Les Agrémens

Les Agrémens is a favorite Belgian chamber orchestra largely specialized in works through the Baroque and Classical intervals. People perform on period musical instruments even though the score demands such antiquated and generally forgotten musical instruments as the crumhorn. The ensemble typically includes around 20 people, though the amount can range between 10 roughly for smaller-scale functions, on up to 30 or even more for the bigger ones, such as for example Classical-era symphonies and choral functions. Les Agrémens provides often performed using the Namur Chamber Choir, that will be seen as a type of sibling-ensemble, since both had been founded by, and serve under aegis of the guts for Choral Performing from the French-speaking Community of Belgium and both are located in Namur, Belgium. Les Agrémens provides hence performed many choral functions, particularly through the Baroque period (Handel’s Messiah, J.S. Bach’s Xmas Cantatas, Charpentier’s Te Deum, H. 416, and Pachelbel’s Christ lag in Todesbanden, to mention only a handful). Furthermore, it has frequently performed very much orchestral music from your Classical period, including symphonies of Haydn, Gossec, Mozart, J.C. Bach, and many more. Les Agrémens’ recordings can be found from Ricecar and Armide France. Founded in 1995, Les Agrémens was intended to accompany the Namur Chamber Choir. Although it still acts that purpose, they have taken on another musical existence of its, performing purely instrumental concerts and showing up on nonvocal recordings. The ensemble’s name derives from your music of Francois Couperin: the 1st publication of Couperin’s Pièces de clavecin consists of a function entitled Les Agrémens (ornamentation) — No. 19 from the Cinquieme Ordre. The 1st concerts by Les Agrémens had been played beneath the baton of experienced Luxemburg-born conductor Pierre Cao in Dec 1995 and presented functions by Handel. Those preliminary shows, including one broadcast over Belgian tv, drew highly beneficial response from both critics and general public alike. From the turn from the hundred years, Les Agrémens was sketching consistently positive see across Europe. Man Vehicle Wass was appointed primary conductor in 2001 and quickly made his 1st recording using the ensemble, an acclaimed Ricercar Compact disc of three symphonies by Gossec as well as the B smooth Clarinet Concerto by J.V. Stamitz. The ensemble offers since produced in stature as crucial plaudits accrue and demand for recordings develops. Among the ensemble’s later on recordings is usually a 2009 Ricecar Compact disc made up of Haydn’s Symphonies No. 45 no. 85 as well as the Symphony in D main by Joseph Martin Kraus.