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: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral' (Igor Markevitch – The Deutsche Grammophon Legacy: Volume 6)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. le 1 janv. 1957
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants
Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 2004
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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Children's Corner, Trois nocturnes pour orchestre & Tarantelle styrienne (Mono Version)
Jean Fournet, Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1959
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Milhaud: Les Choéphores; Honegger: Symophony No. 5; Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane (Igor Markevitch – The Deutsche Grammophon Legacy: Volume 15)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. le 1 janv. 1997
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Rameau: Pigmalion; Troisième Concert From "Les Indes Galantes"
Orchestre Lamoureux, Marcel Courand, Choeur Raymond Saint-Paul
Classique - Paru chez Archiv Produktion le 1 janv. 1962
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Prokofiev: L'amour des trois oranges, suite symphonique & Symphonie No. 1 "Classique" (Mono Version)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Martinon
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1954
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 55 "Le maître d'école" & 85 "La reine" - Angerer: Symphonie des jouets (Mono Version)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Roberto Benzi
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1962
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Ravel Conducts Ravel
Monique Haas, Maurice Ravel, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Orchestre Lamoureux, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Classique - Paru chez Profil le 8 oct. 2021
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 6 "Pastorale" (Mono Version)
Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1959
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Westeuropa zwischen Barock und Rokoko: Serie B. Am Hofe Ludwigs XIV (Mono Version)
Bernard Plantey, Orchestre Lamoureux, Marcel Couraud
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1959
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Wagner: Ouverture de Tannhäuser & Préludes de Lohengrin (Mono Version)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Chopin: Concerto pour piano No. 2 - Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Mono Version)
Clara Haskil, Igor Markevitch, Orchestre Lamoureux
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1961
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Conte pour enfants - Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux
Jésus Etcheverry, Orchestre Lamoureux, Mireille
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 24 avr. 2020
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Conte pour enfants - Prokofiev: Pierre et le loup
Jésus Etcheverry, Jean Nohain, Orchestre Lamoureux
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 10 avr. 2020
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 "Classical", Suite from The Love for Three Oranges & Piano Concerto No. 3 (Mono Version)
Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Martinon, Alexandre Uninsky
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1958
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Orchestral Music (French) - Mehul, E.-N. / Berlioz, H. / Lalo, E. / Saint-Saens, C. / Charpentier, G. / Roussel, A. / Dupont, G.E.X.
Orchestre Lamoureux, Jeanne-Marie Darre, Jean Boulze, Albert Wolff
Classique - Paru chez Timpani le 1 janv. 1994
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Clara Haskil Plays Mozart & Scarlatti
Clara Haskil, Orchestre Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
Musique concertante - Paru chez Jube Classic le 3 juin 2014
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor - Bruch: Kol Nidrei (Mono Version)
Pierre Fournier, Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Martinon
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1961
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Chausson: Poème, Op. 25 - Ravel: Tzigane - Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21, extraits (Mono Version)
Arthur Grumiaux, Orchestre Lamoureux, Jean Fournet
Classique - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1955
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Haydn: Concerto pour violoncelle No. 2 - Boccherini: Concerto pour violoncelle No. 9 (Stereo Version)
Maurice Gendron, Orchestre Lamoureux, Pablo Casals
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Mozart, Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
David Oïstrakh, Bernard Haitink, Orchestre Lamoureux
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1963
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