Louis Quatorze - Louis XIV

Louis XIV is the theme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2010 which is starting today...

"Ten days of French Baroque music in Utrecht's concert halls and churches. Dozens of concerts, lectures, workshops and a symposium* place a spotlight on the Grand Siècle"...

* a three-day symposium titled French Baroque Gesture 1675-1800, with Graham Sadler speaking on a subject dear to my heart : "Reconstructing the union of music, movement and gesture in the ballets figurés of two Rameau-Cahusac operas"...

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Update :

Reviews of the concerts on Johan Van Veen's excellent Musica Dei Donum.