Jean-Baptiste Lully: Ballet de Xerxès (LWV 12) - Part I / Aradia Baroque Ensemble

GIOVANNI BATTISTA LULLI
[with Pier Francesco Cavalli*]
IL XERSE, Ballet (LWV 12)
Libretto: Niccolò Minato
Paris, 1660
I. Ouverture - 0:05
II. Bourrée pour les Basques - 2:09
III. Deuxième Air pour les mesmes - 3:14
IV. Air pour les Paysans - 4:05
V. Gigue pour Scaramouche - 5:00
VI. Deuxième Air pour les Postures de Scaramouche - 6:28
The famous Italian composer (1602-1676), was commissioned to write an opera, Ercole amante, to celebrate the marriage of Louis XIV to Marie-Thérèse. In the event, Cavalli arrived in Paris with the work unfinished, and so at the last minute, a simplified version of his opera Xersès was substituted. Lully was asked to supply ballet interludes, and because of the short notice, he used material previous productions with no connection to Xerxès. Compared to the under-rehearsed opera, the six intermèdes had a light comedic mood. There are Basques and Spanish peasants (in honour of Marie-Thérèse), clowns, Scaramouche, and ship-owner with with his slaves, who carry monkeys dressed as clowns accompanied by sailors playing on trompettes marines.
Kevin Mallon, Margot Jewell, Stuart Rogers, Catherine Freitag-Hewson (dessus de violon)
Philip Dirks, Christopher Reibling (haute-contre de violon)
Anthony Rapoport, Lawrence Beckwith (taille de violon)
Beverlee Rapp, May Ing Ruehle (quinte de violon)
Allen Whear (violoncello)
J. Tracy Mortimore (violone)
Washington MacClain, Julie Brye (baroque oboe)
Jenny Mallon (traversiere)
Avery MacLean (recorder)
Michael MacCraw (bassoon)
Norman Engel (natural trumpet)
Laura Thomas (timpani)
Stephanie Martin (harpsichord)
Terry MacKenna (theorbo & baroque guitar)
Debbie Waugh (percussion)
Lawrence Beckwith (trompette marine, kazoos, onion flutes, comb & paper)
Aradia Baroque Ensemble / Kevin Mallon (conductor)
www.aradia.ca/
1996
Naxos 8.554003 - DDD
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