TITLE: Le salon de musique de Marie-Antoinette
HARP: Sandrine Chatron
MUSICIANS: Stéphanie Paulet (Violin), Isabelle Poulenard (Soprano), Jean-Francois Lombard (Tenor), Amélie Michel (Tenor)
INFORMATIONS: In this third recording in the Cité de la Musique series, Sandrine Chatron plays the very rare and beautiful 18th-century harp by Sébastien Érard. The music selected illustrates the diversity of repertory linked with the figure of Queen Marie-Antoinette, a music-lover, performer, inspiration, or patron of the arts. She helped several composers in their careers, including Gluck, her teacher, and Grétry, both of whom are found on this recording with other composers from the time of Marie-Antoinette.

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TITLE: La petite musique de Marie-Antoinette
MUSIC: François-Joseph Gossec, André Modeste Gretry
DIRECTOR: Olivier Simonnet
SINGERS: Sophie Karthauser (soprano) and Pierre-Yves Pruvot (baryton)
INFORMATIONS: Documentary-concert shot in the small theater of Marie-Antoinette in Versailles. This movie shows a concert for Marie-Antoinette in her theatre: this last one is not open to the public, so it's a pleasure to hear music and also to discovery a historic place.

TITLE: Les Musiques De Marie-Antoinette
MUSIC: Autori vari
INFORMATIONS: This cd is a compilation about Marie-Antoinette's favourite music, include C'est mon ami (a music composed by the queen).

TITLE: A postcard from Paris 
SINGER: Mayuko Karasawa 
INFORMATIONS: This cd contains lots of musical pieces written by french composers and played by the famous japanese singer Mayuko Karasawa. The most interesting track is "C'est mon ami", a music composed by Marie-Antoinette and recorded for the first time on cd. For more informations about the cd, visit http://www.universal-music.co.jp/classics/artist/mayuko_karasawa/

TITLE: Parfums Musicaux de Versailles 
SINGER: Riyoko Ikeda 
INFORMATIONS: on 2nd November 2005, Riyoko Ikeda, famous for her Versailles No Bara, presented her new cd: it's called Parfums Musicaux de Versailles and Riyoko Ikeda is the singer of musics composed by Marie-Antoinette.

Few people know that Marie Antoinette composed a music herself! Aki, played the music you're listening in background in four versions: it's the song who Marie Antoinette herself composed and it's called "C'est mon ami".
If you want to see the scores with the notes and the lyrics, click here: page1, page2


COMPOSER: Joseph Haydn
LIBRETTO: Simphony n.85 called "La Reine"
This simphony was composed in 1785. Marie Antoinette gave her name to the Simphony n.85, because after a concert it became one of the queen's favourite musics.

COMPOSER: Jan Ladislav Dussek
LIBRETTO: "The Sufferings of the Queen of France", Op. 23/C98, La Mort de Marie-Antoinette, also known as klavierkonzerte, Tableau Marie-Antoinette.

COMPOSER: André Modeste Grétry
LIBRETTO: "Zémire et Azor" (by Marmontel)
The day after Marie Antoinette had seen Zémire et Azor she was introduced to Grétry and Marmontel (the creater of the libretto) and she happily gave him all her gratulations on the new opera's success and said that she had been dreaming all night of the enchanting effect of Zémire's father and sisters' trio behind the magic mirror! Grétry then became carried away with joy and embraced Marmontel and exclaimed "Oh, there's something to make splendid music about!"

MUSIC: Daniel Börtz
LIBRETTO: Claes Fellbom
WITH: Marianne Eklof, Mikael Axelsson, Olle Persson 
INFORMATIONS: For more informations about this opera visit the official site http://www.folkoperan.se