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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.

1 hour

Last on

Thu 31 Mar 2011 22:00

Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Air polonois

    Performer: Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)

    • ѿý Recording.
  • Louis‐Claude Daquin

    Premiere Suite (excerpt)

    Artist: Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)

    • Temperament-Radio France.
    • TEM 316026/27,.
  • André Campra

    L'Europe galante (Prologue; Overture; La France)

    Performer: Rachel Yakar (soprano) Artist: La Petite Bande Director: Gustav Leonhardt (director)

    • DHM.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Platee Suite (excerpt)

    Performer: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Conductor: Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

    • Conifer Classics.
  • Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville

    Regna, terra, Cantate Deo

    Performer: Judith Nelson (soprano) Artist: William Christie (harpsichord) Artist: Stanley Ritchie (violin)

    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1951045,.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in D, K7

    Performer: Olivier Baumont (harpsichord)

    • ѿý recording..

Broadcasts

  • Thu 18 Jun 2009 12:00
  • Thu 18 Jun 2009 22:00
  • Thu 31 Mar 2011 12:00
  • Thu 31 Mar 2011 22:00

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