Christiane Tardieu & l'Ensemble La Stravaganza - Jean-Marie Leclair, Louis-Antoine Lefebvre : Musique Parisienne Au XVIIIe Siècle

Unidisc (Tircis) - LP

France, 1981

Baroque / Parisian Classical

A few kilometers from Versailles's prestigious court, its water shows and fireworks, Paris in the mid 18th Century was bursting with music. In the shadow of Jean-Philippe Rameau, lesser-known composers like Jean-Marie Leclair were offering Parisians gentry sophisticated divertimenti, such as these "Récréations de Musique".

Rarely recorded, Louis Antoine Lefebvre's Motet and two Ariettes immerse us in the stuffed atmosphere of Parisian salons, places of intrigues and skirmishes of wit, where eventually emerged the ideas of French Lumières.