La Chapelle Royale
La Chapelle Royale is a French ensemble of baroque music.
History
La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. It takes its name from the Chapelle royale of the French kings.The initial vocation of the ensemble was to interpret the great French repertoire of the 17th century but, since 1985, Herreweghe associated it more and more with his own Belgian ensemble, the Collegium Vocale Gent.
Next to La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe also founded the "Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale".
La Chapelle Royale was, during the 1980s, together with Les Arts Florissants, one of the pillars of the musical revolution known in France and Belgium under the name of "Baroqueux", initiated during the 1970s by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt.
Recordings
Source:La Chapelle Royale
- 1981 : Motets pour la Chapelle du roy, Henry Du Mont
- 1984 : Les Indes galantes, Jean-Philippe Rameau
- 1985 : Grands Motets, Jean-Baptiste Lully
- 1985 : Motet Pour l'Offertoire de la Messe Rouge et Miserere H.219, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- 1986 : Motets, Josquin des Prez
- 1987 : Musikalische Exequien, Heinrich Schütz
- 1987 : Requiem, André Campra
- 1988 : Messe de Requiem op.48 - orchestration originale, Gabriel Fauré et Messe des Pêcheurs de Villerville, Gabriel Fauré / André Messager
- 1990 : Requiem, Jean Gilles
- 1991 : Cantates pour basse BWV 82, 56 et 128, Johann Sebastian Bach
La Chapelle Royale with Collegium Vocale Gent
- 1983 : Motets, Johannes Brahms
- 1984 : Motets & Psalms, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- 1985 : Matthäus Passion BWV 244, Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1986 : Grand Motets, Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1987 : Vespro della Beata Vergina, Claudio Monteverdi
- 1988 : Johannes Passion BWV 245, Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1990 : Cantate Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats BWV 42, Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1990 : Magnificat BWV 243, Johann Sebastian Bach
La Chapelle Royale with Collegium Vocale Gent and Orchestre des Champs Elysées
- 1992 : Große Messe in c-Moll, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1993 : Elias, Felix Mendelssohn
- 1994 : Ein Sommernachtstraum, Die Hebriden, Felix Mendelssohn
- 1995 : Missa solemnis, Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1996 : Paulus, Felix Mendelssohn
- 1996 : Ein deutsches Requiem op.45, Johannes Brahms
- 1997 : L'enfance du Christ, Hector Berlioz
- 1998 : Szenen aus Goethes Faust, Robert Schumann
Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale
- 1989 : Les Lamentations de Jérémie, Roland de Lassus
- 1992 : Missa Viri Galilei, Palestrina