L'Astree
Music based on the novel by Honoré d'Urfé
Faenza Ensemble, Marco Horvat
L'Astree
Music based on the novel by Honoré d'Urfé
Faenza Ensemble, Marco Horvat
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The publication of L'Astrée, Honoré d'Urfé's, lengthy novel, in 1607 had a major social impact on French Baroque society: it fuelled the imagination with allegorical fancies filled with shepherds and shepherdesses and their thwarted and impossible love stories. It remains an essential landmark in French cultural, artistic and social history, famously reaching even Marie-Antoinette, who played at being a shepherdess at her Trianon estate. Recorded at Honoré d'Urfé's castle in Forez.
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- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
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- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat
- Faenza, Marco Horvat