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The Jardin du Luxembourg is a 24-hectare park adjoining the palace built there by Marie de Médicis after the death of her husband Henri IV. The general lay-out is based on the original seventeenth-century plan, although changes were made in the nineteenth century. The gardens contain statues and areas for children’s play and more adult activities, including the traditional game of boules.

Music: Bizet: Menuet from L’Arlésienne (arr. flute and harp)

Bizet returned to Paris from Rome in 1869, after his triumph in the Prix de Rome, the start of what seemed a brilliant career. At home, however, he enjoyed only intermittent success, winning his greatest triumph, a posthumous one, in the year of his death, 1875, with his opera Carmen. In 1872 he had collaborated with Alphonse Daudet in a melodrama, L’Arlésienne (The Girl from Arles), a character who never appears on stage, as the tragic love affair at the heart of the drama unwinds. The new work was a melodrama, a play in which music played a major part. In the theatre this failed, but the music has won lasting popularity in two suites drawn from the original score, including the Menuet, here arranged for flute and harp. [Recommended recording Naxos 8.550741]

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