Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées is distinctive in several respects among the various period-instrument groups active in France. The group offers performances of music from Haydn to Debussy on instruments appropriate to the composer's time.
The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées was co-founded in 1991 by Alain Durel, director of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, and conductor Philippe Herreweghe, who remains the group's conductor and music director. Among the community of early music conductors, Herreweghe has been notable for extending the concept of historical-instrument performance into the Romantic era, and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées has devoted itself to the performance of music from Haydn forward to Mahler and Debussy, using instruments from the time of the work being performed. Sometimes the group even seeks to use the instruments on which a work was played at its first performance. More generally, the orchestra seeks (as stated on its website in 2020), "in a spirit comparable to that of the restorers of works of art restoring the original colors of the masterpieces of the great painters by skillful cleaning, to approach each score from a new perspective, re-examining many of the readings of these works which, over time, have deposited traditions that are sometimes far removed from the composer's original concerns."
During the first part of its career, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées held ongoing residencies at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Since then, the group has appeared at major venues in many countries, including the Musikverein in Vienna, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and Lincoln Center in New York. In addition to Herreweghe, the orchestra has been led by a range of guest conductors, including Daniel Harding, Christophe Coin, and René Jacobs. A novel feature of the group's annual concert season is that each concert is performed in a variety of French cities, in venues such as the Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, with which the orchestra has an ongoing association.
The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées has made more than 20 recordings. Until 2011, the group recorded mostly for the Harmonia Mundi label before forming the Phi imprint under the auspices of the Outhere label. The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées maintains its own training program, operated mostly by the instrumentalists themselves; the Jeune Orchestre de l'Abbaye was founded in 1996 and was one of the first such programs aimed at introducing young musicians to period performances of music of the Classical and Romantic eras.
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Joseph Haydn : Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons / Les Saisons)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Phi on 8 Apr 2014
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Missa solemnis
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Classical - Released by Phi on 6 Nov 2012
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Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Classical - Released by Phi on 28 Oct 2022
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Johannes Brahms : Œuvres pour chœur & orchestre
Ann Hallenberg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Classical - Released by Phi on 10 Nov 2011
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Haydn : Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Sacred Oratorios - Released by Phi on 2 Oct 2015
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Mahler: Symphonie No. 4
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe, Rosemary Joshua
Classical - Released by Phi on 18 Nov 2010
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Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E Minor & Te Deum
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Classical - Released by Phi on 23 Oct 2020
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Haydn: Concertos pour violon Nos. 1, 3 & 4
Giuliano Carmignola, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Classical - Released by Archiv Produktion on 1 Jan 2012
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Les dernières symphonies (The Last Symphonies)
Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Symphonic Music - Released by Phi on 21 May 2013
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Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer's Night Dream)
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and Philippe Herreweghe
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Jan 1994
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Schumann: Concertos pour violoncelle, Op.129, pour piano, Op.54
Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Andreas Staier, Christophe Coin
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 12 Jun 2001
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Brahms: Symphony 4, Alt-Rhapsodie, Schicksalslied
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent, Ann Hallenberg
Classical - Released by Phi on 24 Feb 2017
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Schubert: Mass in A-Flat Major
Philippe Herreweghe, Rias Kammerchor, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Nov 2002
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Schumann: Complete Symphonies
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 22 Jun 2015
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 24 Mar 2009
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Bruckner: Symphonie No. 4 en Mi Bémol Majeur, Op. 95
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 23 Mar 2006
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Symphonies from Dukas, Roussel, Ravel & Milhaud
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Lamoureux, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Classical - Released by Ermitage Rc on 29 Apr 2020
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Jolivet, A.: Piano Concerto / Concertino for Trumpet and Piano / Andante (Descaves, Theatre Des Champs-Elysees Orchestra, Bour) (1953)
Lucette Descaves, Roger Del Motte, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Serge Baudo, Ernest Bour
Concertos - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on 30 Sep 2008
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Twist Party (Mono Version)
Dominique, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
French Music - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1962
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Messager: Les deux pigeons Suite - Ballet d'Isoline - Overture to Veronique
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Paul Bonneau
Classical - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on 1 Aug 2012
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Ravel: Ma Mere L'Oye / Rhapsodie Espagnole (Inghelbrecht) (1955)
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Désiré Emile Inghelbrecht
Ballets - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on 1 Jan 2000
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