Collegium Vocale Gent
Collegium Vocale Gent (or Ghent) was among the earliest groups of the historical-performance practice trend to apply Baroque performance treatments to vocal music. The best-known and most successful of several ensembles named "Collegium Vocale," the group from Ghent is noted for its readings of music from the Baroque and Renaissance. However, the Collegium's repertoire stretches forward through the Classical and Romantic periods and even into new music. Under the direction of founder and artistic director Philippe Herreweghe, the Collegium has issued more than 100 albums and has collaborated with many leading modern- and historical-performance ensembles. The group celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020 with a box set collection and issued a recording of Monteverdi's Fourth Book of Madrigals in 2022.
Collegium Vocale was founded in 1970 by Herreweghe and several classmates while attending the University of Ghent. A scholar of Baroque performance practices, Herreweghe initiated the ensemble to apply methods that were being used by instrumental ensembles in the growing historical-instrument movement to vocal music. Collegium Vocale is a flexible ensemble that has its own accompanying orchestra when needed, depending on the music being performed. The music of the German Baroque, especially Bach, has been a specialty of the ensemble from its early days, but its flexibility allows for the performance of music from the Renaissance (Gesualdo, Monteverdi), Classical (Mozart, Haydn), Romantic (Beethoven, Brahms), and even as far forward as Stravinsky and oratorios by contemporary composers.
Herreweghe's approach to performance with Collegium Vocale was noticed early on by such luminaries as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt, and Ton Koopman. The Collegium was joined by Koopman and his Musica Antiqua of Amsterdam for its debut recording in 1976, taking in Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale on the Telefunken label's Das Alte Werk imprint. Following its continued success, Collegium Vocale was invited by Harnoncourt and Leonhardt to perform on their complete recordings of Bach's cantatas. The Collegium continues to frequently appear with original-instrument groups, including the Freiburger Barockorchester and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, as well as modern-instrument ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
In 1993, the Collegium and Herreweghe were appointed Cultural Ambassadors of Flanders. Its touring activities have taken it to Asia, Australia, and the Americas, as well as throughout Europe. Collegium Vocale has recorded widely on such labels as Harmonia Mundi, Virgin, and Ricercar, among others. Herreweghe founded the Phi label in 2010, where most of the group's music is now issued. From 2011 to 2013, the Collegium was an Ambassador of the European Union, and since 2017, it has hosted Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi, a summer festival in Tuscany. The group has continued recording prolifically, issuing multiple albums most years. In 2020, the Collegium released a collection of recordings made on Phi in the 2010s to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Following several releases in 2021, including Carlo Gesualdo: Dolcissima mia vita, the Collegium Vocale issued Monteverdi: Anima dolorosa and a 10-disc set of sacred choral works by Bach in 2022.
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Johannes Brahms : Œuvres pour chœur & orchestre
Ann Hallenberg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 10.11.2011
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Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (Remastered)
Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 01.05.1990
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Igor Stravinsky : Monumentum - Mass - Symphonie de Psaumes
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Pentatone am 01.04.2010
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Monteverdi: Il quarto libro de madrigali
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 06.05.2022
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Fauré : Requiem (Version 1901 pour grand orchestre)
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent, La Chapelle Royale
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 16.04.2013
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Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Philippe Herreweghe, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 12.03.2013
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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 01.01.1992
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Bach: Cantatas for Bass (Remastered)
Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 01.12.1991
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Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium, BWV 11 (Remastered)
Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 01.10.1993
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Haydn : Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Geistliche Oratorien - Erschienen bei Phi am 02.10.2015
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Gesualdo: Responsoria 1611
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 23.08.2013
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Ach süßer Trost !
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 25.09.2012
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Gesualdo: O dolce mio tesoro. Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro sesto (1611)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 28.10.2016
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Bach: Cantatas for Trinity (Remastered)
Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 01.02.2003
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Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E Minor & Te Deum
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 23.10.2020
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Liszt: Via Crucis
Collegium Vocale Gent, Reinbert de Leeuw
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 01.03.2019
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Janáček: Říkadla
Collegium Vocale Gent, Het Collectief, Reinbert de Leeuw
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 13.11.2015
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Purcell: Funeral Sentences
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 07.06.1993
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Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent, Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phi am 12.03.2013
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Stravinsky : Threni & Requiem Canticles
Collegium Vocale Gent, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Philippe Herreweghe
Geistliche Vokalmusik - Erschienen bei Phi am 20.05.2016
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Lassus: Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 23.02.2006
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