The Orchestre des Champs-Élysées is an orchestra that specializes in the performance of music from the period from roughly 1750 to the early twentieth century. That is, it covers the period from the flourishing of Haydn to that of Mahler. It performs each work on instruments from the period of the composer's lifetime.

Venues

As of 2010, the Orchestra has been in residence at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne. Despite its name, the theatre is not on the Champs-Élysées but nearby in another part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris....

 in Paris, and at the Palais des Beaux-Arts

Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

The Paleis voor Schone Kunsten or Palais des Beaux-Arts is cultural venue in Brussels, Belgium. Often referred to as "Bozar" or "PSK", construction was completed in 1928 and includes exhibition and conference rooms, movie theater and concert hall which serves as home to the National Orchestra of...

 in Brussels, for several years. It has performed in such venues as the Concertgebouw

Concertgebouw

The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" literally translates into English as "concert building"...

 (Amsterdam), the Musikverein (Vienna), the Barbican Centre

Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory...

 (London), Alte Oper

Alte Oper

The Alte Oper is a major concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The building was inaugurated in 1880. Many important works have been premiered at the Alte Oper, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937....

 (Frankfurt), the Philharmonic Halls in Berlin

Berliner Philharmonie

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building is acclaimed for both its acoustics and its architecture....

 and Munich

Gasteig

Gasteig is a cultural center in Munich, opened in 1985, which hosts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The Richard Strauss Conservatory, the Volkshochschule, and the municipal library are all located in the Gasteig...

, the Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, Germany. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics. The first Gewandhaus was built in 1781 by architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe. The second opened on 11 December 1884, and was destroyed in the...

 (Leipzig), the Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...

 (New York), Parco della Musica

Parco della Musica

Auditorium Parco della Musica is a large multi-functional public music complex in Rome, Italy. The complex is situated in the north of the city, in the area where the 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held....

 (Rome) and the Auditoriums of Dijon and Lucerne.

Conductors

As of 2010, the Artistic Director and principal conductor is Philippe Herreweghe

Philippe Herreweghe

Philippe Herreweghe is a Flemish conductor.In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher...

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Guest conductors have included Daniel Harding

Daniel Harding

Daniel Harding is a British conductor.Harding studied trumpet at Chetham's School of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra at age 13. At age 17, Harding assembled a group of musicians to perform Pierrot Lunaire of Arnold Schoenberg, and sent a tape of the performance to Simon...

, Louis Langrée

Louis Langrée

Louis Langrée is a French conductor. He is the son of organist and theorist Alain Langrée. One of his sisters is an amateur cellist....

, Christian Zacharias

Christian Zacharias

-Music career:Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. He won the Geneva Competition in 1969 and the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973. After winning the Ravel Competition in Paris in 1975, he launched an international career...

, Hans Holliger, Christophe Coin and René Jacobs.

Critical reaction

Writing for Music Web International, Margarida Mota-Bull wrote: "for the first time, I felt differently towards this Symphony and this is entirely due to Herreweghe's, and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées's credit....there was a light at the end of the tunnel, a triumph over adversity, which I believe was an interpretation very close to the composer’s intentions....this interpretation of the "Scottish" by Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées was truly wonderful and arguably, one of the best I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing."

Discography

(in reverse chronological order)

For φ :

In 2010, Philippe Herreweghe has founded his own label, φ (PHI), coproduced with Outhere

MAHLER Symphonie N.4

For Naïve

Naïve Records

Naïve Records is a French independent record label based in Paris, specializing in electronic music, pop music, jazz and classical music. It was founded in 1997 by Patrick Zelnik, Gilles Paires and Eric Tong Cuong.-Artists:* Aṣa* Asian Dub Foundation...

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BEETHOVEN Works for violin and orchestra

For harmonia mundi

Harmonia Mundi

Harmonia Mundi is an independent music record label founded in 1958 by Bernard Coutaz in Arles . The Latin phrase means "world harmony"....

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BRUCKNER Symphony N.5
BRUCKNER Mass N.3 in F minor
SCHUMANN Symphonies N.1 & N.3
MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn
BRUCKNER Symphony N.4
BRUCKNER Symphony N.7
SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN Mass in A flat / Psalm 42
FAURE / FRANCK Requiem /Symphonie in D
BEETHOVEN Symphony N.9
SCHUMANN Scenes from Faust
BERLIOZ L'Enfance du Christ
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto / Piano Concerto
SCHUMANN Symphony N.2 / Symphony N.4
MOZART Gran Partita K.361 / Serenade for winds K.388
MOZART Requiem
BRAHMS A German Requiem
MENDELSSOHN Paulus
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
BERLIOZ Summer nights / Herminie
MENDELSSOHN The Midsummer Night's dream
MENDELSSOHN Elias
MOZART Great mass in C minor