The Symphonies for the King’s Suppers by Michel-Richard De Lalande (1657-1726) were popularized by a famous record by Jean-François Paillard at Erato. But the work includes “twelve suites of symphonies” fully revealed by Hugo Reyne and the Sinfonie du Marais in 1990 (set of four Harmonia Mundi CDs). Hugo Reyne also introduced this music to Vincent Dumestre, who, here, in the first non-vocal disc of his Poème harmonique, shows an unequaled sumptuousness of colors, enshrined in phrasing of elegance and naturalness. confusing. This disc is therefore all the more important as it delivers a relevant selection in a single CD (Suites in G minor, D major and E minor, increased by the Large royal coin and the Prelude of the famous Trumpet concert) operated within a work ideally emblematic of French baroque music in the time of Louis XIV. An example of French style and taste, De Lalande also stimulated other composers, such as Telemann with his Tafelmusik three decades later.
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