Philippe Herreweghe is principally known as the music director of Bach. On one interview with La Scena Musicale (November 1997), he described his ensembles as a poupée russe, the Russian dolls that fit one inside the other. He explained that his Baroque instruments group for Bach and German repertoire is presented by Collegium Vocale Gent, the first ensembles group he constructed in 1970. While for bigger works and French Baroque, he applied to La Chapelle Royale, a French ensemble for Baroque music that Herreweghe found in 1977. Moreover, for even bigger classial and romantic works, he referred to Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, orchestra he formed in 1991 that specializes in the performance of music from the period roughly 1750 to the early twentieth century. That is, it covers the period from the flourishing of Haydn to that of Mahler. Philippe Herreweghe also arranged Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale that specialises in Renaissance polyphony. The Collegium Vocale Gent were one of the first ensembles to use new ideas about baroque performance practice in vocal music. They perform at the major concert venues and music festivals of Europe, Israel, the United States, Russia, South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

 

 

Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

 

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 “Scottish” 40’

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Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C major, Op.61 38’