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Philippe Herreweghe
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Philippe, Knight Herreweghe (Born May 2, 1947) is a Belgian conductor. Herreweghe was born in Ghent. In his hometown he combined studies at the University of Ghent (medical science and psychiatry) with a musical education at the Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher. In the same period he began conducting and in 1970 founded the Collegium Vocale Ghent, and gave up medicine. Very soon Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt took notice of his musical approach, and invited him and the Collegium Vocale Ghent to join them in their recordings of the complete Bach cantatas. Philippe Herreweghe (fee-LEEP HEHR-uh-way-zhuh)'s authentic approach to baroque music came to be widely recognized, and in 1977 he founded another ensemble in Paris, La Chapelle Royale, to perform the music of the French Golden Age. Since then he has started several other groups and ensembles with whom he managed to create a repertoire stretching from the Renaissance to contemporary music: the Ensemble Vocale Européen, specialised in Renaissance polyphony, and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, founded in 1991 to bring alive, once again, the repertoire of the romantic and pre-romantic era on original instruments. 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
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Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, K. 543: III. Menuetto (Allegretto) – Trio
1,6952Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter": III. Menuetto (Allegretto) – Trio
1,4323Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: III. Scherzo: Allegro -
6674Les Indes Galantes: Air Des Sauvages
4755Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248, Pt. 4: No. 36, Chor. "Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben"
3856Motet « Jesu, meine Freude » for 5 voices, BWV 227: I. Choral: Jesu, meine Freude
3557Johannes-Passion, BWV 245, II. Teil: 39. Chorus "Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine"
2998Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
2939Sérénade No. 10 "Gran Partita" K.361, en Si Bémol Majeur: III. Adagio
27310Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244, Erster Teil: 1. Chorus I II "Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen"
257albums
Fauré: Requiem
Mozart: The Last Symphonies
Fauré: Requiem / Franck: Symphony
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J.S. Bach : Christmas Oratorio
J.S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244
Rameau: Les Indes galantes (Symphonies)
Bach: Mass in B minor
BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8 (Herreweghe)
Bach: Motetten
Philippe Herreweghe by himself
Mozart: Requiem
J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion