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Mozart - The Magic Flute
In 1791, Mozart created his Spingspiel Die Zauberflöte. The libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder was staged in German, making the work accessible to a wide audience. Today, it is a Flute entirely in French that we offer you in this version directed by Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek and conducted by Hervé Niquet with Le Concert Spirituel.
Grétry - Richard Cœur de Lion
A King imprisoned, his knights singing loyalty to him, a famous tune "O Richard, O my King" sung in the Royal Opera of Versailles by the Bodyguards of Louis XVI in 1789... Discover or rediscover this ode to the last King of France, created for the 250th anniversary of the Royal Opera of Versailles!
Lully & Molière - George Dandin and la Grotte de Versailles
Lully & Molière - George Dandin and la Grotte de Versailles
Relive the beginnings of theater and opera at Versailles through these two entertaining works, reflections of the King's youth and of the captivating lightheartedness prevailing at the Court, delightfully performed by the Marguerite Louise Ensemble.
Rameau - Les Boréades
A monument of French opera, long forgotten, performed with an energy that honors it. Everything is there: pain of an impossible love, lamenting distress in the face of injustice, terror of a devastating storm, relief at the end. May you be seized by this masterpiece, directed by Václav Luks!
Noëls baroques à Versailles
There is no doubt that in the Ancien Régime, Christmas was a religious and musical holiday! For this recording, popular music and virtuoso talents come together, masterful organ and angelic voices respond to each other, divine promise and earthly jubilation mingle, to offer us a royal Christmas!
Martini - Requiem pour Louis XVI
Martini - Requiem pour Louis XVI
Hervé Niquet and the Concert Spirituel recreate with musical and historical accuracy the fervor and brilliance of this Requiem given at the time of the Restauration. To the ears, the reminiscences of a world then in retreat are given, like a last Adieu of a King and his Queen to their people.
Bach - Magnificat
Against the sullen spirits and faces of winter, Bach awakens, with his Magnificat, the warm and comforting promise of salvation made to mankind. And then, all sing in unison: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my Spirit rejoices in God my Saviour!"
Blanchard & Colin de Blamont - La Guerre des Te Deum
Blanchard & Colin de Blamont - La Guerre des Te Deum
Two Te Deums, two composers, an ancient custom flouted, and war broke out. The Te Deum of the Sous-Maître Blanchard was played in front of the Queen, instead of the Superintendent Colin de Blamont's one, what an outrage! Discover the scores !
Cavalli - Missa 1660
Benjamin Chénier and the Galilei Consort restore the score of this 1660 mass, which sealed the marriage of the future Sun King to Maria Theresa of Austria. A royal wedding with pomp and circumstance!
Rousseau - Le Devin du village
Rousseau - Le Devin du village
September 19, 1780: Marie-Antoinette was on stage, dressed up, in frot of a crowd of close friends. She was acting as the shepherdess Colette, the hero of this opera, which might have been the most famous of its era.
Campra - L'Europe galante
Campra takes us on a journey through the romantic nations of Europe. France beats with the gallant heart of the shepherds and shepherdesses, Italy displays the Venetian masked ball, Turkey opens its seraglio of sultanas. A lively musical banter under the reign of Louis XIV!
Charpentier - Les Arts Florissans
Charpentier - Les Arts Florissans
As an allegorical masterpiece, Les Arts Florissans features Music, Poetry, Painting, and Architecture; their praise of the monarch, Louis XIV, is troubled by dissension, but Peace triumphs, as do Gaétan Jarry and Marguerite Louise in this recording, which was awarded an Opera Diamond.
Handel - The Coronation of King George II
Handel - The Coronation of King George II
Duration: 1h38Free access
The coronation of a King of England in the Chapel of the King of France, what a feat! But in the end, from Westminster Abbey to the Royal Chapel in Versailles, one essential thing remains: the same grandiose inspiration to celebrate the royal figure through music. Handel is here the majestic craftsman of this coronation in great pomp and ceremony and makes the trumpets and drums sound in unison...
Rousseau - Le Devin du Village
Rousseau - Le Devin du Village
Duration: 1h21Free access
September 19th, 1780: Marie-Antoinette gave in to her shepherdess reverie at the Petit Trianon's Petit Théâtre de la Reine, in the role of Colette in this Devin du Village, an opera in 3 acts by the famous Rousseau. Relive this royal banter filmed in the original historical settings!
