Il 5 ottobre saremo presso il teatro filarmonico di Verona per un evento veramente speciale.
Infatti si esibira' un'orchestra di primaria importanza europea e mondiale grazie anche alla fama del suo direttore Philippe Herreweghe famoso per l'approcio romantico e profondo con il repertorio in cui si cimenta.
Philippe Herreweghe was born in Ghent. He studied piano at the local Conservatory before going on to study medicine and psychiatry, graduating in 1975. It was during his time at university that he founded the Collegium Vocale and it was then that he caught the attention of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt. They subsequently invited him to join them in their recording of the complete Cantatas of Bach.
In an endeavour to do adequate justice to a repertory ranging from the Renaissance to modern and contemporary music, Philippe Herreweghe felt the need to create several ensembles of variable composition with whom he has made nearly sixty recordings for harmonia mundi: l’Ensemble Vocal Européen, Collegium Vocale Gent (Bach and his forerunners), la Chapelle Royale (French Baroque music), the Orchestre des ChampsElysées (Classical and Romantic music) and the ensemble Musique Oblique.
Philippe Herreweghe has appeared as guest conductor of ensembles like the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra, of whom he is the musical director sine 1997. He also conducted the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras.
He was the Artistic Director of the Saintes Festival from 1982 to 2002. He was named Musical Personality of the Year in 1990, European Musician of the Year in 1991, Cultural Ambassador of Flanders with his Collegium Vocale in 1993. Philippe Herreweghe was awarded the order of Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1994, and named Doctor Honoris Causa of Louvain University in 1997. In 2003 he was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, and in October of that same year he was knighted by the King of the Belgians.
The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées is devoted to the performance of music written from the mid XVIII to the early XX centuries (Haydn-Mahler) played on the instruments that existed during the composer's lifetime.
For several years, the Orchestra has been in residence at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and has performed in almost all the major European concert halls such as the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Barbican Centre (London), Alter Oper (Frankfurt), the Philharmonic Halls in Berlin and Munich, the Gewandhaus (Leipzig), the Lincoln Center (New York), Parco della Musica (Rome) and the Auditoriums of Dijon and Lucerne. The orchestra has also toured Japan, Korea, China and Australia.
Philippe Herreweghe is the artistic director and principal conductor, but several guest conductors conducts the orchestra, among them Daniel Harding, Louis Langrée, Christophe Coin, Bruno Weil and it will soon work with René Jacobs.
The Orchestra's extensive discography includes : Mozart Requiem, Mass in C minor – Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Ninth Symphony – Brahms German Requiem – Mendelssohn Elijah, Paulus, Midsummer Night's Dream – Schumann Scenes From Faust, Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto – Berlioz Enfance du Christ, Nuits d'Eté – Fauré Requiem / Bruckner Seventh Symphony, Fourth Symphony (april 2006) – (harmonia mundi recordings)
The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées is funded by the French Ministry of Culture and the government of the Poitou-Charentes region.
Discografia Essenziale
Mozart, Requiem, Collegium Vocale and La Chapelle Royale, Harmonia Mundi, 1997
Bach, Magnificat, La Chapelle Royale, Harmonia Mundi, 1999
Bach, Matthäus-Passion (St Matthew Passion), Collegium Vocale, Harmonia Mundi, 1999
Rameau, Les Indes Galantes, La Chapelle Royale, Musique d'Abord, 2000
Bach, St. John Passion, Collegium Vocale, Harmonia Mundi, 2003
Beethoven, Symphony no. 9, Harmonia Mundi, 2003
Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem
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