Marc Minkowski
Conductor Marc Minkowski is best known as the founder and longtime director of Les Musiciens du Louvre, a pioneering French Baroque ensemble that has also proven one of the field's most durable. He has also conducted music of the Classical and Romantic periods, often unearthing and shaping performances of forgotten works.
Minkowski was born in Paris on October 4, 1962. His father was a pediatrics professor and a founder of the field of neonatology; his mother came from the U.S. Minkowski began his career as a bassoonist and soon became interested in the growing field of historical performance, performing with such leading groups of the day as Les Arts Florissants, the Ricercar Consort, and the Clemencic Consort. He studied conducting with Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, Maine, and returned to Europe determined to apply what he had learned to early music. In 1982, he founded Les Musiciens du Louvre, one of the first instrumental groups to specialize in the French Baroque, and he got a boost when he won the first International Early Music Competition in Bruges, Belgium, two years later. Under Minkowski, the orchestra has premiered unusual works in both the operatic and instrumental fields, such as Marin Marais' Alcyone, Jean-Joseph Mouret's Les amours de Ragonde, and Jean-Baptiste Lully's Phaëton. He has also been associated with the revival of several neglected operas of Handel. Beginning in the late '80s, Minkowski began recording with Les Musiciens du Louvre for many years on the Erato label and later for Archiv Produktion. His recorded repertory focused on little-known Baroque works, but he also recorded perennial favorites, such as Handel's Water Music, in 1998.
Les Musiciens du Louvre moved to the city of Grenoble in 1996 and became associates of the Maison de la Culture de Grenoble. Minkowski remains the ensemble's conductor, but in the second part of his career, his interests have grown to include music of the Classical and Romantic eras. He was ahead of most other historically inclined conductors who have taken this career turn. Minkowski has unearthed little-known works such as Grétry's La Caravane du Caire and, in 2013, he conducted a recording of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, paired with a little-known setting of a condensed version of the Wagner libretto by Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch. He has a distinguished record as a guest conductor with top-flight orchestras, including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Staatskapelle Dresden, among others. On the Naïve label, he began to record 19th century music, including a cycle of Schubert's symphonies in 2012 and several of the operas of Jacques Offenbach. In 2020, Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre released a recording of Mozart's Mass in C minor, K. 427, on the PentaTone label. In the 2020s, he has worked with the Baroque specialty labels Château de Versailles (on 2022's Rameau: Nouvelle Symphonie) and Palazzetto Bru Zane (on Meyebeer's opera Robert le Diable, with the Orchestra National Bordeaux Aquitaine the same year). His catalog of recordings comprises more than 70 items.
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Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable
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Joseph Haydn : London Symphonies (Symphonies londoniennes)
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Mozart : Mass K.427 "Great" (Recons. H. Eder) [Live]
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Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto
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Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 29.10.2021
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Handel: Ariodante
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archiv Produktion am 01.01.1997
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Opera Proibita (Bonus Track Version)
Cecilia Bartoli, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.2005
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Offenbach : La Périchole (Live)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux
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Jean-Philippe Rameau : Une symphonie imaginaire (Live)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archiv Produktion am 02.05.2005
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archiv Produktion am 01.01.2004
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Mondonville: Titon et l'Aurore, Op. 7
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Catherine Napoli, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Oper - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 07.10.2022
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Carmen - L'Arlésienne
Klassik - Erschienen bei naïve classique am 17.03.2008
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Berlioz: Les nuits d'été opus 7 - Harold en Italie opus 16
Klassik - Erschienen bei naïve classique am 10.10.2011
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Handel Edition Volume 2 - Il Trionfo del Tempo, Teseo, Amadigi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics International am 23.06.2009
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Rossini: Figaro? Sì!
Florian Sempey, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Marc Minkowski
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 22.04.2022
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Offenbach: La Belle Hélène
Felicity Lott, Michel Sénéchal, Yann Beuron, Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 06.09.2001
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J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion (St John Passion)
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Richard Wagner : Der Fliegende Holländer - Pierre-Louis Dietsch : Le vaisseau fantôme ou le maudit des mers
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Pierre-Louis Dietsch
Klassik - Erschienen bei naïve classique am 04.11.2013
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Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers
Natalie Dessay, Laurent Naouri, Véronique Gens, Ewa Podles, Marc Minkowski, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
Oper - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 01.10.1998
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