Royal Divertissement Suites

• These tracks are selections from Lully’s music that would have been used for royal court festivities at Versailles between 1664-1670. The “suites” are actually a collection made for this recording, not selections which Lully himself grouped into suites.¹

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ENCO Cut # 46211: Royal Divertissement Suite No. 1

• This collection consists of:
  1. Danse de Neptune
  2. Les suivants de Neptune
  3. Prélude des Trompettes
  4. Les Hommes et Femmes armés

ENCO Cut # 46212 Royal Divertissement Suite No. 2

• This collection consists of:
  1. Rondeau de Mariage forcé (1664)
  2. Second air from Mariage forcé
  3. Bourrée from Mariage forcé
• Le mariage forcé LWV 20 was a comedie-ballet by Lully which premiered at the Louvre on Jan. 29, 1664.²

ENCO Cut # 46213: Royal Divertissement Suite No. 3

• This set consists of:
  1. Bourrée de Divertissement de Chambord (1669)
  2. Symphonie des Plaisirs
     • Les Plaisirs LWV 2 is a ballet by Lully which premiered at the Louvre on Feb. 4, 1655.³
  3. Les Esclaves
  4. Menuet pour les Trompettes

1. Phillipe Beaussant, trans. Jacqueline Minett, liner notes to Lully: L’Orchestre de Roi Soleil, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, Alia Vox 9807, CD, 1999.
2. Jérôme de La Gorce, “Lully, Jean-Baptiste (i),” Grove Music Online, accessed November 12, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278219.
3. Ibid.