Nona di Beethoven al Festspielhaus di Baden‐Baden

Philippe Herreweghe is a Belgian conductor. He is principally known as a conductor of Johann Sebastian Bach, the German composer who wrote over one thousand works. He is regarded by leading Bach scholars today as a founding father of the baroque authentic practice, original instrument movement and one of record label Harmonia Mundi's most prolific recording artists, with over sixty albums to his name. His early training as a chorister and assistant choirmaster in a Jesuit school was complemented by piano studies at the Ghent Conservatory. At university Herreweghe studied psychiatry and formed a 12‐person choir devoted to the revolutionary performing practices of Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman and the Kuijken brothers.

L’Orchestre des Champs-Élysées si dedica all’esecuzione del repertorio classico e romantico, proponendo esecuzioni filologiche su strumenti d’epoca. Fondata nel 1991 da Philippe Herreweghe e da Alain Durel, direttore del Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, è stata orchestra residente presso lo stesso teatro parigino e al Palais des Beaux‐Arts di Bruxelles. Insieme a Herreweghe, suo direttore artistico e direttore principale, si è esibita nelle più prestigiose sedi concertistiche europee e ha percorso in tournée Cina, Giappone, Australia. Nel corso degli anni ha collaborato anche con direttori come Daniel Harding, Louis Langrée, Christophe Coin e recentemente con René Jacobs. Per l’etichetta Harmonia Mundi ha inciso il Requiem di Mozart e quello di Fauré, la Missa Solemnis di Beethoven, gli oratorî Paulus ed Elijah e le musiche di scena per Sogno di una notte di mezza estate di Mendelssohn, L’enfance du Christ e Les nuits d’été di Berlioz, Ein Deutsche Requiem di Brahms, la Settima e la Quarta Sinfonia di Bruckner.

Collegium Vocale Gent was founded in 1970 on the initiative of Philippe Herreweghe.

It was one of the first ensembles to use the then‐new ideas about baroque practice in vocal music performances. Musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman and Nikolaus Harnoncourt immediately took an interest in the Flemish ensemble’s fresh, new approach, which led to intensive collaboration.

In the mid‐1980s the ensemble acquired international fame and was invited to all the major concert halls and music festivals of Europe, Israel, the United States, Russian, South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.