Léa Masson - La Guitare de Louis XIV (2025) [Hi-Res]

Artist: Léa Masson
Title: La Guitare de Louis XIV
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:10:12
Total Size: 318 MB / 2.31 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: La Guitare de Louis XIV
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:10:12
Total Size: 318 MB / 2.31 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Sanz: Clarines y trompetas (0:58)
2. Briceño: Cancion a la Reyna de Francia (3:49)
3. Foscarini: Pavaniglia con parti variate (1:47)
4. Boësset: Récit de Mnémosyne; Quelles beautés Ô mortels (3:47)
5. Corbetta: Chaconnes in C Major (3:21)
6. Moulinié: Quando borda el campo verde (1:38)
7. Corbetta: Folias (4:19)
8. Moulinié: Espagnol, je te supplie (4:44)
9. Hurel: Prélude et Chaconne pour Mlle de la Balme (3:22)
10. Moulinié: L’auzel ques sul bouyssou; Chanson Gasconne (2:23)
11. Bartolotti: Guitar Suite in D Minor: I. Prélude (3:15)
12. Bartolotti: Guitar Suite in D Minor: II. Allemande (1:27)
13. Bartolotti: Guitar Suite in D Minor: III. Sarabande (1:19)
14. Bartolotti: Guitar Suite in D Minor: IV. Gigue (0:50)
15. Moulinié: Seguir più non voglio (1:55)
16. Bartolotti: Prélude in G Major (3:37)
17. Rochechouart: Lady Ann Blount Songbook: Se voi luci amate. Sarabande (2:43)
18. Lully: Ballet des Muses, LWV 32: Air de Mnémosyne (2:32)
19. Lully: La Grotte de Versailles, LWV 39: Ouverture (Arr. for Theorbo by Robert de Visée) (1:56)
20. Lully: La Grotte de Versailles, LWV 39: Récit d’Iris (9:01)
21. Lully: Ballet des Muses, LWV 32: Les Espagnols. Airs espagnols (3:43)
22. Lully: Ballet des Muses, LWV 32: Canaries (0:47)
23. Visée: Livre de guittarre dédié au Roy: No. 38, Tombeau de Francisque Corbet (3:20)
24. Lully: Chaconne des Harlequins (Arr. for Theorbo by Robert de Visée) (2:00)
25. Lully: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, LWV 36, Act V: Bel Tempo Che vola (1:48)
In addition to his reputation as a dancer, the Sun King was also a musician. Under the enlightened influence of his mother, Anne of Austria, the young Louis XIV learned to play the lute and then the guitar. Once relegated to commoners, this instrument became a symbol of royal refinement. Beyond simple entertainment, this musical craze served a political purpose: to seduce the court and the people, and to weave harmony between French, Italian and Spanish cultures. Like a new King David, monarch-musician par excellence, Louis XIV crafted the image of an Apollonian sovereign, master of the arts as much as of power. Together with exceptional musicians, Lea Masson reveals this forgotten facet of the guitarist king!