Le Concert Spirituel

Le Concert Spirituel is a French ensemble specialising in works of baroque music, played on period instruments.[1] Founded by Hervé Niquet in 1987, it is named after the 18th-century concert series Concert Spirituel. The group performs internationally, playing mostly rarely performed sacred music and operas, and making recordings. Its focus is on French music played at the court of Versailles.

This article is about the ensemble. For the concert series, see Concert Spirituel.
Le Concert Spirituel
Orchestra
In concert at the Château de Pupetières on 26 August 2017 as part of the Berlioz Festival
Founded1987 (1987)
Principal conductorHervé Niquet
Websitewww.concertspirituel.com

History

The ensemble is named after Concert Spirituel, the first private concert society in France, founded in the 18th century and dissolved during the French Revolution. The ensemble was founded by Hervé Niquet in 1987,[1] designed to revive the great works of the French repertoire played at the court of Versailles.[2][3]

Le Concert Spirituel collaborates closely with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, with a focus on French composers such as Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully, André Campra and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.[1]

Le Concert Spirituel often plays sacred music,[1] and has also performed operas such as Daphnis et Chloé by Boismortier, Rameau's Pygmalion, Purcell's King Arthur and The Indian Queen,[4] and Mozart's Don Giovanni. The ensemble "rediscovered" forgotten operas from the French repertoire, such as Callirhoé by André Cardinal Destouches, Lully's Proserpine, Sémélé by Marin Marais (chosen as "Opera Recording of the Year", Echo Klassik 2009), Guétry's Andromaque, Campra's Le carnaval de Venise and Catel's Sémiramis.[5][6][7]

At a Proms concert in 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the ensemble played Handel's Water Music and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, with a large formation including 18 oboes, 9 trumpets and 9 trombones, and strings to match. This is an authentic band for the music, which was originally intended to be played in the open air.[8]

Le Concert Spirituel is subsidised by the French Ministry of Culture and the city of Paris. It also receives financial support from the Mécénat Musical Société Générale and the Fondation Bru.[9]

Recordings

Le Concert Spirituel recorded for the Accord, Adda, Virgin and Naxos labels until 1999, and then exclusively for Glossa from 2000 to 2015. Since June 2015, Le Concert Spirituel has recorded exclusively for Alpha Classics.

Awards

Le Concert Spirituel received a 2001 Grammy Award nomination for its recording of Sérénades chez Marie Leczinska by Boismortier.[10] Its recording of Striggio's 40 Voice Mass was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2013.[11]

Its recording of Grétry's Andromaque was awarded a "Chock" by Classica, a Diamant by Opéra Magazine, a Découverte by Diapason and the "Grand Prix du Disque" by the Académie Charles-Cros in 2010.[12]

Its recording of Sémélé was chosen "Opera Recording of the Year" at the Echo Klassik Awards (2009); its recording of Campra's Le Carnaval de Venise won a "German Record Critics’ Award", a Classica magazine "Chock" and a Diamant from Opéra Magazine (2011); Lully's Persée also won a German Record Critics' Award (2017).[13][14][15][16]

DVDs
  • Boismortier, Don quichotte chez la duchesse, Staging: Gilles and Corinne Benizio, Production: Step by Step Productions, Château de Versailles, Le Concert Spirituel, Director: Louise Narboni (Alpha Classics - 2015)
  • Alessandro Striggio, Messe à 40 voix. Les aventuriers de la messe perdue, GVD 921624, Production: Step by Step Productions, Director: Laurent Portes, Olivier Simonnet. (Glossa - 2011)
  • Purcell, King Arthur, GVD 921619, Staging: Gilles and Corinne Benizio (alias Shirley and Dino)
  • Charpentier, Médée H 491, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Director: Olivier Simonet (label Armide Classics / Vox Lucida, distribution Harmonia Mundi - 2004)

Discography

Le Concert Spirituel has recorded the following:[9]

