverture - Scanderberg
• Francois Francour: Air gracieux & Premier et Deuxieme Rondeau aus "Pyrame et Thisbe"
• Francois Francour: Airs vif & Contredance aus "Recueil de differents airs de symphonie de M. Francoeur"
• Francois Francour: Air marque aus "Ballet de la Felicite"
• Francois Francour: Chaconne & Rondeau Gai aus "Le Prince de Noisy"
• Francois Francour: Air en rondeau aus "Rosiere de Salency"
• Francois Francoeur & Francois Rebel: Premier Menuet (Rebel & Deuxieme Menuet (Fancoeur) aus "L'Europe Galante de Campra"
• Jean-Claude Trial: Conctredanse vive aus "La Fete de Flore"
• Joseph Hyacinthe Ferrand: Rondeau gracieux aus "Zelie"
• Louis Granier: Air gracieux
• Mondonville: Premier & Deuxieme Gavottes aus "Isbe
• Musette aus "Titon et l'Aurore"
• Musette aus "Le Carnaval du Parnasse
• Royer: Rondeau gracieux & Chasse en rondeau aus "Zaide"
• Royer: Chaconne aus "Pyrrhus"
• Pierre-Montan Berton: Air vif aus "Camille reine des Volsques de Campra"
• Pierre-Montan Berton: Chaconne aus "Iphigenie en Tauride"
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Air majesteux & Marche aus "Les Fetes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour"
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Premiere et Deuxieme Gavottes, Premier et Deuxieme Tambourins & Rondeau aus "Dardanus"
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zais-Ouvertüre
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Menuet gracieux aus "Le Temple de la Gloire
• Rene de Galard de Bearn (Marquis de Brassac): Air aus "L'Empire de l'Amour"