VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The French Romantic Experience Marc Minkowski, Hervé Niquet, François-Xavier Roth, Christophe Rousset, Diana Damrau, Véronique Gens, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, etc [ Bru Zane / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Well worth anyone's attention, especially those attracted to the less familiar areas of 19th-century repertoire. In fact, I have rarely encountered a 'compilation' that has yielded so much listening pleasure" Gramophone |
FERNAND de la TOMBELLE
La Tombelle: Musique De Chambre, Chorale et Symphonique (complete operetta) Brussels Philharmonic, Hannes Minnaar (piano) Flemish Radio Choir, Jeff Cohen, Yann Beuron (tenor), Pascal Amoyel, Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Herve [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 15/Nov/2019 ] "The music's engaging, the performances decent, and the whole serves as a salutary reminder that you don't have to be a Beethoven to deserve a spot in the sun." The Times |
CHARPENTIER
Music for the Prix de Rome Brussels Philharmonic / Orchestra of Flanders / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 20/May/2012 ] |
SAINT-SAENS
Music for the Prix de Rome Julie Fuchs, Marina De Liso, Solenn’ Lavanant Linke, Bernard Richter / Brussels Philharmonic & Flemish Radio Choir, Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2011 ] "The performances seem uniformly excellent and the sound quality is first-rate." (International Record Review) |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, ou Les Dieux d'Égypte Carolyn Sampson, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Blandine Staskiewicz, Jennifer Borghi, etc / Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "Few ensembles do French baroque as well as Le Concert Spirituel with their conductor Hervé Niquet. There's a real understanding here of the innate sexiness of this music...orchestral and choral sound is wonderfully rich without ever turning pompous" |
JOSEPH MICHEL
Michel: Lecons De Tenebres Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/1998 ] Recorded March/April 1997 |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: :Grand Motets, Vol. 2 Concert Spirituel Chorus, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] "The performances here are first-rate, with an accomplished and idiomatic crew of soloists, and fine work from the band and chorus. These are still the only available recordings of three of the four motets. A real buy from Naxos. Warmly recommended."... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Grands Motets Vol.3 Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Cantates et Musique Sacree Gabrielle Philiponet (soprano), Sébastien Droy (tenor) / Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 26/Jan/2018 ] "The choral singing has wonderful richness, clarity and fervour, above all in the Messe vocale, which is breathtaking. A tremendous set, it adds immeasurably to our understanding of Gounod's work. Very highly recommended indeed." Gramophone |
PAUL DUKAS
Dukas: Cantates, choeurs et musique symphonique Flemish Radio Choir & Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 13/Nov/2015 ] "These orchestral and choral performances are much more than adequate, and Hervé Niquet brings out every textural point he can in Dukas's scoring." Guardian |
FELICIEN DAVID
David: Christophe Colomb & Musique de chambre, symphonique et sacrée, etc Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 3 CD/Book - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "The performances are fabulous. François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles mine the textures and sonorities of Christophe Colomb for all their worth" Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2017 |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Music for the Prix de Rome Guylaine Girard / Sophie Marilley / Bernard Richter / Alain Buet / Brussels Philharmonic / Orchestra of Flanders / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 16/Mar/2010 ] Claude Debussy presented himself as a candidate for the Prix de Rome on three separate occasions during the 1880s, the most innovative decade in the history of that competition; a time when success entitled the victors (at the French government's... |
PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas Laura Pudwell, Peter Harvey, Salomé Haller / Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "This lively account by Le Concert Spirituel, with mainly English singers, led by Laura Pudwell...but an excellent French chorus, is fresh and exhilarating, one or two dubious vocal decorations apart." Sunday Times, 21st July 2013 |
PAUL DUKAS
Oeuvres pour piano [Pieces for piano] Hervé Billaut (piano) [ Mirare / CD - released 15/Aug/2015 ] For the 150th anniversary of Paul Dukas, Herve Billaut's new CD focusses on his piano music. Out of the 14 works composed by Paul Dukas (only 14!), 6 were written for the piano. The two most substantial works are the Sonata of 1899-1900, and... |
REYNALDO HAHN
Reynaldo Hahn: L'île du rêve Hervé Niquet, Hélène Guilmette, Artavazd Sargsyan, Cyrille Dubois, Münchner Runddfunkorchester, Ludivine Gombert, Thomas Dolié, Chœur du Concert Spiri [ Bru Zane / CD/Book - released 23/Oct/2020 ] "To have written that, you must be a poet", Massenet told Reynaldo Hahn when he read through the score of L Île du rêve. Composed when the young man was not yet eighteen years old, this curtain-raiser already had the qualities of the great works of... |
ANDRE-MODESTE GRETRY
Gretry: Richard Coeur de Lion Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "An early example of the "rescue opera" genre, anticipating Beethoven's Fidelio, it's stylishly sung and robustly played. A DVD of the old-fashioned but charming staging is included." Sunday Times |
Herve/Lovett/Green/Sugitani
Waitin For Benny: A Tribute To [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
LOUIS-FERDINAND HEROLD
Herold: Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3 and 4 Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano) / Sinfonia Varsovia / Herve Niquet [ Mirare / CD - released 17/Aug/2011 ] When the doors of an operatic career opened for Hérold, around 1820, he took good care to hide away the piano concertos he had written shortly after 1810 so as to avoid accusations of eclecticism. Left to languish in obscurity until our own time,... |
CHARPENTIER
Lecons de Tenebres de la Semaine Sainte de 1692 Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - June 2002 |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse Le Concert Spirituel (early music ensemble); Hervé Niquet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] In 1743, two years before Rameau's Platee, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people... |