- Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Genres Classical and Romantic music Years active Since 1990 Website http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/ Members Conductor
John Eliot GardinerThe Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, founded in 1990 by John Eliot Gardiner, performs Classical and Romantic music, using the principles and original instruments of historically informed performance. The orchestra has recorded symphonies, operas, concertos, and other works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Verdi, and Weber.[1][2] The orchestra and the Monteverdi Choir performed a premiere recording (audio and TV) of the Berlioz Messe solennelle in Westminster Cathedral, London 1993 . [3][4] The orchestra performed in dramatisation by the BBC of Beethoven's performing of his third symphony.[5]
See also
John Eliot Gardiner's other ensembles:
- Monteverdi Choir
- English Baroque Soloists - a baroque orchestra composed of many of the same musicians
External links
Sources
- ^ Monteverdi Productions website, http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/about_us/orr.cfm, retrieved 2007-05-17
- ^ Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, http://www.answers.com/topic/orchestre-revolutionnaire-et-romantique, retrieved 2007-05-17
- ^ Berlioz: Messe solennelle, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259887/, retrieved 2007-05-17
- ^ Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle – the discovery of a ‘burnt’ composition, http://www.hberlioz.com/others/WGladines-e.htm, retrieved 2007-05-17
- ^ "Ian Hart is Beethoven in unique drama of the first performance of the Eroica Symphony" (Press release). BBC. May 15, 2003. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/05_may/19/eroica.shtml. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
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