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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Gounod: Ballet de Faust (Mono Version)
Gustave Cloëz, Orchestre Lamoureux
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1955
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Spanish Capriccio, Op. 34 (Mono Version)
Jean Fournet, Orchestre Lamoureux
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1957
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Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Mono Version)
Jean Fournet, Orchestre Lamoureux
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1959
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Westeuropa zwischen Barock und Rokoko: Serie F. Ballett und Oper (Stereo Version)
Edith Selig, Éric Marion, Orchestre Lamoureux, Marcel Couraud
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1963
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Beethoven: Concerto pour violon, Op. 61 (Mono Version)
Franco Gulli, Orchestre Lamoureux, Rudolf Albert
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1960
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Brahms: Concerto pour piano No. 1, Op. 15 (Mono Version)
Paul von Schilhawsky, Orchestre Lamoureux, Albert von Kölliker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1961
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Berlioz, H.: Troyens (Les) (Orchestral Excerpts) (Lamoureux Orchestra, Martinon) (1951)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Martinon
Classical - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on 1 Jan 2000
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Berlioz: Symphonie Phantastique, Op. 14
Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux
Classical - Released by Ancien Prodige on 4 Aug 2023
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Milestones of a Conductor Legend: Igor Markevitch, Vol. 8
Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on 4 Oct 2019
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Milestones of a Piano Legend: Nikita Magaloff, Vol. 4
Nikita Magaloff, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Lamoureux, Willem van Otterloo, Roberto Benzi
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on 6 Sep 2019
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Milestones of a Conductor Legend: Igor Markevitch, Vol. 1
Orchestre Lamoureux, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de France, Choeur de Radio France, Igor Markevitch
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on 4 Oct 2019
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Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417, 'Tragic'
Otto Klemperer, Orchestre Lamoureux
Classical - Released by Ancien Prodige on 8 Jan 2024
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Milestones of a Conductor Legend: Igor Markevitch, Vol. 10
Orchestre Lamoureux, Philharmonia Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, Igor Markevitch
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on 4 Oct 2019
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Rossini Ouvertures
Orchestre Lamoureux, Wiener Symphoniker
Opera - Released by Sinetone PCA on 8 Apr 2016
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Milestones of a Conductor Legend: Igor Markevitch, Vol. 7
Orchestre Lamoureux, Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on 4 Oct 2019
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Milestones of a Piano Legend: Magda Tagliaferro, Vol. 8
Magda Tagliaferro, Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Fournet
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on 3 May 2019
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Milestones of a Conductor Legend: Igor Markevitch, Vol. 9
Orchestre Lamoureux, Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
Classical - Released by Intense Media GmbH on 4 Oct 2019
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El Amor Brujo (The Bewitched Love)
Classical - Released by Sinetone PCA on 11 Nov 2015
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Bizet: Carmen & L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2
Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux
Classical - Released by Sunday Club Records on 12 Mar 2014
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Noches en los Jardins de España (Nights In The Gardens Of Spain)
Classical - Released by Sinetone PCA on 11 Nov 2015
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