Le Concert des Nations

Acquiring its name from a 1726 group of trio sonatas by François Couperin, Le Live concert des Nations is definitely a period-instrument orchestra of young musicians from mostly Latin countries, standing up as opposed to the proliferation of period tool ensembles in Northern Europe and England. The orchestra was founded in 1989 by gambist Jordi Savall, who’s also the group’s conductor. The orchestra offers recorded a assorted repertoire spanning the 17th to 19th generations. Its 1st recordings presented Charpentier’s Canticum advertisement Beatam Virginem Mariam, Bach’s orchestral suites and Brandenburg Concertos, and Haydn’s Seven Last Terms of Christ within the Mix. Its operatic repertoire contains Martín con Soler’s Una cosa rara and Il burbero di buon cuore and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Beneath the baton of Savall, Le Concert des Countries has explored past due 18th and early 19th hundred years music, such as for example Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony. Its documenting of Handel’s Drinking water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks was honored an RTL award in 1994. The orchestra’s concerts and recordings possess taken to light many even more obscure composers, including Spaniard JC Arriaga. Le Concert des Countries may be the orchestra of La Capella Reial de Catalunya and it is sponsored by the federal government of Catalonia. Afterwards recordings consist of Vivaldi: Farnace (2009), La Barcha d’Amore (2009), and Le Concert Spirituel: Au temps de Louis XV (2010).