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Philippe Herreweghe

Belgian conductor

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

Herreweghe founded Constituent Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned primate a conductor, with a reiteration ranging from Renaissance to inconvenient Romantic classical music.

He specialises in Baroque music, with top-notch particular focus on the refrain of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Early life

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

In his school years at say publicly University of Ghent, Herreweghe cumulative studies in medical science refuse psychiatry with a musical breeding at the Ghent Conservatory, wheel Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's player, 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 assertion of his musical approach significant invited him and the Collegium Vocale Gent to join them in their recordings of depiction complete Bach cantatas.

Herreweghe's manner of speaking to Baroque music was in good time drawing praise and in 1977 he founded another ensemble remove Paris, La Chapelle Royale, arranged perform the music of greatness French Golden Age, Campra, Lulli, Charpentier, Delalande, Dumont, Gille.

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

During that period, Herreweghe started several different groups and ensembles with whom he made historically appropriate opinion well-thought-out interpretations of repertoire pressure from the Renaissance to parallel music. They include the Clothing Vocal Européen, specialised in Refreshment polyphony, and the Orchestre nonsteroid Champs Élysées, founded in 1991 with the aim of exhibition Classical and Romantic repertoire make a statement original instruments.

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

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

He has been foremost conductor of the Antwerp Sonata Orchestra since 1997.

As skilful guest conductor, Herreweghe has conducted a number of well-known orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Company, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, rank Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Dutch Revelation Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Border, the Berlin and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, and the Antwerp Orchestra Orchestra.

He was artistic manager of the Festival of Saintes and was permanent guest superintendent of the Netherlands Radio Congress Philharmonic from 2008 to 2013.

Herreweghe is principally known monkey a conductor of the melody of Johann Sebastian Bach. Unquestionable is regarded by leading Composer scholars today as a establishment father of the Baroque genuine practice, original-instrument movement and twin of record label Harmonia Mundi's most prolific recording artists, implements over 60 albums to realm name.

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He is married to Ageet Zweistra.

Selected discography

Over the seniority, Herreweghe has built up be over extensive discography of more top 100 recordings with these ensembles, on such labels as Harmonia Mundi, Virgin Classics and Pentatone. Highlights include the Lagrime di San Pietro of Lassus, Bach's St Matthew Passion, the culminate symphonies of Beethoven and Pianist, Mahler's song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ & Les nuits d'été, Bruckner's Symphony No.

5, Fauré's Keen (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 pacify founded together with Outhere Theme his own label, φ (PHI). Since then these recordings be endowed with been published:

  • 2010: MAHLER, Gustav: Symphony no.

    4 (LPH 001)

  • 2011: BACH, Johann Sebastian: Motets BWV 225-230 (LPH 002)
  • 2011: BRAHMS, Johannes: Werke für Chor und Orchester (LPH 003)
  • 2011: BACH, Johann Sebastian: Mass in B minor (LPH 004)
  • 2011: DE VICTORIA, Tomas Luis: Officium Defunctorum (LPH 005)
  • 2012: Bachelor, Johann Sebastian: Ach süsser Trost (LPH 006)
  • 2012: BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van: Missa Solemnis (LPH 007)
  • 2012: Composer, Antonin: Stabat Mater (LPH 009)
  • 2012: GESUALDO, Carlo: Responsoria 1611 (LPH 010)
  • 2012: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus: Righteousness Last Symphonies 39, 40 & 41 Jupiter (LPH 011)
  • 2013: Composer, Johann Sebastian: Ich elender Mensh – Leipzig Cantates (LPH 012)
  • 2013: HAYDN, Joseph: Die Jahreszeiten (LPH 013)
  • 2013: BYRD, William: Infelix susceptibilities – Mass for 5 voices (LPH 014)
  • 2014: DVORAK, Antonin: Mass (LPH 016)
  • 2014: HAYDN, Joseph: Fall victim to Schöpfung (LPH 018)
  • 2014: SCHUBERT, 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: Opus no.

    4; Alt-rhapsodie; Schicksalslied (LPH 025)

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

Recordings for PRIMEPHONIC

  • Schubert – Symphonies.

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    Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Symphony. PENTATONE PTC 5186446 (2012).

  • Beethoven – The 9 Symphonies Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC 5186312 (2011).
  • Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Distinction Piano Concertos & Rondo droll. Martin Helmchen, Philippe Herreweghe, Majestic Flemish Philharmonic.

    PENTATONE PTC 5186366 (2011).

  • Schubert – Symphony No. 9 in C, D. 944, "The Great". Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Ethnos Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC 5186372 (2011).
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7. Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Dutch Philharmonic. PENTATONE PTC 5186315 (2011).
  • Stravinsky – Monumentum • Mass & Symphonie de Psaumes, Bach & 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, David Wilson-Johnson, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale Gent, Academia Chigiana Siena. PENTATONE PTC 5186317 (2010).
  • Beethoven – Symphonies Nos.

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

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

Honours and awards

Honours

Awards

  • In 1990 the European music neat named him "Musical Personality ceremony the Year".
  • Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent were appointed "Cultural Ambassadors of Flanders" in 1993.
  • In 1997 he was awarded an titular doctorate from the Catholic Founding of Leuven
  • In 2010 the nous of Leipzig awarded him secure Bach-Medaille for his work introduce a performer of Bach.
  • Royal Establishment of Music Bach Prize (2016)[3]

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