Le Concert Spirituel
Le Concert Spirituel traces not its ancestry, but rather its spirit, back to the famed French concert series of the 18th century, offering performances of Baroque music, including opera, on historically appropriate instruments.
Le Concert Spirituel was founded in 1987 by harpsichordist and choral conductor Hervé Niquet, who remains its director. Le Concert Spirituel has naturally focused on French music, but has also performed Italian, English, and other works. Its initial impetus was Niquet's desire to perform and record works from the neglected grand motet repertory. In association with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, it has focused on performance in situ of the music of French composers of the 17th century from Charpentier to Lully. But it has also given many performances elsewhere, from the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, London's Barbican Centre and Royal Albert Hall (for the BBC Proms), the Luxemburg Philharmonie, BOZAR in Brussels, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Theater an der Wien, the Tokyo Opera, and the Shanghai Concert Hall.
After its debut in 1989 with a recording of the Requiem of Jean Gilles, Le Concert Spirituel recorded for Adda, Virgin, and Naxos, for which it issued cycles of grands motets and other large-scale sacred works by Lully and Charpentier. The latter cycle continued on Glossa, for which Le Concert Spirituel has mostly recorded since a 2001 recording of the Charpentier Te Deum. It has also recorded operas for Glossa, including Boismortier's Daphnis et Chloé, Destouches' Callirhoé, Marais' Sémélé, and Grétry's Andromaque. The group has also emphasized the continuity of the French heritage by performing and recording music composed for the French Prix de Rome competition by Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Gustave Charpentier, and others. It has mounted large-scale productions in collaboration with directors and choreographers including Gilles and Corinne Benizio (Shirley et Dino), Karol Armitage, Georges Lavaudant, and Joachim Schloemer, and it has presented full-size performances of Striggio's Mass for 40 and 60 Voices and Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks.
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Charpentier: Médée
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 5 jan. 2024
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Marais: Ariane et Bacchus
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 24 mrt. 2023
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Handel: Coronation Anthems
Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 19 aug. 2022
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Orazio Benevolo : Missa si Deus pro nobis - Magnificat
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Missen, passies, requiems - Released by Alpha Classics on 25 mei 2018
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Berlioz : Messe solennelle
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 nov. 2019
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Cherubini & Plantade: Requiems pour Louis XVI (Live Recording at La Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 14 okt. 2016
Gramophone Award24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Messiah 1754
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 13 okt. 2017
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Lully: Persée 1770 (Collection "Château de Versailles")
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 10 mrt. 2017
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat (Alpha Collection)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 nov. 2015
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Handel, G.F.: Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks (George Frideric Handel)
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 1 jan. 2003
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Charpentier, M.-A.: Messe A 8 Voix Et 8 Violons Et Flutes / Te Deum A 8 Voix Avec Flutes Et Violons (Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Anonymous)
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 1 jan. 2006
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Vivaldi : Gloria & Magnificat
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Religieuze vocale muziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 nov. 2015
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Lully: Armide 1778
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Véronique Gens, Reinoud Van Mechelen
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 19 jun. 2020
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J. Gilles - Requiem
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 1 jan. 1989
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Te Deum
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 6 aug. 2021
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Charpentier: Messe pour Monsieur Mauroy, H. 6
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Unknown Artist
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 6 dec. 2002
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Campra: Le carnaval de Venise
Opera - Released by Glossa on 5 sep. 2011
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Les grandes eaux musicales 2007 du Château de Versailles
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Unknown Artist
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 10 jul. 2020
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Boismortier: Daphnis et Chloé, Op. 102
Opera - Released by Glossa on 26 jun. 2020
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Boismortier, J.B.: Chamber Music (Joseph Bodin Boismortier)
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 1 jan. 2004
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Desmarets, H.: Grand Motets, Vol. 2 - De Profundis (Le Concert Spirituel) (Henry Desmarets - Anonymous)
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 1 jan. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo