CHARPENTIER
Missa Assumpta Est Maria Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "…is musically and interpretatively satisfying. Le Concert Spirituel possess a fluency which complements the graceful eloquence of Charpentier's style." BBC Music Magazine, June 2009 **** |
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 |
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 |
CHARPENTIER
Te Deum / Dixit Dominus / etc Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "even for those who have a Te Deum or two in their collection, Niquet's reading of it is another…as limpid and lithe a performance of the piece as you are likely to hear. Good recorded sound and balance make this a disc to have." Gramophone Magazine,... |
Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet, conductor
Boismortier - Serenades francaises [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] 2002 Grammy Award Nomination |
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'." |
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 |
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 |
DESMAREST
Grands Motets Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Proserpine (complete) Salome Haller, Benedicte Tauran, Stephanie d'Oustrac / Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] |
ANDRE CAMPRA
La Carnaval de Venise (complete opera) Salome Haller / Marina De Liso / Andrew Foster-Williams / Alain Buet / Mathias Vidal / Sarah Tynan / Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] With this Carnaval de Venise Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet add a new title to their tireless work of recovering operatic jewels from those prodigious 17th and 18th centuries, amongst which we can mention here Proserpine by Lully, Sémélé by... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah Sandrine Piau, Anthea Pichanick, Božidar Smiljanić, Krešimir Špicer Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / DVD - released 17/Jan/2020 ] Filmed in decembre 2018 at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles. |
DEBUSSY / ROUSSEL / GODARD / CAPLET / etc
Une Flute Invisible: French Music at the Dawn of the 20th Century Sandrine Piau (soprano) Herve Lamy (tenor) Gilles de TalhouAt (flute) Arthur Schoonderwoerd (piano) [ Alpha / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] MARBECKS STAFF SURPRISE DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR 2006 - A program of French song from the early years of the 20th century focussing on Debussy and his contemporaries. |
FROMENTAL HALEVY
Halevy: La Reine de Chypre [The Queen of Cyprus] Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Étienne Dupuis / Flemish Radio Choir & Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 20/Sep/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2019 WINNER - Opera |