La Damnation de Faust
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Desire for eternal youth, passion for love, insatiable thirst for knowledge and finally a dizzying descent into the infernal abyss: such is the dreadful fate of the famous Faust. This concert version, conducted by François-Xavier Roth, allows us to hear this work with the strength and audacity of the first Berlioz: a dark and resplendent masterpiece... to be damned for!
Symphonie Fantastique
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Victor Hugo and Hernani, Delacroix and Liberty Leading the People, Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique: these are the three parts of the birth of French Romanticism. A veritable musical autobiography of the brilliant composer, this Fantastique, which includes Reveries, Passions, a Ball, a Scene in the Fields, the Supplice March and a Dream, conducted by the great Sir John Eliott Gardiner, res...
Te Deum and Missa Salisburgensis
Te Deum and Missa Salisburgensis
Duration: 1h29Free access
With its fifty-three voices, six instrumental ensembles, sixteen soloists and ten trumpets and two timpani, Biber's Missa Salisburgensis is still a challenge for our artists today. Here, it is performed in a setting that matches its monumentality: the Basilica of San Giovanni in Rome, "the mother of all churches in the world".
Messiah
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Just as King George II could not contain his enthusiasm when he heard the mythical Hallejuah! and rose to his feet in applause, our ears cannot remain unmoved when faced with this monument to Handel's sacred music, which Hervé Niquet, at the height of his art, has come to meet. For a dazzling edification of the soul à l'anglaise!
The Coronation of Louis XIV
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The King enters the cathedral! Relive the coronation of Louis XIV in the Royal Chapel of Versailles thanks to this skilful reconstruction in which Sébastien Daucé and his Ensemble Correspondance and angelic Pages of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles combine their talent to proclaim the advent of the Great King.
Vespro della Beata Vergine
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The first masterpiece of sacred music, Monteverdi's mythical "Vespers" are here brought to incandescence by Raphael Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble, using all the possibilities of the Chapelle Royale to magnify the music in echoes from the Royal Tribune to that of the Grand Orgue. A moment of musical grace.
Mozart - The Magic Flute
In 1791, Mozart created his Spingspiel Die Zauberflöte. The libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder was staged in German, making the work accessible to a wide audience. Today, it is a Flute entirely in French that we offer you in this version directed by Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek and conducted by Hervé Niquet with Le Concert Spirituel.
Grétry - Richard Cœur de Lion
A King imprisoned, his knights singing loyalty to him, a famous tune "O Richard, O my King" sung in the Royal Opera of Versailles by the Bodyguards of Louis XVI in 1789... Discover or rediscover this ode to the last King of France, created for the 250th anniversary of the Royal Opera of Versailles!
Lully & Molière - George Dandin and la Grotte de Versailles
Lully & Molière - George Dandin and la Grotte de Versailles
Relive the beginnings of theater and opera at Versailles through these two entertaining works, reflections of the King's youth and of the captivating lightheartedness prevailing at the Court, delightfully performed by the Marguerite Louise Ensemble.
Rameau - Les Boréades
A monument of French opera, long forgotten, performed with an energy that honors it. Everything is there: pain of an impossible love, lamenting distress in the face of injustice, terror of a devastating storm, relief at the end. May you be seized by this masterpiece, directed by Václav Luks!
Noëls baroques à Versailles
There is no doubt that in the Ancien Régime, Christmas was a religious and musical holiday! For this recording, popular music and virtuoso talents come together, masterful organ and angelic voices respond to each other, divine promise and earthly jubilation mingle, to offer us a royal Christmas!
Martini - Requiem pour Louis XVI
Martini - Requiem pour Louis XVI
Hervé Niquet and the Concert Spirituel recreate with musical and historical accuracy the fervor and brilliance of this Requiem given at the time of the Restauration. To the ears, the reminiscences of a world then in retreat are given, like a last Adieu of a King and his Queen to their people.
Bach - Magnificat
Against the sullen spirits and faces of winter, Bach awakens, with his Magnificat, the warm and comforting promise of salvation made to mankind. And then, all sing in unison: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my Spirit rejoices in God my Saviour!"
