Episode 2
Donald Macleod visits the Royal Chapel, Grand Apartments and the King's bedroom at the Palace of Versailles with Baroque specialists Olivier Baumont and Hervé Niquet and discovers what kinds of sacred and secular music were written for performance there during the reigns of Louis XIV and XV.
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Michel-Richard de Lalande
Magna opera Domini (Confitebor Tibi Domine)
Performer: Les Arts Florissants, Director: William Christie (director)
- Harmonia Mundi.
- HMC 901351,.
- 24.
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Henri Desmarets
De Profundis, fiant aures (excerpt from Psalm 129)
Performer: François-Nicolas Geslot (tenor), Performer: Le Concert Spirituel, Director: Hervé Niquet (director)
- Glossa.
- GCD921610.
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André Campra
Benedictus Dominos
Performer: Le Concert Spirituel, Director: Hervé Niquet (director)
- Accord.
- 472 236-2,.
- 1 to 7.
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Louis Couperin
La Ménetou (Septième Ordre)
Performer: Olivier Baumont
- BBC recording.
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Marc‐Antoine Charpentier
Les plaisirs de Versailles (excerpt)
Performer: Sophie Daneman (soprano), Performer: Katalin Kàrolyi (mezzo soprano), Performer: Steven Dugardin (counter tenor), Performer: Jean- François Gardeil (baritone), Performer: Les Arts Florissants, Director: William Christie (director)
- Erato.
- 0630 14774-2.
- 9 to 14.
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Louis Couperin
Premier concert (Concerts royaux) (excerpt)
Performer: Le concert des Nations, Performer: Jordi Savall (bass viol and direction)
- Alia Vox.
- AVSA 9840,.
- 1 -2.
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Marin Marais
Caprice (Pieces for viols)
Performer: Sophie Watillon, Performer: Friederike Heumann (bass viol), Performer: Xavier Diaz (theorbo), Performer: Evangelina Mascardi (baroque guitar), Performer: Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord)
- Alpha.
- 036,.
- 5.
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Robert de Visée
Gavotte en rondeau et sa contrepartie
Performer: Rafae Andia (baroque guitar)
- HMX.
- 2908147.79,.
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