Le Concert Spirituel
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Le Concert Spirituel is a French ensemble performing Baroque music on period instruments. Founded in 1987 by conductor Hervé Niquet, it takes its name from the 18th-century concert society Concert Spirituel, which ceased operations during the French Revolution. Performing instrumental, choral and operatic music, with a repertoire focused on the music played at the court of Versailles, the ensemble collaborates with the Centre de musique baroque for the most accurate transcriptions, based on original scores and documents from the archives. While Le Concert Spirituel's repertoire has given pride of place to works by Lully, Charpentier, Campra and Rameau, revealing previously unpublished or forgotten compositions, it has also brought to light many lesser-known composers such as Geoffroy, Boismortier, Destouches, Quinault, Clérambault, Desmarest and others. He has also extended it to Handel, Purcell, Gluck, Mozart, Salieri, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Striggio, as well as to 19th and 20th century composers such as Saint-Saëns, Lecocq, Messager, Cherubini, Grétry, Berlioz, Reynaldo Hahn, Fauré and Gounod. Since its inception, Le Concert Spirituel has given numerous concerts, toured extensively and won worldwide acclaim for its recordings (nearly a hundred), including the Grands Motets by Rameau and Lully, the Messe des morts, the Te Deum, Charpentier's Motets and Leçons de Ténèbres, Rameau's opera Pigmalion (1999), Boismortier's Daphnis et Chloé (2002), Campra's Requiem (2002), Purcell's Didon and Aeneas (2001) and King Arthur (2004), Marais' Sémélé (2007), Lully's Proserpine (2009), Vivaldi's Gloria & Magnificat ( 2008), Vivaldi's Messe des morts and Te Deum (2008) and Lully's Leçons de Ténèbres (2009). Magnificat (2015), Lully's Persée 1770 (2017) and Armide 1778 (2020), Handel's Messiah 1754 (2017), Berlioz's Messe solenelle (2019), Requiem pour Louis XIV (2020), Mozart's The Magic Flute (2021), Saint-Saëns' Phryné (2022), Handel's Coronation Anthems (2022), Salieri and Mozart's Requiems (2022), Charpentier's Médée (2024), Desmarest and Campra's Iphigénie en Tauride (2025) and Handel's Israel in Egypt (2025).
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- Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei by Le Concert Spirituel
- Sanctus by Le Concert Spirituel
- Le Temple de la Gloire: Air Gay by Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion, Scène IV: Les Grâces instruisent la Statue
- Pigmalion, Scène V: Pigmalion: Règne, Amour by Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion: Ouverture
- Pigmalion, Scène III: Pigmalion : Que d`appas! by Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion, Scène IV: Tambourin ... Choeurdes peuples: Cédons, cédons à notre impatience
- Pigmalion, Scène V: Pigmalion/Choeur: L`Amour triomphe by Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion, Scène III: La Statue s`anime - Pigmalion : Quel prodige! featuring Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion, Scène IV: L'Amour : Du pouvoir de l`Amour featuring Hervé Niquet
- Le Temple de la Gloire: Trajan : Ces oiseaux par leur doux ramage by Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion, Scene première: Pigmalion : Fatal amour by Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion, Scène V: Pantomme - Deuxième pantomime featuring Hervé Niquet
- Pigmalion, Scène V: Air gracieux - Ballet général
- Rameau: Deus noster refugium: No. 1, Air, "Deus noster refugium"
- Rameau: Quam dilecta tabernacula: No. 1, Air. "Quam dilecta tabernacula tua"
- Rameau: Deus noster refugium: No. 9, Duo. "Arcum conteret et confringet arma"
- Le Triomphe d'Iris (the Triumph of Iris), Entree III Scene 4: Deuxieme passepied
- Le Triomphe d'Iris (the Triumph of Iris), Entree III Scene 4: Premier passepied pour les bergers et les bergeres
- Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: I. Overture: Allegro
- Le Triomphe d'Iris (the Triumph of Iris), Entree I Scene 1: Air - Silvandre
- Le Triomphe d'Iris (the Triumph of Iris), Entree I Scene 1: Trio puis choeur
- Le Triomphe d'Iris (Pastorale): Entree I: Overture
