Versailles will reveal all its secrets to you

A new tool is available to all those who would like to discover French baroque music: the new Expodcast platform. A partnership between a virtual exhibition and a podcast series, this site was created by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), whose educational projects “Générations Lully” and “Générations La Fontaine” we support or have supported. The first episode of this Expodcast applied its innovative guided tour formula to an iconic place in the musical life of Louis XIV’s era: the Royal Chapel.  

In this first episode entitled “Music and musicians at the Royal Chapel”, the Internet user is guided by many experts, including Sébastien Daucé, director and founder of our partner the Correspondances Ensemble. This musician, a specialist in the interpretation of French baroque music, introduces us to an essential character in music at the time of King Louis XIV: Michel-Richard de Lalande, music superintendent of the King’s Chamber in 1689. As Sébastien Daucé analyzes in this video, “The modernity of Lalande’s motets, in my opinion, is due to the form, the theatre and the orchestra. Very few composers reach this level of perfection.”