101 Liaisons | Horologe (period instrument ensemble)

Music reflecting the glittering world of the French Court, and high-society Paris, in the first decades of the Eighteenth Century. The stories of these cantatas chimed with the semi-mythical world of Versailles, where the real world was lost in an allegorical picture of itself The characters - Dido, Silene, and the anonymous nymph of 'l'impatience' are familiar from the theatre, her brought to life in miniature, suitable perhaps for the most exquisite salons.