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
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 5 gen 2024
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Marais: Ariane et Bacchus
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 24 mar 2023
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Handel: Coronation Anthems
Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 19 ago 2022
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Orazio Benevolo : Missa si Deus pro nobis - Magnificat
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Messe, Passioni, Requiem - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 25 mag 2018
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Berlioz : Messe solennelle
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 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
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 14 ott 2016
Gramophone Award24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Lully: Persée 1770 (Collection "Château de Versailles")
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 10 mar 2017
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat (Alpha Collection)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 1 nov 2015
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Handel: Messiah 1754
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 13 ott 2017
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Handel, G.F.: Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks (George Frideric Handel)
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 1 gen 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)
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 1 gen 2006
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Vivaldi : Gloria & Magnificat
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Musica vocale sacra - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 1 nov 2015
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Lully: Armide 1778
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Véronique Gens, Reinoud Van Mechelen
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 19 giu 2020
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J. Gilles - Requiem
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Division Decca Records France il 1 gen 1989
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Te Deum
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 6 ago 2021
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Charpentier: Messe pour Monsieur Mauroy, H. 6
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Unknown Artist
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 6 dic 2002
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Campra: Le carnaval de Venise
Opera - Pubblicato da Glossa il 5 set 2011
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Les grandes eaux musicales 2007 du Château de Versailles
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, Unknown Artist
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 10 lug 2020
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Boismortier: Daphnis et Chloé, Op. 102
Opera - Pubblicato da Glossa il 26 giu 2020
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Boismortier, J.B.: Chamber Music (Joseph Bodin Boismortier)
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 1 gen 2004
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Desmarets, H.: Grand Motets, Vol. 2 - De Profundis (Le Concert Spirituel) (Henry Desmarets - Anonymous)
Classica - Pubblicato da Glossa il 1 gen 2005
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