Jean-Baptiste Lully, a master of 17th century French Baroque, answered to both master and muse in his 1675 opera "Thésée." The former was Louis XIV, whose court is celebrated in a long and floridly ...

When it comes to anecdotes about musicians, the one about 17th century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully certainly ranks among the most bizarre. Lully, who spent much of his career writing music for ...

Jean-Baptiste Lully was the toast of the town in France during the Baroque era. The French King loved Lully, and today's Beautiful Music is a live performance of an excerpt from the composer's comédie ...

All Things Blue is the LA-based project of India Coombs (aka Blue) and Jon Joseph. Their debut album Get Bit is dropping in December, and the rollout continues today with a stunning new single called ...

Hannah French is joined in the Early Music Show studio by musicologists Berta Joncus & Lola Salem to explore the life & music of Jean-Baptiste Lully - favourite of King Louis XIV. Show more Hannah ...

If you don’t know Debussy’s 1913 tennis-inspired ballet Jeux, then start here. Performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with choreography by Nijinsky in May 1913, it flopped, and had the bad luck to be ...

Lucie Skeaping and Emma Murphy explore Lully's profound influence on music in Bohemia and composers such as George Muffat and Johann Caspar Gerdinand Fischer. We'll hear suites by both composers as ...