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Les Arts Florissants (Idyle en musique) H.487

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

'Les Arts Florissants' is the piece from which the
eponymous ensemble took its name. This work
belongs to the category of musical allegories,
mostly from antique mythology, as a tribute to a
royal person. In this case that person was the
French king Louis XIV, although Charpentier didn't
compose it for the royal court, but for the
ensemble of Marie de Lorraine, the Duchess of
Guise, in whose service he spent a considerable
part of his life.

'Les Arts Florissants' is an allegory on the power
of the arts: Music (La Musique) and Poetry (La
Poésie) praise Louis for bringing peace, whereas
Painting (La Peinture) - a role which Charpentier
himself sang at the first performance - considers
himself hardly good enough to paint the greatness
of the king. Conflict (La Discorde) and his furies
try to bring disasters to the world, but Peace
(La Paix) chases them off. The piece ends with a
chorus of Arts and Soldiers wishing peace to last
forever.

The contrasts in this 'opera' are impressively
realised by Charpentier: they not only regard
those between the arts and La Discorde but also
within the choruses of Soldiers which sing the
praise of La Musique but which also refer to the
terror of war: 'How sweet is it to hear your
heavenly sound, after the terrible noises of
blazing war guns and his thundering echo'.

Originally released on LP HM1083 back in 1982.

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