Group
Le Concert Spirituel
French baroque ensemble
- From
- France
- Since
- 1987–present
- Releases
- 72
- baroque
- classical
About
Le Concert Spirituel is a French ensemble specialising in works of baroque music, played on period instruments. Founded by Hervé Niquet in 1987, it is named after the 18th-century concert series Concert Spirituel. The group performs internationally, playing mostly rarely performed sacred music and operas, and making recordings. Its focus is on French music played at the court of Versailles.
Members
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Caroline Delume theorbo
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Johanne Maitre oboe
Discography
Albums
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Motet à St Jean Baptiste / Trois Lamentations
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Requiem / Motet "Beatus quem elegisti"
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Te Deum / Motet "Diligam te Domine"
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Te Deum / Motets
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Requiem / Motet "Benedictus Dominus"
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Messe des morts / Litanies
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Grands Motets, Vol. 1: Te Deum / Miserere / Plaude lætare Gallia
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Vespres à la Vierge
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Missa Azzolina and Other Sacred Music
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Music for Choir and Organ
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Ballets de Village et Sérénade
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Don Quixote chez la Duchesse
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Sacred Works, Vol. 3: Te Deum / Mass and Motets / Canticum Zachariae
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Motets
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Les Grands Motets
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Cantatas: La Mort d’Hercule / Poliphème / Simphonias: “La Magnifique” / “L’impromptu” / “La Félicité” / “L’Abondance”
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Orphée / Léandre et Héro / Sonata “Anonima” / Suite No. 2
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Sérénades françaises / Les Fragments mélodiques / Bassoon Concerto / Deuxième Sérénade ou Simphonie françoise / Concerto pour Zampogna
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Le Triomphe d’Iris
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Grands Motets, Vol. 2: Quare fremuerunt / O Lachrymae / Dies irae / De profundis
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Messe et Motets
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Grands Motets, Vol. 3: Benedictus / Notus in Judæa Deus
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Ballets de Village
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Sacred Music, Volume 4: Motets / Litanies à la Vierge
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Daphnis & Chloé
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Water Music & Fireworks
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King Arthur
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Sonates pour basses
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Callirhoe
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Sémélé
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Missa Assumpta Est Maria
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Messe de Monsieur de Mauroy
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Requiem pour Voix d’Hommes
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Andromaque
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Grands Motets
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Le Carnaval de Venise
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Les 25 ans !!!
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Sémiramis
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Mass for 40 and 60 voices
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Missa Macula non est in te
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La Toison d'or
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Dido & Aeneas
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Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour
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Gloria / Magnificat
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Requiems pour Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette
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Persée 1770
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Messiah 1754
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Missa si Deus pro nobis / Magnificat
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L’Opéra des Opéras
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Messe solennelle
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Les grandes eaux musicales 2007 du Château de Versailles
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Requiem pour Louis XVI
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Armide 1778
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La Flûte enchantée
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Phryné
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Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse
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Coronation Anthems
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Grands Motets pour Louis XV
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Ariane et Bacchus
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Fauré: Requiem / Gounod: Messe de Clovis
Compilations
Other
Links
Official
Conductor position
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 55beb4bb-d359-4f97-bd06-b19c334e5d67
- ISNI
- 0000000123083177
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 9 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.