Les Musiciens du Louvre – Grenoble

Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble was made by Marc Minkowski, its conductor, and after that the group continues to be ranked among the primary interpreters of Baroque music in European countries. The repertoire of les Musiciens du Louvre obviously reflects Minkowski’s likes: he provides championed music by Marais, Mouret, Charpentier, Lully, and Rameau, and is set to revive curiosity about Handel’s lesser-known operas. Playing period equipment and up to date by extensive analysis, les Musiciens du Louvre is definitely one of several ensembles wanting to re-create Baroque-era music because they believe it had been heard from the composers’ contemporaries. Sometimes, the group performs functions from other intervals. In 1984, Minkowski received First Prize in the 1st International Early Music Competition in Bruges. Urged by this achievement, he founded that same yr the period-instrument ensemble les Musiciens du Louvre. Acknowledgement arrived quickly and quickly these were asked take part in high-profile occasions. In 1992, they inaugurated the Baroque Event in Versailles having a revival of Gluck’s Armide, and in 1993 they participated in the state reopening from the Lyon Opera, carrying out Phaëlot by Lully. Their wide discography with Erato/Warner contains works such as for example Teseo by Handel, Les Amour de Ragonde by Mouret, the symphonie nouvelle, Les Éléments by Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), Handel’s Concerti Grossi, Op. 3, and Phaëlot by Lully. In 1993, these were granted the desired Gramophone Honor, “Greatest Baroque Vocal Documenting,” for his or her making of Alessandro Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista. In 1995, they performed Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in the Toronto Opera, the Houston Opera, the BBC Proms, as well as the Opéra Royal in Versailles. In 1990, the People from france Académie du Disque Lyrique granted Marc Minkowski the Orphée d’or for “Greatest Adolescent Conductor.” Minkowski still discovers time to utilize other ensembles, like the Welsh Country wide Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Opera, as well as the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. Since 1994, les Musiciens du Louvre possess recorded specifically for Archiv Produktion — Deutsche Grammophon; their 1st launch on that label was Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau’s 1st lyric tragedy. In addition they recorded Handel’s extremely early Oratorio per la Resurrezione di Nostro Signor Gesù Cristo, of 1708, Anacréon by Rameau and Acis et Galatée by Lully. Les Musiciens du Louvre founded their permanent home in Grenoble in 1996, becoming a member of forces using the Orchestre de Chambre de Grenoble. Through the pursuing periods, they performed and documented Gluck’s Armide, Handel’s Ariodante, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Rameau’s Dardanus, and Handel’s “Roman” motets. The initial soundtrack of Le Messie, a film by William Klein, premiered in 2000. In 1998/1999, they documented Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck, performed Rameau’s tough Platée on the Opéra Country wide de Paris with the Salzburger Pfingstfestspiele. In addition they provided their interpretation of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea on the Celebration worldwide d’Aix-en-Provence. The ensemble’s tour that calendar year took these to Ambronay, Lyon, Poissy, Caen, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Halle, Madrid, and Santiago di Compostela. In 1999/2000, they toured throughout European countries with Magdalena Kozená executing Handel’s “Italian” cantatas and Hercules, with Anne Sofie von Otter, aswell as J.S. Bach’s Orchestra Suites. In addition they provided a revival of L’incoronazione di Poppea on the Celebration international d’Aix-en-Provence as well as the Wiener Festwochen. The 2000/2001 period features productions of Offenbach’s La belle Hélène on the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Handel’s Ariodante on the Opéra Country wide de Paris with Anne-Sofie von Otter, and a revival of Platée in Geneva, Montpellier, Metz, Grenoble, and Bordeaux. Since 2005, the ensemble provides ventured into afterwards repertoire, executing functions by Berlioz, Bizet, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky.