Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Ouverture and chaconne from Le bourgeois gentilhomme

Jean Henry d’Anglebert:
Tombeau de M. de Chambonniîres

Jean-Fery Rebel:
Tombeau de M. de Lully

Robert de Visée:
Prélude and musette

Georg Muffat:
‘Blanditiae’ from Florilegium secundum in E minor
Armonico tributo - sonata II in G minor

Arcangelo Corelli:
Trio sonata, op. 2, no. 12

François Couperin:
Apothéose de Corelli - Grande sonade en trio

Bernardo Pasquini:
Toccata in A minor

Italian or French? Jean Baptiste Lully and Arcangelo Corelli were the champions of these two musical styles – and the main subjects of the many attempts to establish which style was better. Or could the two styles be united? This programme paints a musical picture of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe, through the music of Corelli, Lully, and their contemporaries. Chief among the reconcilers was the organist and composer Georg Muffat. German but of Scottish ancestry, it was he who introduced both styles to Germany. Also included are Rebel’s homage to Lully and Couperin’s to Corelli. In this vivid recording The Bach Players bring history to life.