Blanchard & Colin de Blamont - La Guerre des Te Deum
Blanchard & Colin de Blamont - La Guerre des Te Deum
Two Te Deums, two composers, an ancient custom flouted, and war broke out. The Te Deum of the Sous-Maître Blanchard was played in front of the Queen, instead of the Superintendent Colin de Blamont's one, what an outrage! Discover the scores !
Cavalli - Missa 1660
Benjamin Chénier and the Galilei Consort restore the score of this 1660 mass, which sealed the marriage of the future Sun King to Maria Theresa of Austria. A royal wedding with pomp and circumstance!
Rousseau - Le Devin du village
Rousseau - Le Devin du village
September 19, 1780: Marie-Antoinette was on stage, dressed up, in frot of a crowd of close friends. She was acting as the shepherdess Colette, the hero of this opera, which might have been the most famous of its era.
Campra - L'Europe galante
Campra takes us on a journey through the romantic nations of Europe. France beats with the gallant heart of the shepherds and shepherdesses, Italy displays the Venetian masked ball, Turkey opens its seraglio of sultanas. A lively musical banter under the reign of Louis XIV!
Charpentier - Les Arts Florissans
Charpentier - Les Arts Florissans
As an allegorical masterpiece, Les Arts Florissans features Music, Poetry, Painting, and Architecture; their praise of the monarch, Louis XIV, is troubled by dissension, but Peace triumphs, as do Gaétan Jarry and Marguerite Louise in this recording, which was awarded an Opera Diamond.
Handel - The Coronation of King George II
Handel - The Coronation of King George II
Duration: 1h38Free access
The coronation of a King of England in the Chapel of the King of France, what a feat! But in the end, from Westminster Abbey to the Royal Chapel in Versailles, one essential thing remains: the same grandiose inspiration to celebrate the royal figure through music. Handel is here the majestic craftsman of this coronation in great pomp and ceremony and makes the trumpets and drums sound in unison...
Rousseau - Le Devin du Village
Rousseau - Le Devin du Village
Duration: 1h21Free access
September 19th, 1780: Marie-Antoinette gave in to her shepherdess reverie at the Petit Trianon's Petit Théâtre de la Reine, in the role of Colette in this Devin du Village, an opera in 3 acts by the famous Rousseau. Relive this royal banter filmed in the original historical settings!
La Damnation de Faust
Free access
Desire for eternal youth, passion for love, insatiable thirst for knowledge and finally a dizzying descent into the infernal abyss: such is the dreadful fate of the famous Faust. This concert version, conducted by François-Xavier Roth, allows us to hear this work with the strength and audacity of the first Berlioz: a dark and resplendent masterpiece... to be damned for!
Symphonie Fantastique
Free access
Victor Hugo and Hernani, Delacroix and Liberty Leading the People, Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique: these are the three parts of the birth of French Romanticism. A veritable musical autobiography of the brilliant composer, this Fantastique, which includes Reveries, Passions, a Ball, a Scene in the Fields, the Supplice March and a Dream, conducted by the great Sir John Eliott Gardiner, res...
Te Deum and Missa Salisburgensis
Te Deum and Missa Salisburgensis
Duration: 1h29Free access
With its fifty-three voices, six instrumental ensembles, sixteen soloists and ten trumpets and two timpani, Biber's Missa Salisburgensis is still a challenge for our artists today. Here, it is performed in a setting that matches its monumentality: the Basilica of San Giovanni in Rome, "the mother of all churches in the world".
Messiah
Free access
Just as King George II could not contain his enthusiasm when he heard the mythical Hallejuah! and rose to his feet in applause, our ears cannot remain unmoved when faced with this monument to Handel's sacred music, which Hervé Niquet, at the height of his art, has come to meet. For a dazzling edification of the soul à l'anglaise!
The Coronation of Louis XIV
Free access
The King enters the cathedral! Relive the coronation of Louis XIV in the Royal Chapel of Versailles thanks to this skilful reconstruction in which Sébastien Daucé and his Ensemble Correspondance and angelic Pages of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles combine their talent to proclaim the advent of the Great King.
Vespro della Beata Vergine
Free access
The first masterpiece of sacred music, Monteverdi's mythical "Vespers" are here brought to incandescence by Raphael Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble, using all the possibilities of the Chapelle Royale to magnify the music in echoes from the Royal Tribune to that of the Grand Orgue. A moment of musical grace.
