Orchestre Lamoureux
A private concert organization, the Orchestra of Lamoureux Concerts has one of the longest histories and most honored names in the history of Parisian symphonic music. In the 1990s it began emerging from a period when its historical prestige far exceeded its present artistic merit.
Conductor Charles Lamoureux (1834-1899) was offered a contract by the Théätre du Château d'Eau to give weekly symphonic concerts. His orchestra, named the Société des Nouveaux-Concerts, gave its first performance on October 23, 1881. It had competitors: the Association Artistiques, founded by Colonne in 1874, and the Concert Populaires led by Jules Etienne Pasdeloup (1819-1887). When the Nouveaux-Concerts merged with a short-lived rival (Concerts de l'Opéra) in 1897 and took the name Concerts Lamoureux, the new name was only a ratification of what he had been called informally for years, and also honored its leader, who retired that year and gave his son-in-law the post of conductor.
After Lamoureux died in 1899, his musicians organized into a co-operative society to continue the orchestra. It remained an important force in French music, giving the premieres of both the Nocturnes (1900) and La Mer (1903) by Debussy, and numerous other new works. When World War I depleted its ranks, it temporarily merged with the Concerts Colonne (which had similarly perpetuated itself following Colonne's death).
Paris between the wars was a world center of new music. The Colonne and Lamoureux separated and the Concerts Pasdeloup was revived in 1920, each writing chapters in the busy musical history of that era. Paul Paray, Albert Wolff, and Eugène Bigot conducted the Lamoureux (and the other two, as well). A change in the way the symphony business in Paris was conducted was foreshadowed in 1937, when the government funded the National Orchestra of RTF (the French radio service) for broadcasting purposes. This evolution was stalled for a while by the German occupation of 1940-1944, which slowed concert life, but the Lamoureux survived. Jean Martinon and Igor Markevitch were among its chief conductors in the decades after the war, but the private orchestras declined in quality as the state-sponsored groups took the forefront of orchestral music. Competition got even worse when the Conservatorie Concerts were disbanded in 1968 to be replaced by the full-time professional Orchestre de Paris. This resulted in the decline of all three private concert series.
The 96 musicians of the Lamoureux Concert Orchestra began to rebuild their historic prestige. In 1993, after two guest appearances by virtually unknown conductor Yutaka Sado, the orchestra hired him as their chief conductor. Under his leadership the Lamoureux Orchestra began recording again and its first recording was a group of Jacques Ibert competitions on the Naxos label and then began a program to record many of the masterworks by Ravel and others that the orchestra had premiered.
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 5 & Ode à la joie de la Symphonie No. 9 (Mono Version)
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor - Bruch: Kol Nidrei (Stereo Version)
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Grieg: Chanson et berceuse de Solveig, extraits de Peer Gynt (Mono Version)
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Liszt: Les préludes, S. 97 & Rhapsodie hongroise No. 2 - Beethoven: 3 Ouvertures (Stereo Version)
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Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Ravel: Concerto pour piano in G Major & Concerto pour la main gauche (Mono Version)
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Ganne: Les saltimbanques
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Paganini: Concerto pour violon No. 4 (Mono Version)
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
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Liszt: Les préludes & Rhapsodie hongroise No. 2 - Beethoven: 3 Ouvertures (Mono Version)
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Peer Gynt (Mono Version)
Hiegel Pierre, Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Fournet
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1952
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Mozart: Sérénade No. 9, K. 320 (Mono Version)
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Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1952
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 by Clara Haskil
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20; Piano Concerto No. 24
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Works of Lili Boulanger: Du Fond De L'abime - Psaume 24 & 129 - Vieille Prière Bouddhique - Pie Jesu (Transferred from the Original Everest Records Master Tapes)
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Classique - Paru chez Everest le 1 janv. 1960
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Op.14
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Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 1961
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Tchaikovski: Symphonie 4-Borodine: Dans les steppes de l'Asie centrale-Moussorgski: Une nuit sur le mont chauve
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Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 1 janv. 2006
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Gounod: Ballet de Faust - Delibes: Coppélia & Sylvia, suites de ballet (Mono Version)
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Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1958
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Beethoven: Overtures (Igor Markevitch – The Deutsche Grammophon Legacy: Volume 4)
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Cherubini: Anacreon Overture; Auber: La muette de Portici Overture (Igor Markevitch – The Deutsche Grammophon Legacy: Volume 9)
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