Composer of the Week - Music at Versailles - Episode 4

Donald Macleod is joined by Olivier Baumont to explore the music that was performed at the Palace of Versailles before the French Revolution. He visits the Peace Drawing Room, favoured by Louis XV's wife Marie Leszczynska for her musical soirees and the famous Hall of Mirrors, where Louis XIV met Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson d'Etoilles, who became Madame de Pompadour, at the Yew Tree Ball. Rameau: Air polonois Olivier Baumont (harpsichord) BBC Recording Daquin: Premiere Suite (excerpt) Olivier Baumont (harpsichord) Temperament-Radio France TEM 316026/27, CD1, Trs 2, 3, 6 Campra: L'Europe galante (Prologue; Overture; La France) Rachel Yakar (soprano) La Petite Bande Gustav Leonhardt (director) DHM CD2, Trs 4, 6 Rameau: Platee Suite (excerpt) Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan (conductor) Conifer Classics 605 51313 2, Trs 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 13, 3 Mondonville: Regna, terra, Cantate Deo Judith Nelson (soprano) William Christie (harpsichord) Stanley Ritchie (violin) Harmonia Mundi 1951045, Tr 1 Mozart: Sonata in D, K7 Olivier Baumont (harpsichord) BBC recording.