Credits:

Sebastien D’Herin

Description:

Building on long-standing partnerships with the Versailles Baroque Music Center and conservatories in Paris, Lyon, and elsewhere, the Palace of Versailles event planning team, Chteau de Versailles Spectacles, has been strengthening its ties in recent years with the French early music scene, which is increasingly at the forefront of Europe. The albums released on their own label have, to date, consisted entirely of obscure workseach a significant piece that has enriched the history of French music, yet one that has rarely been recorded. This new release features none other than *The Village Soothsayer*, a major work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who made his mark on history as an Enlightenment philosopher… This new recording, performed on period instruments in accordance with 18th-century performance practices, is nothing short of a treasure. Premiered in Versailles in 1752long after Rameau h