Founder and artistic director of the pioneering Les Arts Florissants, American conductor William Christie is an icon of historically informed performance practice, a flamboyantly skilled harpsichordist, and one the critical figures in reviving 17th and 18th century French repertoire. This album gathers a host of young artists who are dear to him (gambist Myriam Rignol, harpsichordist Justin Taylor, lutenist Thomas Dunford, violinists Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Emmanuel Resche-Caserta, soprano Gwendoline Blondeel, and mezzo-soprano Juliette Mey) for an intimate concert at Paris’s Musée de la musique to celebrate Christie’s 80th birthday. Th program centers some of the composers he has passionately championed including François Couperin, Marin Marais, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.