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 collaboration with the French early music scenewhich in recent years has increasingly taken a leading role in Europe. The albums released on their own label have, to date, consisted entirely of lesser-known worksall of which are major pieces that have enriched the history of French music, yet have 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 invaluable. Premiered in Versailles in 1752long