At a time when France tend­ed to look down on Italian taste as rather too flam­boy­ant, François Couperin wrote L’Apothéose de Lully, in which the great French baroque com­pos­er Lully rec­on­ciles with the Italian Corelli in the after­life. Ludus Instrumentalis cre­ate an ode to this reunion and com­bine Couperin’s apoth­e­o­sis with music by Leclair and Mascitti.