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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,... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Messe Solennelle Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Composed in 1824 by Hector Berlioz at the age of twenty-one and premiered at the church of Saint-Roch in Paris in 1825, the Messe solennelle has come down to us following an eventful history. After Berlioz declared that he had destroyed the score,... |
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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... |
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CHERUBINI / PLANTADE
Cherubini & Plantade: Requiems pour Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Aug/2017 ] "Niquet brings fresh artistry and specifically French authority honed over decades with Le Concert Spirituel to both works. For me, this is a prize-winning disc" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Choral |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria & Magnificat Le Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Hervé Niquet and his Concert Spirituel offer a programme to the glory of Antonio Vivaldi: his Gloria and Magnificat, genuine masterpieces of sacred vocal music, demonstrate the same variety of styles, tempo and atmospheres that characterise his... |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Lully: Grand Motets Vol. 1 Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Sep/2007 ] "[Niquet] brings declamatory vigour, rhythmic incisiveness and, where the contrast exists, a gentler expressive sensibility to music that is redolent of those gestures typifying Bourbon absolutism during the Grand siècle...A stimulating issue...Once... |
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HANDEL
Handel: Messiah 1754 Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha / 2 CD/Book - released 27/Oct/2017 ] Why yet another Messiah? 'I went through the different scores that exist and decided on the very interesting 1754 version, which features five soloists. You must remember that, when Handel arrived somewhere to perform his oratorio, he had soloists of... |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier - Sacred Music, Volume 1: Messe des Morts / Litanies a la Vierge Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "(a) perfect example of how to take regligious music and turn it into an experience which even the most secular listener must enjoy ... The performance of the Messe des Morts is beautifully melodic and truly uplifting ... a masterpiece given dynamism... |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Sacred Choral Works Vol. 3 Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "The choir and instrumentalists of Le Concert Spiritual are on their usual lively form .... directed with stylistic assurance by Niquet." Gramophone Magazine |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Sacred Choral Works Vol. 4 Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "This is in every way a worthy successor to the earlier releases in the series." -- American Record Guide |
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Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet, conductor
Boismortier - Serenades francaises [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] 2002 Grammy Award Nomination |
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Le Concert Spirituel Herve Niquet, conductor
Lorenzani-Motets [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2002 ] "Lorenzani has introduced a French element, yet they were more typical of the Italian 'grand motet'." |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Sacred Choral Works Vol. 2: Vespres a la Vierge (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "Performances sound splendid to me...Another one to add to the buying list." - Classic CD - February 1996 |
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GEOFFROY
Music For Choir And Organ Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet (Organ And Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "It's remarkable to have such obscure repertoire, performed so admirably, at the price of this disc. The most important Geoffroy issue yet" - Fanfare |
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LULLY
Lully: The Grand Motets Vols. 1-3 Le Concert Spirtuel, Hervé Niquet [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Volume 1 The court of Louis XIV was a lively and musically thriving place, and Jean-Baptiste Lully, who actually was Italian (Giovanni Battista Lulli) but became a naturalized French citizen, was right in the middle of it. As director of one of the... |
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JEAN GILLES
Requiem & Diligam te, Domine Mellon, Gens, Crook, Hervé Lamy, Kooy / La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Herreweghe's 1990 performance was the first modern reading of Gilles' celebrated Requiem from manuscript |
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SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND
Oceano: Chamber Music by Sebastian Fagerlund Meta4 String Quartet / Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet), Paavali Jumppanen (piano), Hervé Joulain (horn) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "Yet his chamber music is no less compelling…By turns ferociously rhythmic, playful and softly luminous, every piece here shares a coherent dramatic arc." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted - Premiere |
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W. A. MOZART / ANTONIO SALIERI
Mozart & Salieri: Requiem Valentina Nafornita, Ambroisine Bre, Robin Tritschler, Andreas Wolf / Hervé Niquet; Le Concert Spirituel [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Two illustrious composers at odds with their Requiem? When, in 1791, a 36-year-old Mozart composed the one that would remain unfinished due to his death, he did so in response to a commission from the eccentric Count von Walsegg. Mozart would never... |
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NICOLAS CLERAMBAULT
Clerambault: Le Triomphe D'iris / Pastorale (1706) Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] "This is delightful, hearty music. Naxos has made another valuable addition to the recorded repertoire at a price that even the most penurious collector can afford." American Record Guide |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Phryné (complete opera) Orchestre de l'opéra de Rouen Normandie; Chœur du Concert Spirituel; Hervé Niquet [ Bru Zane / CD/Book - released 11/Feb/2022 ] "Florie Valiquette is a winning Phryné, and Cyrille Dubois all that you could hope for in a French tenor as her beloved Nicias - their Act II duet deserves to be much better known." BBC Music |