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LE RETOUR DES DIEUX SUR LA TERRE 

LE CAPRICE D’ÉRATO, OU LES CARACTÈRES DE LA MUSIQUE

FRANÇOIS COLIN DE BLAMONT (1690-1760) 

Entertainments created at Fontainebleau in 1725 for the marriage of Louis XV, with a libretto by Alexandre Tanevot, and at Versailles in 1729 for the birth of the Dauphin, with a libretto by Louis Fuzelier.

Chantal Santon Jeffery · Hasnaa Bennani · Marine Lafdal-Franc ·
Jehanne Amzal · Clément Debieuvre · David Witczak
Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles ·
Fabien Armengaud, artistic direction
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra · Aapo Häkkinen, artistic direction
Alexis Kossenko, conductor

Le Retour des Dieux sur la Terre and Le Caprice d'Érato are part of the tradition inherited from Louis XIV of occasional pieces that served to illustrate major events at Court: composed four years apart, the first to celebrate the wedding of Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska in 1725 and the second for the birth of their first son in 1729, these two divertissements are veritable little concert operas in which splendid grand narratives, triumphal overtures, surprising dances, solemn choruses and grandiose finales follow one another. Alexis Kossenko invites us here to savour the delights of these musical evenings, which gradually spread to all the salons of the 18th century, and where everything seems to invite us to celebrate!

Recorded at Finlandia-talo (Helsinki) from November 20th to 22nd 2021

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