Musicians from the Royal College of Music Historical Performance Faculty perform a sumptuous array of works from the French Baroque, using period instruments to play repertoire by Lully, Rameau and Couperin.
Known as the ’Sun King’, Louis XIV was famed for his lavish court at Versailles, and for his generosity as a patron of the arts. His great-grandson, Louis XV, was nicknamed ’Louis the Beloved’ and showed similar support for musicians – partly thanks to the musical tastes of his wife, Queen Marie, and his influential mistress, Madame de Pompadour.
