Versailles

Description

With Versailles, pianist Alexandre Tharaud returns with emotion to Baroque music through its greatest French representatives: Rameau, Lully, Couperin, Royer, D'Anglebert, Duphly, Balbastre, De Visée. It is a true passion that Alexandre Tharaud has for these masterpieces of French Baroque, which he reveals, better than anyone, the astonishing colors and expressive power. It is the aesthetic universe of the French style of the Ancien Régime that this new album invites us to discover. Versailles, its splendor both demonstrative and mysterious, its classicism that does not exclude madness, its massive grandeur that neglects no detail, are the result of a deliberate and rational construction of a dynamic and dominant modernity, which aspires to shine everywhere in the world, particularly around the figure of Louis XIV. Alexandre Tharaud explores and illuminates these musical treasures and invites us on an exceptional journey to the heart of the Grand Siècle. An event not to be missed!