Lully - Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs

Great ! It s so different !!!
It ha an a´tmospheric an very sensible touch and is so inspired ...
I also like the faster and louder versions but this is very special and moves me deep inside. Go on so - you found the soul in this old music. Would like to hear more in this style !

What a lame and gutless performance.

Watch the Tous le Matins du Monde version. I like it better.

Sounds alot more like a renaissance pavan with the percussion and the pavannic rhythm

it's supposed to have a "Turkish" sound to it hence the kettledrum sound in the percussion. But I have to agree that it is primitive sounding compaired to pieces by say Jean-Philippe Rameau. But since it's Baroque I love it.

rest in peace??

What is that guitar-like instrument with the enormous neck?

That is a theorbo, I believe, and a very large one indeed. It's an instrument of the lute family with long, deeply pitched bass strings (hence the long neck). It was used in conjunction with or instead of keyboard instruments (i.e. harpsichord) to fill in the harmonies in baroque music.

It's a theorbo; one of the descendants of the lute.