Les Musiciens du Louvre

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Les Musiciens du Louvre perform at the 2020 Quincena Musical de San Sebastián

Les Musiciens du Louvre (literally The Musicians of the Louvre) is a French period instrument ensemble, formed in 1982. Originally based in Paris, since 1996 it has been based in the Couvent des Minimes in Grenoble. The Guardian considers it one of the best orchestras in the world.[1]

History

Marc Minkowski in 2013

Founded by

Gramophone Award for Best Baroque Vocal Recording for its recording of San Giovanni Battista by Stradella
. On its move to Grenoble in 1996 it merged with the Ensemble instrumental de Grenoble.

In 1999, the ensemble collaborated with photographer

Handel
's celebrated oratorio with accompanying photographs and filmed images shot or assembled by director.

In 2004, on the reopening of the

Maison de la Culture de Grenoble (renamed MC2) Les Musiciens du Louvre set up an 'atelier de création'. In 2005, they were the first French ensemble invited to play at the Salzburg Festival (Mitridate, re di Ponto
, reprised in the Mozart complete works festival in 2006).

In 2005, Marc Minkowski decided to set up the Atelier des musiciens du Louvre, a workshop aiming to increase partnership with regional artists and cultural figures and to increase public access to the orchestra's concerts via teaching and education projects, especially to the young.

Activities

Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble supports the renewal of Baroque music in France and more generally the use of period instruments and period style. The projet des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble proposes a progressive and lyrical re-evaluation, from baroque music to modern music, and programming certain works which have been neglected for unjustifiable or obscure reasons. This project makes the ensemble one of the most evolved, inventive and original music groups in the world.

External videos
video icon Danse des Sauvages from Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau on
YouTube

It is also well known for its rediscovery of works by

Stravinski
.

Opera quickly took a major role in the orchestra's repertoire right from its foundation – they have won critical acclaim for their productions of

Théâtre des Champs Elysées
. It has also toured in Eastern Europe, Asia, North America, South America and (in 2009) to Japan.

Discography

  • Handel: Alcina (2024, PENTATONE)
  • Lully (Phaëton, Acis & Galatée, les Comédies-Ballets)
  • Charpentier (Le Malade imaginaire, Te Deum)
  • Marais (Alcione)
  • Blamont (Didon)
  • Clérambault (Le Soleil vainqueur des Nuages)
  • Mouret (Les Amours de Ragonde)
  • Stuck (Héraclite & Démocrite)
  • Rebel (Les Élémens)
  • Rameau (Hippolyte & Aricie, Platée, Dardanus, Les surprises de l'Amour [suites], Anacréon, Le Berger fidèle, Une symphonie imaginaire)
  • Mondonville (Titon & l'Aurore, Sonates en symphonies)
  • Gluck (Armide, Iphigénie en Tauride, Orphée et Eurydice)
  • Méhul (Symphonies n° 1 and 2)
  • Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique and Herminie with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Aurélia Legay)
  • Offenbach (La Belle Hélène, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Concerto for cello and other instruments, gala with Anne Sofie von Otter, Orphée aux Enfers, A Concert of Music by Offenbach)
  • Handel (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, La resurrezione, Messiah, Hercules, Amadigi, Teseo, Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Concerti Grossi opus 3, Dixit Dominus et motets romains, Delirio amoroso and cantatas with Magdalena Kožená, French cantatas, Haendel Scarlatti Caldara Opera Proibita with Cécilia Bartoli)
  • Mozart (Mitridate [DVD], Die Entführung aus dem Serail [DVD], Don Giovanni [arrangement for wind octet by Triebensee], Jupiter, Mass in C Minor)
  • Monteverdi (L'incoronazione di Poppea [DVD])
  • Stradella (San Giovanni Battista)
  • Rossini (L'inganno felice [under the name Concert des Tuileries])
  • Bizet (L'Arlésienne)
  • Bach (Messe en Si)
  • Schubert Complete Symphonies (Minkowski, Naïve)

References

  1. ^ Tim Ashley, Prom 22, 'The Guardian', Tuesday 31 July 2007.

External links

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