Les Plaisirs du Louvre, Airs pour la Chambre de Louis XIII Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé

• Antoine Boësset (1587 - 1643):
• 1 Ballet des Nymphes bocagères de la forêt sacrée: "Reine que je sers et que je connais" (Concert de Diane et ses Nymphes) 02:12
• 2 Ballet des Nymphes bocagères de la forêt sacrée: "Bien loin profanes de ces lieux" (Concert des Nymphes des Bois) 01:30
• 3 Je perds le repos et les sens 02:37
• Pierre Guédron (1565 - 1620):
• 4 La Dépouille d'Égypte: "Cesse mortel d'importuner" (Juste mespris de saincte Agnez) 05:23
• Antoine Boësset:
• 5 Ballet des Voleurs: "Astres pleins de malheurs" (Récit de la Nuit) 04:16
• Etienne Moulinié (1599 - 1676):
• 6 Ballet du Mariage de Pierre de Provence et de la belle Maguelonne: "Rompez les charmes du sommeil" (Air de la Ridicule) 04:01
• Anonymous:
• 7 Ballet des Triomphes: Les Suisses 00:55
• 8 Ballet des Triomphes: Les Suissesses 00:41
• Antoine Boësset:
• 9 Monarque triomphant (Au Roy) 02:59
• Louis XIII (1601 - 1643):
• 10 Ballet de la Merlaison: Les Gascons 01:02
• Anonymous:
• 11 Ballet de la Merlaison: M. de Liancourt 00:44
• 12 Ballet de l'Improviste: Vallets de la Faiste 01:00
• Antoine Boësset:
• 13 Ballet de la Félicité, sur le sujet de l'heureuse naissance de Monseigneur le Dauphin: "Je suis l'adorable Équité" (Récit de la Félicité, la Justice, et les Amours) 02:56
• Etienne Moulinié:
• 14 Ballet du Monde renversé: "Il sort de nos corps emplumés" (Concert de différents oyseaux) 05:52
• Antoine Boësset:
• 15 Aime-moi, Cloris (Dialogue) 03:32
• Etienne Moulinié:
• 16 Ô doux Sommeil que tes songes aimables 03:02
• Antoine Boësset:
• 17 Fut-il jamais une rigueur pareille 02:41
• 18 Que prétendez-vous mes désirs 02:51
• Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601 - 1672):
• 19 L'Entretien des Dieux 05:12
• Pierre Guédron:
• 20 La Dépouille d'Égypte: "Quels tourments rigoureux" (Le Purgatoire) 03:52
• Antoine Boësset:
• 21 Ne vante point, flambeau des cieux 02:23
• 22 Ce roi vainqueur de nos malheurs (Pour le Roy) 02:09
• Louis Couperin (1626 - 1661):
• 23 La Piémontoise 01:28
• Antoine Boësset:
• 24 Segua chi vuol iniquo Amore 02:24
• 25 Conseille-moi mon cœur (Qui vit jamais amant) 04:00
• 26 Me veux-tu voir mourir 02:59
• François de Chancy (1600 - 1656):
• 27 Rares fleurs vivante peinture 05:12
• Antoine Boësset:
• 28 Ô mort l'objet de mes plaisirs 03:14
• Total Runtime 01:21:07

Info for Les Plaisirs du Louvre, Airs pour la Chambre de Louis XIII

Before Versailles, the epicentre of power in the Kingdom of France was the Louvre, a genuine theatre of ceremonies where music was duty- bound to impress with its magnificence.

In the reign of Louis XIII, the air de cour and ballet mobilised the elite of composers such as Moulinié, Guédron and Chancy.

The most famous of them, Boesset, guided the polyphonic air inherited from the Renaissance towards a more intimate conception: before the sumptuous splendours to come in the shadow of the Sun King, it is a rich array of delicately chiselled miniatures that the combined talents of the Ensemble Correspondances give us the opportunity to hear today.

Ensemble Correspondances
Sebastien Dauce, direction

The ensemble Correspondances
presents mainly 17th century French sacred music; an era which saw produced a considerable number of masterpieces, some still unpublished, just waiting to be revived by young and passionate musicians.


Sébastien Daucé, the Artistic Director, and his musicians met while studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. A dedicated collaboration blossomed to unearth rare and neglected musical treasures, revealing, through their interpretation, a whole range of emotions within these works.


Since its formation in 2009, the ensemble has performed in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italia, Japan and South-America. Its first recording for Zig-Zag Territoires, O Maria !, featuring motets by Marc-Antoine Charpentier was released in 2010 to great critical acclaim (Choc de Classica Diapason découverte, Coup de cœur de l'Académie Charles Cros, ***** Fonoforum and Supersonic in Pizzicato). This was followed by L'Archange et le Lys, a collection of motets by Antoine Boësset, the first recorded anthology of the composer.

The ensemble has recently appeared at the Saintes festival, OudeMuziek festival in Utrecht, Easter Festival in Fontevraud, Printemps des Arts de Nantes, Nuremberg, Paris, Rome and Fribourg. They have recorded extensively for the radio: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Radio-France and Radio Suisse Romande. Highlights of the forthcoming season include festival d’Ambronay, Abbaye de Royaumont, festival de Lanvellec, and a Asian tour in April 2013.

Sébastien Daucé
After a specialized program at the National Conservatory of Music of Lyon, Sébastien Daucé played under the direction of Kenneth Weiss (Didon and Aeneas, Madrigal of Monteverdi), of Gabriel Garrido (Ercole Amante of Cavailli, in the Academy of Baroque Opera at Ambronay, and recently for the recording of another Cavalli opera, Gli Amori d’Apollo e Datne,) of Raphaël Pichon (Pygmalion), of Toni Ramon (Radio France), of Françoise Lasserre (Akademia) and Geoffroy Jourdain (The Crys of Paris).

He was the assistant of Kenneth Weiss’s for the 2006 and 2007 academies at the Festival d’Art Lyrique in Aix en Provence (France).

In 2006, he founded the Ensemble Correspondances. The first concerts of this ensemble, made up of young musicians from the National Conservatory of music of Lyon and of Paris, took place in France and in Switzerland. During this time, they were recorded and aired on the radio. The Ensemble Correspondances toured Japon in December 2009 ; and have played in some prestigious festivals (Pontoise, Saintes, Utrecht). Their two firsts Cds have been recorded on the ZigZag Territories label : they both received notable press such as Choc de Classica and a Diapason découverte. Sébastien Daucé has worked, as well in the past few years, on Marc-Antoine Charpentier; in which he has published in the Abbesses Editions, three operas, in collaboration with William Christie. From 2012, he is a teacher at the Pole Supérieur Paris-Boulogne.

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