Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Genres Classical and Romantic music
Years active Since 1990
Website http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/
Members
Conductor
John Eliot Gardiner

The 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:

External links

Sources

  1. ^ Monteverdi Productions website, http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/about_us/orr.cfm, retrieved 2007-05-17 
  2. ^ Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, http://www.answers.com/topic/orchestre-revolutionnaire-et-romantique, retrieved 2007-05-17 
  3. ^ Berlioz: Messe solennelle, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259887/, retrieved 2007-05-17 
  4. ^ Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle – the discovery of a ‘burnt’ composition, http://www.hberlioz.com/others/WGladines-e.htm, retrieved 2007-05-17 
  5. ^ "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. 
Orchestras based in London, England