François Couperin - L'Apothéose de Lully (1725)

Composer: François Couperin "le Grand" (November 10, 1668 – September 11, 1733)
Performers: Les Ombres directed by Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre

00:00 Lully in the Elysian Fields performing with the lyrical Shadows
02:33 Air for the same
03:43 Mercury flies to the Elysian Fields to warn of Apollo's impending descent
04:22 Descent of Apollo, who comes to offer his violin to Lully and a place on Parnassus
07:35 Subterranean rumblings caused by Lully's contemporaries
08:19 Lamentations of the same for flutes or very muted violins
11:47 Elevation of Lully to Parnassus
12:49 Welcome, both kind and guarded, given to Lully by Corelli and the Italian Muses
15:29 Lully's thanks to Apollo
18:24 Apollo persuades Lully and Corelli that the reunion of French and Italian tastes shall make perfection in Music: Essay in the form of an overture.
21:35 Lully plays the subject and Corelli accompanies it (First Air)
22:36 Corelli plays the subject and Lully accompanies it (Second Air)
24:09 The Peace of Parnassus, over the protest of the French Muses, is made on the condition that when their language is spoken, one will henceforth say Sonade and Cantade, as one says Ballade and Sérénade, etc. (Gravement)
26:41 (Saillie)
28:25 (Rondement)
30:00 (Vivement)

Couperin playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyw-Me-kQIeBA8MfwCbuvvA3-AQqGbU3I
Full title: Concert instrumental sous le titre d'Apothéose composé à la mémoire immortelle de l'incomparable Monsieur de Lully (Instrumental concert with the title of Apotheosis composed to the immortal memory of the incomparable Monsieur de Lully)

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