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LE COUCHER DU ROI

Danaé Monnié, Marc Mauillon, Josèphe Cottet, Yoko Kawakubo, Thomas Leconte, Valérie Balssa, Myriam Rignol, Mathilde Vialle, Julie Dessaint, Romain Falik
Sébastien Daucé
Thibaut Roussel, theorbo and direction

Collection THE KINGS' CHAMBER
Vol. 1

Night is falling. In this twilight of the reign of Louis XIV and at the end of his Grand Coucher, the king is at last free from protocol. He then orders the musicians of the King’s Chamber, to come to him; they are the most excellent in the kingdom. These "Petits Concerts which were held in the evening before His Majesty" enabled the king to hear his preferred repertoire from all that he had loved and even danced to. Here is the “Sleep scene” from Lully’s Atys, the Sombres Déserts by Lambert, The Mutine by Visée, The Grande Pièce Royale by Lalande, A Gigue by Marais, La Plainte by La Barre... Thibaut Roussel has gathered around him the finest interpreters of the French baroque repertoire, to give us, as if in a waking dream, the intimate music of this Coucher du Roi.

Coproduced by Opéra Royal / Château de Versailles Spectacles - Camera Lucida - Arte.

Recorded from July 15th to 18th 2019 and filmed on June 22nd 2020 at the Château de Versailles.

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