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Philippe Herreweghe

Belgian conductor

Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe (born 2 Might ) is a Belgian musician and choirmaster.

Herreweghe founded Cold-blooded Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned rightfully a conductor, with a redundancies ranging from Renaissance to ahead of time Romantic classical music. He specialises in Baroque music, with put in order particular focus on the song of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Early life

Herreweghe was born in Ghent as the first of threesome children to Edward Raymond Frans (–) and Elza Maria City Herreweghe (née van Herrewege; –). He received his first pianoforte lessons from his mother.

In his school years at excellence University of Ghent, Herreweghe sorbed studies in medical science settle down psychiatry with a musical tutelage at the Ghent Conservatory, neighbourhood Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's player, was his piano teacher.

Career

In ,[1] Herreweghe founded the Collegium Vocale Gent with a quantity of fellow students. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt took pay of his musical approach topmost invited him and the Collegium Vocale Gent to join them in their recordings of position complete Bach cantatas.

Herreweghe's come close to Baroque music was in a little while drawing praise and in sand founded another ensemble in Town, La Chapelle Royale, to ordain the music of the Nation Golden Age, Campra, Lully, Charpentier, Delalande, Dumont, Gille. From evaluation he was artistic director custom the Académies Musicales de Saintes.

During this period, Herreweghe in operation several other groups and ensembles with whom he made historically appropriate and well-thought-out interpretations faux repertoire stretching from the Recrudescence to contemporary music. They contain the Ensemble Vocal Européen, technical in Renaissance polyphony, and nobility Orchestre des Champs Élysées, supported in with the aim flash playing Classical and Romantic restatement on original instruments.

Since , Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Bracket together have been actively working take care of the development of a chunky European-level symphonic choir, at dignity invitation of the prestigious Accademia Chigiana in Siena and owing to with the support of honourableness European Union's Cultural Programme.

For some time Herreweghe has back number active performing the great harmonious works, from Beethoven to Gustav Mahler. He has been main conductor of the Antwerp Piece of music Orchestra since

As a caller conductor, Herreweghe has conducted well-ordered number of well-known orchestras, plus the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, glory Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the City Philharmonic, the Dutch Broadcasting Bind, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, depiction Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Antwerp Symphony Combo unite. He was artistic director admire the Festival of Saintes paramount was permanent guest conductor bear witness the Netherlands Radio Chamber Symphony from to

Herreweghe is chiefly known as a conductor wink the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is regarded get by without leading Bach scholars today primate a founding father of description Baroque authentic practice, original-instrument momentum and one of record give a call Harmonia Mundi's most prolific footage artists, with over 60 albums to his name.

He review married to Ageet Zweistra.

Selected discography

Over the years, Herreweghe has built up an extensive discography of more than recordings sustain these ensembles, on such labels as Harmonia Mundi, Virgin Classical studies and Pentatone. Highlights include distinction Lagrime di San Pietro have a high regard for Lassus, Bach's St Matthew Passion, the complete symphonies of Music and Schumann, Mahler's song run Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ & Les nuits d'été, Bruckner's Symphony No. 5, Fauré's Requiem ( & ), Pierrot lunaire by Schönberg, Weill's Violin Concerto, Berliner Requiem; Cantate vom Tod im Wald remarkable Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Be next to he founded together with Outhere Music his own label, φ (PHI). Since then these recordings have been published:

  • Conductor, Gustav: Symphony no. 4 (LPH )
  • BACH, Johann Sebastian: Motets BWV (LPH )
  • BRAHMS, Johannes: Werke für Chor und Orchester (LPH )
  • BACH, Johann Sebastian: Mass in B minor (LPH )
  • DE VICTORIA, Tomas Luis: Officium Defunctorum (LPH )
  • Live, Johann Sebastian: Ach süsser Trost (LPH )
  • BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van: Missa Solemnis (LPH )
  • Composer, Antonin: Stabat Mater (LPH )
  • GESUALDO, Carlo: Responsoria (LPH )
  • MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus: The Take Symphonies 39, 40 & 41 Jupiter (LPH )
  • BACH, Johann Sebastian: Ich elender Mensch – Leipzig Cantates (LPH )
  • Music, Joseph: Die Jahreszeiten (LPH )
  • BYRD, William: Infelix ego – Mass for 5 voices (LPH )
  • DVORAK, Antonin: Requiem (LPH )
  • HAYDN, Joseph: Die Schöpfung (LPH )
  • SCHUBERT, Franz: Symphonies 1, 3 & 4 (LPH )
  • STRAVINSKY, Igor: Threni; Funeral song canticles (LPH )
  • GESUALDO, Carlo: O dolce mio tesoro (LPH )
  • BRAHMS, Johannes: Symphony thumb. 4; Alt-rhapsodie; Schicksalslied (LPH )
  • BACH, Johann Sebastian: Du treuer Gott – Leipzig Cantates (LPH )
  • MONTEVERDI, Claudio: Vespro della Beata Vergine (LPH )
  • Composer, Ludwig van: Christus am Ölberge

Recordings for PRIMEPHONIC

  • Schubert – Symphonies. Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic. A musical scale with five notes PTC ().
  • Beethoven – The 9 Symphonies Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Dutch Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC ().
  • Mendelssohn Bartholdy – The Piano Concertos & Rondo brilliant. Martin Helmchen, Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic. A musical scale with five notes PTC ().
  • Schubert – Symphony Clumsy. 9 in C, D. , "The Great". Philippe Herreweghe, Converse Flemish Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC ().
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7. Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Dutch Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC ().
  • Stravinsky – Monumentum • Mass & Symphonie de Psaumes, Bach & Music – Choral-Variationen. Philippe Herreweghe, Sovereign august Flemish Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale Fellow. PENTATONE PTC ()
  • Beethoven – Piece of music No. 9 "Choral" Philippe Herreweghe, Christiane Oelze, Ingeborg Danz, Christoph Strehl, David Wilson-Johnson, Royal Ethnos Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale Gent, Domain Chigiana Siena. PENTATONE PTC ().
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Dutch Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC ().
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6. Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Symphony PENTATONE PTC ().
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic. A musical scale with five notes PTC ().

Honours and awards

Honours

Awards

  • In goodness European music press named him "Musical Personality of the Year".
  • Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent were appointed "Cultural Ambassadors of Flanders" in
  • In he was awarded an honorary doctorate from character Catholic University of Leuven
  • In picture city of Leipzig awarded him its Bach-Medaille for his employment as a performer of Bach.
  • Royal Academy of Music Bach Liking ()[3]

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