Jean-Claude Malgoire
Jean-Claude Malgoire has been one of the more important French conductors of the latter twentieth and early twenty first centuries. He has focused heavily on Baroque music, though his repertory also includes operas by Mozart and Salieri. As music director of the La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy and l'Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, he has given many highly acclaimed concerts and opera productions, and made numerous recordings with major labels.
Malgoire was born in Avignon, France, on November 25, 1940. He exhibited talent as a child and after studying music locally he enrolled at the Paris Conservatory, where he studied oboe and received first prizes there for his solo playing and in chamber music. He launched his career as an oboist playing for symphony orchestras such as the Orchestre de la RATP, the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, and with the Orchestre de Paris. He often played jazz in night clubs in his early career with Michel Portal, Bernard Lubat, and other notable instrumentalists.
In 1966, while continuing his career as an oboist, he founded La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, a period-instrument ensemble devoted largely to Baroque music. He eventually abandoned playing oboe in orchestras (his last post was with the Orchestre de Paris), explaining he was not ultimately suited to the role.
Malgoire founded a second ensemble, this one the aforementioned Atelier de Tourcoing, largely devoted to the performance of Baroque and other early operas. Tours abroad in the 1970s quickly established the high artistic values of Malgoire and his ensemble, notably in two Rameau productions, the 1974 Les Indes galantes at the English Bach Festival and the 1978 Hippolyte et Aricie at Covent Garden. Later triumphs included the 1986 Aix-en-Provence festival production of Campra's Tancrède.
Malgoire has often been credited with unearthing previously lost
manuscripts from the Baroque era. When he discovered two arias from Act I of Vivaldi's Catone in Utica, he helped create a new version of the work for the acclaimed November 2001 live performance in Tourcoing.
Malgoire has continued his activities in the new century with numerous presentations of rare and familiar operas: in April 2002, he conducted l'Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing in performances of Salieri's Falstaff at the Municipal Theater in Tourcoing and also led a production there by the same forces of Handel's Rinaldo in October 2005.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Händel: Rinaldo - The Sony Opera House
Opera - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1977
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Neukomm : Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI
La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 13 Jan 2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Rameau: Les Indes galantes
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1974
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Händel: Tamerlano - The Sony Opera House
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 14 Feb 1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lully: Alceste ou le triomphe d'Alcide
Opera - Released by naïve classique on 1 Jan 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Händel: Serse - The Sony Opera House
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1979
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy, Mirella Giardelli, Christine Plubeau, Philippe Couvert, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Jean-Luc Thommerieux
Classical - Released by Phaia Music on 31 Oct 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
George Frideric Handel: Concerti grossi opp. 3 & 6
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1976
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Händel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music Suite 1-3 - Sony Classical Masters
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1974
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, K. 581 & Clarinet Concerto, K. 622
Jean-Claude Veilhan, Stadler Quartett, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released by Phaia Music on 29 Jul 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Neukomm: Missa Solemnis (Live)
Choeur de Chambre de Namur, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Unknown Artist
Classical - Released by Phaia Music on 30 Sep 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV. 153
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Les chemins du baroque, Vol. 2: Mexico-Versailles – Vêpres de l'Assomption
Maîtrise Nationale de Versailles, Compañia Musical de las Américas, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Unknown Artist
Classical - Released by Phaia Music on 30 Sep 2016
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Live Version)
Jean-Claude Malgoire, Pierre Cao, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy
Opera - Released by naïve classique on 1 Jan 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1981
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Les Paladins
La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius, Danièle Salzer, Michel Laplénie
Classical - Released by Arion on 15 Oct 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Orlando (La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy - Jean-Claude Malgoire)
Full Operas - Released by K617 on 25 Mar 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo