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Enjoyable, rare and marvellous: Lully's 'Ballet royal de la Naissance de Vénus' from Les Talens Lyriques
[…] sets and costumes. Plots were intended as the glue which held these disparate elements together, but also were designed to showcase the glories of the court or the particular monarch's reign. There was a participatory element, many of the dancers were aristocrats at court of great technical ability, whilst there would also be larger-scale ensemble moments. It was during the 13-hour (!) Ballet Royal de la Nuit, with music by music by Jean de Cambefort, Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Michel Lambert and others, that premiered in 1653 in Paris that the 14-year-old King Louis XIV (whose dancing of the role of Apollo cemented his epithet as the Sun King) came to regard a young Italian musician and dancer, Jean-Baptiste Lully. Within a month, Lully had been made royal composer for instrumental music. Designs for the Ballet Royal de la Nuit (1653) Lully wrote music for everything, hastily […]
2017-12-30 20:30:00
Le Ballet Royal de la Nuit, à Caen
[…] the solar system, the bringer of light and growth. An audacious statement, so dazzling that the court was stunned into submission. And he was only 14 years old. Though Louis wasn't formally crowned until the following year, Le Ballet Royal de la Nuit marked the beginning of his reign of glory. Le Ballet Royal de la Nuit also marks the beginning of modern music, opera and ballet. It comprised music from several composers, (Jean de Cambefort, Antoine Boësset, Louis Constantin, Michel Lambert (Lully's father-in-law) Francesco Cavalli, Luigi Rossi), secular as well as religious. It evolves in four parts, comprising numerous scena and interludes, depicting the known and unknown world. Gods and Symbolic Dieties mix with mortals and (glorified) peasants, represented the multitudes whom Louis would rule over, in fact as well as in allegory. Musicians, singers, dancers, acrobats, jugglers : the plethora of styles and skills reflected the diversity of […]
2015-10-11 09:00:04
Ensemble Correspondances/Daucé (Harmonia Mundi; 2 CDs)If you were lucky enough to catch David Bintley’s brilliant BBC4 homage to Louis XIV’s Ballet Royal de la Nuit you will be familiar with some of this. Sébastien Daucé spent three years reconstructing the music from the huge piece, performed in 1653, with 15-year-old Louis dancing the sun king to wild acclaim. Little record was kept of those who contributed music for the ballet, but Jean de Cambefort was definitely among them and Daucé has intelligently reworked incomplete sketches made 40 years after the work’s performance, interpolating some passages from Francesco Cavalli and others, all sung and played with tremendous verve by the suave singers and players of the Ensemble Correspondances. Continue reading...
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