  • L'Opéra des opéras, 2019 Alpha Classics
  • Orazio Benevolo, Missa si deus pro nobis, 2018 Alpha Classics
  • Handel, Messiah, 2017 Alpha Classics
  • Lully, Persée 1770, 2017 Alpha Classics
  • Cherubini, Requiems de Cherubini & Plantade, 2016 Alpha Classics
  • Vivaldi, Gloria & Magnificat, 2015 Alpha Classics
  • Mozart, Les Mystères d'Isis, 2015 Glossa GCD 921630
  • Rameau, Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, 2014, Glossa GES 921629-F
  • Johann Christoph Vogel, La Toison d'or, 2013, Glossa GES 921628-F
  • Louis Le Prince, Missa Macula non est in te, 2013 Glossa GCD 921627
  • Catel, Sémiramis, 2012, Glossa GES 921625-F
  • Striggio, Messe à 40 voix, 2012 Glossa GCDSA 921623
  • Campra, Le Carnaval de Venise, 2011 Glossa GES 921622-F
  • Pierre Bouteiller, Requiem, 2010 Glossa GCD 921621
  • Grétry, Andromaque, 2010, Glossa GES 921620-F
  • Charpentier, Missa Assumpta est Maria H 11 - Pour plusieurs martyrs H 361 - Symphonie pour un reposoir H 508, 1, 2, 5, - O salutaris H 262 - Domine salvum H 303 et H 291 , 2008 Glossa GCD 921617
  • Boismortier, Daphnis & Chloé, Glossa GCD 921618
  • Marais, Sémélé, (world premiere recording), 2007, Glossa GES 921614-F
  • Grandes eaux musicales 2007 du Chaâteau de Versailles, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, 2007 Glossa GCD 921613
  • André Cardinal Destouches, Callirhoé, (world premiere), 2006, Glossa GES 921912-f
  • Charpentier, Messe à 8 voix, 8 violons et flûtes H 3 - Domine salvum H 283 - Te Deum à 8 voix, avec flûtes et violons H 145, 2006 Glossa GCD 921611
  • Henry Desmarest, De Profundis, Veni Creator, Cum Invocarem, 2005 Glossa GCD 921610
  • Boismortier, Sonates pour basses, 2004 Glossa GCD 921609
  • Purcell, King Arthur, 2004 Glossa GCD 921608
  • Charpentier, Coffret Charpentier ‘Te Deum & motets - Messe à 4 voix de Mr Mauroy - Leçons de Ténèbres’, 2003 - Glossa GCD 98003
  • Desmarest, Te deum de Paris – Dominus Regnavit, 2003 - Glossa GCD 21607
  • Handel, Water Music – Fireworks, 2003 - Glossa GCD 921606
  • Boismortier, Daphnis & Chloé, 2002 - Glossa GCD 921605
  • Charpentier, Messe à 4 voix de Mr Mauroy H. 6 - O amor H 253 - Domine salvum H 299 - O salutaris H 262, 1999 - Glossa GCD 921602
  • Charpentier, Leçons de Ténèbres H. 135, H. 136, H. 137 - Méditations H. 380, H. 381, H. 386, H. 388, H. 387, 2002 - Glossa GCD 921604
  • Charpentier, Te Deum H. 146 - Motets, 2001 - Glossa GCD 921603
  • Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, 2001 - Glossa GCD 921601
  • François d'Agincourt, Pièces d’orgue, 2001 - Glossa GCD 921701
  • D'Agincour, Pièces de clavecin, 2001 - Glossa GCD 921702
  • Boismortier, Sérénade, concerto pour basson et pièces pour musette et vielle à roue, 1999 - Naxos 8.554.456/57
  • Charpentier, Vespres chez la Duchesse de Guise, 1998 - Naxos 8.554.453
  • Boismortier, Le Triomphe d'Iris, 1998 - Naxos 8.554.455
  • Paolo Lorenzani, Motets pour le Roy Louis XIV, 1997 - Naxos 8.553.648
  • Joseph Michel, Leçons de Ténèbres, 1997 - Naxos 8.553.295
  • Boismortier, Ballets de Village et sérénade, 1997 - Naxos 8.553.296
  • Charpentier, Messe H 1 - Te Deum à 4 voix H 147, Precatio pro Rege H 166, Élèvation H 275, Canticum Zachariae H 345, 1996 - Naxos 8.553.175
  • Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Cantates pour soprano et basse, Sandrine Piau, 1996 - Naxos 8.553.744
  • Clérambault, Intégrale des sonates, Luc Coadou, 1996 - Naxos 8.553.743
  • Robert de Visée et Francesco Corbetta, Pièces en contrepartie à deux guitares et deux théorbes, 1996 - Naxos 8.553.745
  • Boismortier, Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse, ballet comique en trois actes, 1996 - Naxos 8.553.647
  • Boismortier, Six Concerti à cinq flûtes traversières seules sans basse, 1995 - Naxos 8.553.639
  • Benevolo, Messe et motets à double chœur, 1995 - Naxos 8.553.636
  • Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy, Messe et Magnificat pour orgue et chœur, 1995 - Naxos 8.553.637
  • Charpentier, Vespres à la Vierge, 1995 - Naxos 8.553.174
  • Charpentier, Messe des morts à 4 voix H 7 - Litanies de la Vierge H 89 - De profundis H 213 - Psaume 110 de David à 4 voix H 220 - Nisi Dominus à 4 voix H 160, H 160 a - Élèvation à 5 H 251 - Laudate pueri H 203, 1994 - Naxos 8.553.173
  • Lully, Grands motets vol. 3 : Benedictus, Notus in Judae, Exaudiat te, O dulcissime Jesu, Laudate pueri, Domine Salvum fac Regem, 1994 - Naxos 8.554.399
  • Lully, Grands motets vol. 2 : O Lachrymae, De Profundis, Dies irae, Quare fremuerunt, 1994 - Naxos 8.554.398
  • Lully, Grands motets vol. 1 : Te Deum, Miserere, Plaude LaetareGallia, 1993 - Naxos 8.554.397
  • Rameau, Pigmalion, Le Temple de la Gloire (extraits), 1993 - Virgin Veritas 5 61539 2
  • Rameau, Grands Motets, 1992 - Virgin Veritas 5 61526 2
  • Campra, Messe Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam et motets Cantate Domino, Deus noster Refugium, De Profundis, 1992 - Accord 465 934-2
  • Campra, Requiem, motet Benedictus Dominus, 1991 - Accord 472 236-2
  • Campra, Te Deum, motets Notus in Judea Deus, Deus in Nomine tuo, Adda 241942
  • Boismortier, Motet à grand chœur, motets à voix seule mêlés de symphonies, 1991 - Adda 240172
  • Rossini, La Cambiale di Matrimonio, 1991 - Accord 476 058-2
  • Jean Gilles, Te Deum, motet Diligam te Domine, 1990 - Accord 472 237-2
  • Gilles, Motet à St-Jean Baptiste, Trois Lamentations pour la Semaine Sainte, 1989 - Accord 465 926-2
  • Gilles, Requiem, motet Beatus quem elegisti, 1989 - Accord 465 924-2

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