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Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux
Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux
Louis XIV loved music and was particularly fond of François Couperin's private concerts. Patrick Cohën-Akenine and the Folies françoises have succeeded in reviving this musical magic of the Grand Siècle era with unrivalled splendour.
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
What if Beaumarchais could change the past of the victims of the Revolution? Will Marie Antoinette be able to escape her fate? In this unique work, which had its triumphant premiere in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Corigliano's music navigates between Mozart and Rossini, and takes the audience back in the myst of the French Revolution and the dreadful fate of France's last Queen!
Solomon - Haendel - Mac Creesh
Solomon - Haendel - Mac Creesh
Duration: 2h30Free access
Handel's manifest masterpiece, the composer's genius combines in various ways, in three acts, three singular frescoes, all the glory, wisdom and strength of King Solomon - offering a rich and memorable concert to amazed ears.
Les Soupers du Roi - Lalande
One evening, like so many others at the Château, Louis XIV sits down for dinner. While dishes and delicacies of all kinds are being served, everyone is carried away by the most succulent music, concocted by the chef Lalande. You too can enjoy the ripest fruit of chamber music!
Nouvelles Suites de pièces de clavecin
Nouvelles Suites de pièces de clavecin
Free accessBlandine Rannou's delicate hands, embracing the slightest subtleties of her harpsichord, awaken memories of an inventive Rameau, exploring both the potential and the refinement of this instrument, leaving nothing to accident but everything to genius!
Renaud et Armide - Médée et Jason
Renaud et Armide - Médée et Jason
Duration: 1h37Free access
Undisputed master of ballet under the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI, Jean-Georges Noverre has left his mark on the world of dance, both through his technical innovations and his thrilling stories! Discover this precious heritage through two of his most famous ballets!
La nuit des trois rois - Jordi Savall
La nuit des trois rois - Jordi Savall
Duration: 2h28Free access
Follow Master Jordi Savall, his musicians and singers, and travel through the history of the Château and its Kings, vibrating to the rhythm of a plural music, never static, but very much alive!
Lully - Grands motets - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon
Lully - Grands motets - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon
Duration: 1h29Free access
With his Te Deum the King’s Music Superintendent signed a remarkable score and set the style of this “official genre” for a century. Leonardo García Alarcón gives a deeply shimmering vision of this major composition, which will be combined with the Dies Irae and the De Profundis, with the grandeur and accuracy which are his signature.
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Denis Podalydès
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Denis Podalydès
Duration: 2h45Free access
The Bourgeois Gentilhomme is the sparkling result of the alliance of the geniuses of Molière and Lully. Of all his masters, Monsieur Jourdain will only obtain a Mamamouchi ceremony! Molière is served here by the direction of Denis Podalydès, and Lully by Christophe Coin and his Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, for a work whose comic force has not aged a bit.
Le Carrousel royal - Les Chevaux du soleil
Le Carrousel royal - Les Chevaux du soleil
Duration: 1h07Free access
For the first time since 1686, Versailles recreates a Royal Carrousel: horses, baroque costumes, opera music made this show the most popular of all court entertainments, and the only one intended for a large audience. The splendor of the Grand Carrousel Royal shines again!
The Fountains Show of Versailles
The Fountains Show of Versailles
See for yourself! The fountains and groves of the Château de Versailles come to life thanks to the beautiful and tender poetry that water has been reciting for centuries in these gardens. Listen carefully! To the clattering of the water answers an exquisite florilegium of baroque music that beginners and experts will be able to appreciate without restraint!
Le Coucher du Roi
One evening in January 1713, the night is approaching... Louis XIV finally frees himself from the mundanities and retires in the company of his close friends and his faithful musicians. The first moment of intimacy for the Great King, it is dedicated to music: Thibaut Roussel has brought together the best performers of the French Baroque repertoire to give us, as if in a waking dream, the music...
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.
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!
Le Grand Jeu
The dexterity, the passion, and the fervour of Gaétan Jarry are combined here to make the notes of the Great Organ resonate in the heart of the Chapelle Royale; a memorable moment in the tumultuous history of this instrument and a vibrant tribute to the greatest Baroque works!
Rebel & Boismortier - Les Caractères d'Ulysse
Rebel & Boismortier - Les Caractères d'Ulysse
Two talented harpsichordists perform a transcription of Rebel's and Boismortier's most beautiful works. The joyfulness and youthful energy of this recording provide a furious desire to dance along with the playful sound variations of the two harpsichords.
Ton Koopman - Great Organ 1710
Ton Koopman - Great Organ 1710
The virtuoso and renowned organist Ton Koopman's interpretation of a selection of Baroque masterpieces highlights the many assets of the organ of the Chapelle Royale - majestic in every way!
Lully - Phaéton
A celebration of the marvellous and of illusion, a prerogative of the Baroque, this re-creation of Lully's opera, dedicated to the son of the Sun, by Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar, enchants us with its assumed grandiloquence and its original phrasing restored, en bon françois!
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.
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".
Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux
Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux
Louis XIV loved music and was particularly fond of François Couperin's private concerts. Patrick Cohën-Akenine and the Folies françoises have succeeded in reviving this musical magic of the Grand Siècle era with unrivalled splendour.
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
What if Beaumarchais could change the past of the victims of the Revolution? Will Marie Antoinette be able to escape her fate? In this unique work, which had its triumphant premiere in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Corigliano's music navigates between Mozart and Rossini, and takes the audience back in the myst of the French Revolution and the dreadful fate of France's last Queen!
Solomon - Haendel - Mac Creesh
Solomon - Haendel - Mac Creesh
Duration: 2h30Free access
Handel's manifest masterpiece, the composer's genius combines in various ways, in three acts, three singular frescoes, all the glory, wisdom and strength of King Solomon - offering a rich and memorable concert to amazed ears.
Les Soupers du Roi - Lalande
One evening, like so many others at the Château, Louis XIV sits down for dinner. While dishes and delicacies of all kinds are being served, everyone is carried away by the most succulent music, concocted by the chef Lalande. You too can enjoy the ripest fruit of chamber music!
Nouvelles Suites de pièces de clavecin
Nouvelles Suites de pièces de clavecin
Free accessBlandine Rannou's delicate hands, embracing the slightest subtleties of her harpsichord, awaken memories of an inventive Rameau, exploring both the potential and the refinement of this instrument, leaving nothing to accident but everything to genius!
Renaud et Armide - Médée et Jason
Renaud et Armide - Médée et Jason
Duration: 1h37Free access
Undisputed master of ballet under the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI, Jean-Georges Noverre has left his mark on the world of dance, both through his technical innovations and his thrilling stories! Discover this precious heritage through two of his most famous ballets!
La nuit des trois rois - Jordi Savall
La nuit des trois rois - Jordi Savall
Duration: 2h28Free access
Follow Master Jordi Savall, his musicians and singers, and travel through the history of the Château and its Kings, vibrating to the rhythm of a plural music, never static, but very much alive!
Lully - Grands motets - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon
Lully - Grands motets - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon
Duration: 1h29Free access
With his Te Deum the King’s Music Superintendent signed a remarkable score and set the style of this “official genre” for a century. Leonardo García Alarcón gives a deeply shimmering vision of this major composition, which will be combined with the Dies Irae and the De Profundis, with the grandeur and accuracy which are his signature.
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Denis Podalydès
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Denis Podalydès
Duration: 2h45Free access
The Bourgeois Gentilhomme is the sparkling result of the alliance of the geniuses of Molière and Lully. Of all his masters, Monsieur Jourdain will only obtain a Mamamouchi ceremony! Molière is served here by the direction of Denis Podalydès, and Lully by Christophe Coin and his Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, for a work whose comic force has not aged a bit.
Le Carrousel royal - Les Chevaux du soleil
Le Carrousel royal - Les Chevaux du soleil
Duration: 1h07Free access
For the first time since 1686, Versailles recreates a Royal Carrousel: horses, baroque costumes, opera music made this show the most popular of all court entertainments, and the only one intended for a large audience. The splendor of the Grand Carrousel Royal shines again!
The Fountains Show of Versailles
The Fountains Show of Versailles
See for yourself! The fountains and groves of the Château de Versailles come to life thanks to the beautiful and tender poetry that water has been reciting for centuries in these gardens. Listen carefully! To the clattering of the water answers an exquisite florilegium of baroque music that beginners and experts will be able to appreciate without restraint!
Le Coucher du Roi
One evening in January 1713, the night is approaching... Louis XIV finally frees himself from the mundanities and retires in the company of his close friends and his faithful musicians. The first moment of intimacy for the Great King, it is dedicated to music: Thibaut Roussel has brought together the best performers of the French Baroque repertoire to give us, as if in a waking dream, the music...
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.
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!
Le Grand Jeu
The dexterity, the passion, and the fervour of Gaétan Jarry are combined here to make the notes of the Great Organ resonate in the heart of the Chapelle Royale; a memorable moment in the tumultuous history of this instrument and a vibrant tribute to the greatest Baroque works!
Rebel & Boismortier - Les Caractères d'Ulysse
Rebel & Boismortier - Les Caractères d'Ulysse
Two talented harpsichordists perform a transcription of Rebel's and Boismortier's most beautiful works. The joyfulness and youthful energy of this recording provide a furious desire to dance along with the playful sound variations of the two harpsichords.
Ton Koopman - Great Organ 1710
Ton Koopman - Great Organ 1710
The virtuoso and renowned organist Ton Koopman's interpretation of a selection of Baroque masterpieces highlights the many assets of the organ of the Chapelle Royale - majestic in every way!
Lully - Phaéton
A celebration of the marvellous and of illusion, a prerogative of the Baroque, this re-creation of Lully's opera, dedicated to the son of the Sun, by Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar, enchants us with its assumed grandiloquence and its original phrasing restored, en bon françois!
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.
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".
