La tempête
French vocal and instrumental ensemble La Tempête has attempted to present classical music in a new way, through staging and collaborations that immerse audiences in the spirit of a work. Rooted in Baroque music, the group mixes early music and contemporary works and collaborates with ensembles outside musical media.
La Tempête was founded in 2015 by Simon-Pierre Bestion, whose background was in early music: he studied organ and harpsichord at the Conservatoire de Nantes and has played continuo with the early music vocal group Les Cris de Paris. Becoming interested in choral repertory, he studied in Nantes with Valérie Fayet and also took classes in choral conducting at the Lyon Conservatory of Music and Dance. Bestion and gambist Julie Dessaint founded the Europa Barocca chamber ensemble in 2007, and Bestion then founded the choir Luce del Canto. These two groups were merged to form La Tempête in 2015.
The group's composition was thus diverse from the beginning, and Bestion intensified this trend as the ensemble developed, striving to attract performers of different backgrounds and, in his own words, "to explore musical pieces while imbuing a really personal and incarnate engagement, similar to the current approaches in performing arts." La Tempête has collaborated with artists in the fields of electro-acoustic music, theater, dance, lights, and video. The group has attracted substantial French government and private support from the Fondation Orange, the Mécénat Musical Sociéte Générale, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Department of Corrèze, and the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde. La Tempête has released three albums on the Alpha label, The Tempest (2015), including English Renaissance music associated with the Shakespeare play, Azahar (2017), featuring music by Machaut and Stravinsky as well as excerpts from the Cantigas de Santa Maria corpus of monophonic song, and Larmes de Résurrection (2018), an album of music by Heinrich Schütz and Johann Hermann Schein. La Tempête and Bestion returned in 2019 with the album Monteverdi: Vespro, featuring Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV, 206, and three years later, issued the album Hypnos on Alpha. The group's performing repertoire has stretched from traditional music to contemporary works, and in 2022, it premiered a new vocal work, L'Enfant noir (known in English as The Dark Child), based on the novel by Camara Laye and featuring music by Jean-Louis Florentz.
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11 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Bach minimaliste
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 25.08.2023
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Monteverdi: Vespro
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 04.10.2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Nocturne: Rachmaninov Vespers & Byzantine Hymns
Simon-Pierre Bestion, La tempête
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 14.10.2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Scarlatti & Dvořák: Stabat Mater
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 08.03.2024
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Azahar
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 10.02.2017
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Larmes de Résurrection (Schütz - Schein)
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion, Georges Abdallah
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 23.02.2018
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Hypnos
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 07.01.2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
The Tempest (Locke, Purcell, Martin, Hersant, Pécou)
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 24.04.2015
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Messe de requiem: Sanctus
La tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 03.12.2021
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Pluie : Conduire Sous la Pluie, le Tonnerre, se Cachant sous un Arbre (Rainfall meditations)
Pleuvoir, Le Tonnerre, La tempête
New Age - Erschienen bei Rain Forest 2016 am 28.11.2016
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo