Angelo Michele Bartolotti: Prelude; Suite d-moll
+Antoine Boesset: Recit de Mnemosyne "Quelles beautes, o mortels"
+Luis de Briceno: Cancion a la Reyna de Francia
+Francesco Corbetta: Chaconne C-Dur; Folias
+Giovanni Paolo Foscarini: Pavaniglia con parti variate
+Charles Hurel: Prelude & Chaconne pour Mlle de la Balme
+Jean-Baptiste Lully: Air de Mnemosyne & Canaries aus Ballet des muses; Overture & Recit d'Iris aus La Grotte de Versailles; Air des Espagnols, Bel tempo che vola, Chaconne des Harlequines & Sarabande aus Les Bourgeois Gentilhomme
+Etienne Moulinie: Espagnol, je te supplie; L'auzel ques sul bouyssou; Quando borda el campo verde; Seguir piu non voglia
+Gabriel de Rochechouart: Se voi luci amate
+Gaspar Sanz: Clarines y Trompetas
+Robert de Visee: Tombeau de Francisque Corbet

Louis XIV not only had a reputation as an excellent dancer, he was also active as a musician. Under the educational influence of his mother, Anne of Austria, the young Louis learned to play the lute and later the guitar. This instrument, once reserved for commoners, became a symbol of royal refinement. This enthusiasm for music was not only for entertainment, but also had political purposes: both the court and the people were to be impressed and a harmonious relationship between French, Italian and Spanish culture was to be established. Like a new King David, monarch and musician par excellence, the Sun King created the image of an Apollonian ruler who mastered the arts as well as power. Together with a host of other great musicians, Léa Masson reveals this forgotten facet of the guitar king!