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Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): Trios pour le coucher du Roi
Symphonie-Sarabande-Menuet-La jeune Iris-Chaconne
0:00 Opening
0:18 Symphonie
1:11 Sarabande
2:13 Menuet
3:15 La jeune Iris
4:51 Chaconne
8:12 Credits
YuEun Gemma Kim, violin • Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin • William Skeen, violoncello • Corey Jamason, harpsichord
Eddie Frank, video • Chris Landen, audio
American Bach Soloists • Jeffrey Thomas, Artistic Director
Filmed in March 2021 in the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (Davis, California).
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As Italians proliferated their instrumental sonata genre, French composers held the Dance Suite as their preferred multi-movement form. Marin Marais was the first to publish dance suites in trio form. These movements from the Trios pour le coucher du Roi (“Trios for the King’s Bedtime”) by Jean-Baptiste Lully, known primarily as a composer of Opera-Ballets, are found only in manuscript form. The collection, containing nearly 50 symphonie and dance movements, once thought to be solely by Lully, has now been re-examined and is found to contain trios by Marais as well. Chamber music suites became a very popular foil to the Italianate sonata, and both were produced throughout all of Europe throughout the entire Baroque.
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