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Composer of the Week: Music at Versailles

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4/5. At the Palace of Versailles, Donald Macleod visits the Peace Drawing Room favoured by Louis XV's wife Marie Leszczynska for her musical soirees and the famous Hall of Mirrors, where a disguised
Louis XV met Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson , the future Madame de Pompadour. With Olivier Baumont. Rameau Airpolonois (Les indes galantes) Daquin Premiere suite (excerpt) Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)
Campra Prologue ; Overture; La France (L'Europe galante) Rachel Yakar (soprano), La Petite Bande , director Gustav Leonhardt
Rameau Suite: Platée (excerpt) Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan Mondonville Regna terrae, cantate Deo Judith Nelson (soprano), William Christie (harpsichord), Stanley Ritchie (violin) Mozart Sonata in D, K7
Olivier Baumont (harpsichord) Repeated at 10pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Marie Leszczynska
Unknown:
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
Unknown:
Olivier Baumont.
Harpsichord:
Olivier Baumont
Harpsichord:
Campra Prologue
Soprano:
Rachel Yakar
Soprano:
La Petite Bande
Director:
Gustav Leonhardt
Conductor:
Nicholas McGegan
Conductor:
Mondonville Regna
Soprano:
Deo Judith Nelson
Soprano:
William Christie
Harpsichord:
Stanley Ritchie
Harpsichord:
Olivier Baumont
Source: Radio Times

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