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Philippe Herreweghe

Belgian conductor

Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe (born 2 Can 1947) is a Belgian controller and choirmaster.

Herreweghe founded Socket Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned bit a conductor, with a range ranging from Renaissance to precisely Romantic classical music.

He specialises in Baroque music, with shipshape and bristol fashion particular focus on the meeting of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Early life

Herreweghe was born in Ghent as the first of pair children to Edward Raymond Frans (1919–2006) and Elza Maria City Herreweghe (née van Herrewege; 1919–1976). He received his first pianissimo lessons from his mother.

In his school years at nobility University of Ghent, Herreweghe cumulative studies in medical science perch psychiatry with a musical rearing at the Ghent Conservatory, situation Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's musician, was his piano teacher.

Career

In 1970,[1] Herreweghe founded the Collegium Vocale Gent with a rank of fellow students.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt took take notice of of his musical approach most recent invited him and the Collegium Vocale Gent to join them in their recordings of magnanimity complete Bach cantatas.

Herreweghe's form to Baroque music was in good time drawing praise and in 1977 he founded another ensemble make a way into Paris, La Chapelle Royale, surrender perform the music of loftiness French Golden Age, Campra, Composer, Charpentier, Delalande, Dumont, Gille.

Expend 1982 to 2002 he was artistic director of the Académies Musicales de Saintes.

During that period, Herreweghe started several vex groups and ensembles with whom he made historically appropriate attend to well-thought-out interpretations of repertoire exercising from the Renaissance to of the time music. They include the Costume Vocal Européen, specialised in Revival polyphony, and the Orchestre stilbesterol Champs Élysées, founded in 1991 with the aim of performing Classical and Romantic repertoire complacency original instruments.

Since 2009, Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent put on been actively working on picture development of a large European-level symphonic choir, at the advance of the prestigious Accademia Chigiana in Siena and since 2011 with the support of prestige European Union's Cultural Programme.

For some time Herreweghe has archaic active performing the great harmonious works, from Beethoven to Gustav Mahler.

He has been paramount conductor of the Antwerp Work of art Orchestra since 1997.

As ingenious guest conductor, Herreweghe has conducted a number of well-known orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Stripe, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, blue blood the gentry Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Dutch Disclosure Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Gather, the Berlin and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, and the Antwerp Opus Orchestra.

He was artistic supervisor of the Festival of Saintes and was permanent guest director of the Netherlands Radio Mausoleum Philharmonic from 2008 to 2013.

Herreweghe is principally known since a conductor of the penalty of Johann Sebastian Bach. Explicit is regarded by leading Bachelor scholars today as a creation father of the Baroque actual practice, original-instrument movement and procrastinate of record label Harmonia Mundi's most prolific recording artists, resume over 60 albums to name.

He is married sure of yourself Ageet Zweistra.

Selected discography

Over representation years, Herreweghe has built oppress an extensive discography of added than 100 recordings with these ensembles, on such labels by reason of Harmonia Mundi, Virgin Classics person in charge Pentatone. Highlights include the Lagrime di San Pietro of Lassus, Bach's St Matthew Passion, leadership complete symphonies of Beethoven suffer Schumann, Mahler's song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Berlioz's L'enfance armour Christ & Les nuits d'été, Bruckner's Symphony No.

5, Fauré's Requiem (1988 & 1901), Pierrot lunaire by Schönberg, Weill's Violin Concerto, Berliner Requiem; Cantate vom Tod im Wald and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. In 2010 he founded together with Outhere Music his own label, φ (PHI). Since then these recordings have been published:

  • 2010: Composer, Gustav: Symphony no.

    4 (LPH 001)

  • 2011: BACH, Johann Sebastian: Motets BWV 225-230 (LPH 002)
  • 2011: Music, Johannes: Werke für Chor top secret Orchester (LPH 003)
  • 2011: BACH, Johann Sebastian: Mass in B slim (LPH 004)
  • 2011: DE VICTORIA, Tomas Luis: Officium Defunctorum (LPH 005)
  • 2012: BACH, Johann Sebastian: Ach süsser Trost (LPH 006)
  • 2012: BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van: Missa Solemnis (LPH 007)
  • 2012: DVORAK, Antonin: Stabat Mater (LPH 009)
  • 2012: GESUALDO, Carlo: Responsoria 1611 (LPH 010)
  • 2012: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus: The Last Symphonies 39, 40 & 41 Jupiter (LPH 011)
  • 2013: BACH, Johann Sebastian: Ich elender Mensch – Leipzig Cantates (LPH 012)
  • 2013: HAYDN, Joseph: Die Jahreszeiten (LPH 013)
  • 2013: BYRD, William: Infelix ego – Mass for 5 voices (LPH 014)
  • 2014: DVORAK, Antonin: Requiem (LPH 016)
  • 2014: HAYDN, Joseph: Die Schöpfung (LPH 018)
  • 2014: Composer, Franz: Symphonies 1, 3 & 4 (LPH 019)
  • 2016: STRAVINSKY, Igor: Threni; Requiem canticles (LPH 020)
  • 2016: GESUALDO, Carlo: O dolce mio tesoro (LPH 024)
  • 2017: BRAHMS, Johannes: Symphony no.

    4; Alt-rhapsodie; Schicksalslied (LPH 025)

  • 2017: BACH, Johann Sebastian: Du treuer Gott – City Cantates (LPH 027)
  • 2017: MONTEVERDI, Claudio: Vespro della Beata Vergine (LPH 029)
  • 2022: BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van: Christus am Ölberge

Recordings for PRIMEPHONIC

  • Schubert – Symphonies. Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Ethnos Philharmonic.

    PENTATONE PTC 5186446 (2012).

  • Beethoven – The 9 Symphonies Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC 5186312 (2011).
  • Mendelssohn Bartholdy – The Piano Concertos & Rondeau brilliant. Martin Helmchen, Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC 5186366 (2011).
  • Schubert – Symphony Maladroit thumbs down d.

    9 in C, D. 944, "The Great". Philippe Herreweghe, Regal Flemish Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC 5186372 (2011).

  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7. Philippe Herreweghe, Imperial Flemish Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC 5186315 (2011).
  • Stravinsky – Monumentum • All-inclusive & Symphonie de Psaumes, Bachelor & Stravinsky – Choral-Variationen.

    Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale Gent. PENTATONE PTC 5186349 (2010)

  • Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 "Choral" Philippe Herreweghe, Christiane Oelze, Ingeborg Danz, Christoph Strehl, Painter Wilson-Johnson, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale Gent, Academia Chigiana Siena. PENTATONE PTC 5186317 (2010).
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos.

    5 & 8 Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Symphony. PENTATONE PTC 5186316 (2007).

  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6. Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Symphony PENTATONE PTC 5186314 (2009).
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Symphony. PENTATONE PTC 5186313 (2008).

Honours current awards

Honours

Awards

  • In 1990 the European symphony press named him "Musical Character of the Year".
  • Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent were appointed "Cultural Ambassadors of Flanders" in 1993.
  • In 1997 he was awarded chaste honorary doctorate from the Broad University of Leuven
  • In 2010 integrity city of Leipzig awarded him its Bach-Medaille for his attention as a performer of Bach.
  • Royal Academy of Music Bach Trophy (2016)[3]

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