William Christie
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Biography
Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie was born in Buffalo, New York, on December 19, 1944, and is renowned for restoring the French Baroque repertoire to its former glory. At the helm of Les Arts Florissants since 1979, the French-born Harvard and Yale graduate has exhumed or renovated works by Charpentier, Rameau and Lully, as well as the Bach family and Mozart, Handel and Purcell. Since his landmark performance of Lully's opera Atys in 1987, the Franco-American conductor has won acclaim at major festivals (Zürich, Glyndebourne) and led orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic. An Academician of Fine Arts, William Christie is also involved in training young singers with Le Jardin des Voix and in a heritage project with his Jardins de Thiré, in the Vendée. The compilation Le Baroque Français, released in 2016, brings together his greatest interpretations. In 2024, the year of his eightieth birthday, The Complete Erato Recordings and Bill & Friends, a recital featuring his close friends Justin Taylor, Thomas Dunford, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Gwendoline Blondeel, Juliette Mey, Myriam Rignol and Emmanuel Resche-Caserta, will be released.
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- Domine, ne in furore: VII. Turbatus est a furore featuring Paul Agnew
- Domine, ne in furore: VIII. Discedite a me omnes featuring Paul Agnew
- In nativitatem Domini canticum, H. 416: V. ChÅur des bergers. "CÅli aperti sunt" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: Chorus. "Queen of Summer" (Heathens)
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: "Return, Septimius" (Valens)
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: Air. "Wide spread his name" (Valens)
- In nativitatem Domini canticum, H. 416: IV. Réveil des bergers featuring Les Arts Florissants
- Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: Symphony I
- In nativitatem Domini canticum, H. 416: III. Nuit featuring Les Arts Florissants
- Charpentier : In nativitatem Domini canticum H416 : II "Memorare testamenti" by Les Arts Florissants
- Charpentier : In nativitatem Domini canticum H416 : I "Usquequo avertis faciem tuam" by Les Arts Florissants
- In convertendo: VII. Euntes ibant et flebant featuring Les Arts Florissants
- In convertendo: VI. Qui seminant in lacrimis featuring Les Arts Florissants
- In convertendo: V. Laudate nomen Dei cum cantico featuring Les Arts Florissants
- Charpentier : Amor vince ogni cosa : "Soccorso, Dei, soccorso!" [Eurilla, Filli, Pan] by Les Arts Florissants
- Peaceful is he and most secure
- Alcina, HWV 34, Act 3: Aria. "Mi restano le lagrime" (Alcina) featuring Renée Fleming
- Sonata in A Op. 1 No. 10 (HWV 372): III. Adagio by Hiro Kurosaki
- Sonata in A Op. 1 No. 3 (HWV 372): I. Larghetto by Hiro Kurosaki
- Salvator mundi featuring William Christie
- Since God so tender a regard featuring William Christie
- Jehovah quam multi sunt featuring William Christie
- In the midst of Life featuring William Christie
- Sonata in G (HWV 358) by William Christie
