"If I couldn't be Rameau, there's no one I'd rather be than Mondonville," wrote Daquin after the first performance of Mondonville's Titon et I'Aurore. So successful was the premiere at the Academie Royale de Musique in January 1753 that the work was performed 35 times during the following season.
Jeremy Summerly is joined by Graham Sadler to discuss this heroic pastorale and its part in the famous dispute between advocates of French and Italian music
- the Querelles des Bouffons.
Frangoise Herr Vocal Ensemble, Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
Producer Kate Bolton. WEB SITE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/current/CW/