DVD's were a bit thin, but there was a substantial collection of classical CD's, more or less in alphabetic order by composer. Amongst which I found some Rameau (who was the next big star after Lully, that is to say, a bit more than half a century after), but no Lully. Moved onto to the collection of opera CD's, where there was quite a lot of Lully. Two of each, Rameau top row in the snap above, Lully bottom row.
Only allowed a week and I get charged £1 for singles and £1.50 for boxes, probably the same regime as that for DVD's.
Home to find that the Anacréon was performed by the same people that we had heard and enjoyed at the Wigmore Hall, noticed at reference 2.
While the Amadis was a rather fancy edition, with several CD's packaged in a sort of book which included various notes and a bilingual libretto. Rather handsomely done, with this book being No.239x in a numbered edition, with the last digit or so being lost under the library bar code label. From which we learn that Surrey Libraries still had a budget for this sort of thing in 2013, when it was published. Or perhaps pressed is the technical term. Done a bit of prologue so far - and so far it lives up to the expectations set by the dancing king.
And I was pleased to find that the Wikipedia page for Amadis (reference 3) lists this very recording.
PS: perhaps the French like this numbered copy business, with the Mauriac bought ten years ago and noticed at reference 4 being numbered too. Which I happened to know as, the two volumes having sat on the shelf for a decade, a couple of days ago I thought to get one down and read some more of it.
Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-dancing-king.html.
Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/02/courtly-songs.html.
Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadis_(Lully).
Reference 4: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=mauriac+karnac.
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