Étienne Lestringant is a contemporary French

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specialising in the

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

repertoire.

Biography

Étienne Lestringant was one of the first members of the

ensemble Les Arts Florissants convened by William Christie in Autumn 1979. During the 1980s he was one of the pillars of this ensemble, which was then the spearhead of the

ux movement, alongside

Agnès Mellon Agnès Mellon (born 17 January 1958) is a French soprano who specializes in baroque music. Biography Agnès Mellon started her career in 1981 with the baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants (ensemble), Les Arts Florissants, directed by William ...

, Jill Feldman, Guillemette Laurens, Monique Zanetti, Dominique Visse, Michel Laplénie, Philippe Cantor, Gregory Reinhart, François Fauché, Antoine Sicot etc. Étienne Lestringant then sang for 5 years with the "Groupe Vocal de France" and the . More recently, he founded the "Ensemble vocal Frédéric Chopin", a group of amateur singers open to students of the Frédéric Chopin Conservatory of Paris and adults from outside the community.Conservatoire Frédéric Chopin
on Mairie de Paris - Conservatoire du XV

Discography (selection)

With Les Arts Florissants

* 1980: ''Filius Prodigus'' H.399 by

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'' ''H.146, Marche en rondeau''. This theme is st ...

* 1981: '' Pastorale sur la Naissance de N.S. Jésus-Christ'' H.483 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1981: ''Altri Canti'' by Claudio Monteverdi * 1982: ' H.414 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1982: ''Oratorios (Il pecator pentito, O Cecità del misero mortale)'' by

Luigi Rossi Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish comp ...

* 1982: ''Antienne "O" de l'Avent'' by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1983: ''

Il ballo delle ingrate ''Il ballo delle ingrate'' (''The Ballet of the Female Ingrates'') is a semi-dramatic ballet by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi set to a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini. It was first performed in Mantua on Wednesday, 4 June 1608 as part of t ...

'' by Claudio Monteverdi * 1984: ''Airs de cour (1689)'' by

Michel Lambert Michel Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singer, theorbist, and composer. Career Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans, a brother of kin ...

* 1986: ''

Dido and Aeneas ''Dido and Aeneas'' (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque music, Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncer ...

'' by Henry Purcell (L'Esprit)

References

External links

Étienne Lestringant, ''La voix chorale ou le chant multiplié''
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