Episode 4
Donald Macleod visits the Peace Drawing Room, favoured by Louis XV's wife Marie Leszczynska for her musical soirees. With music by Rameau, Daquin, Campra, Mondonville and Mozart.
At the Palace of Versailles, Donald Macleod visits the Peace Drawing Room favoured by Louis XV's wife Marie Leszczynska for her musical soirées and the famous Hall of Mirrors, where Louis XIV met Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson d'Étoilles, soon to be Madame de Pompadour, at the Yew Tree Ball. With Olivier Baumont.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Air polonois
Performer: Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)
- BBC Recording.
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Louis‐Claude Daquin
Premiere Suite (excerpt)
Artist: Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)
- Temperament-Radio France.
- TEM 316026/27,.
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André Campra
L'Europe galante (Prologue; Overture; La France)
Performer: Rachel Yakar (soprano) Artist: La Petite Bande Director: Gustav Leonhardt (director)
- DHM.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Platee Suite (excerpt)
Performer: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Conductor: Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
- Conifer Classics.
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Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville
Regna, terra, Cantate Deo
Performer: Judith Nelson (soprano) Artist: William Christie (harpsichord) Artist: Stanley Ritchie (violin)
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 1951045,.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata in D, K7
Performer: Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)
- BBC recording..
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