François Fauché is a French soloist singer specializing in

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repertoire for

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Biography

François Fauché worked a lot during the 1980s with the ensemble of

baroque music Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Classical music, Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance music, Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Class ...

Les Arts Florissants, spearhead of the baroqueux movement, conducted by William Christie. He was then one of the pillars of this ensemble, alongside

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, Jill Feldman, Monique Zanetti,

Guillemette Laurens Guillemette Laurens (born 6 November 1957 in Fontainebleau, France) is a French operatic mezzo-soprano. Guillemette trained at the Academy of Toulouse and debuted as Baba in ''The Rake's Progress'' at Salle Favart. She took part in the premiere ...

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, Philippe Cantor,

Gregory Reinhart Gregory Reinhart (born June 18, 1951 in Pavilion, New York) is an American bass (vocal range), bass opera singer. He is noted for an extremely wide repertory which ranges from early music to the world premieres of several contemporary operas inc ...

, Antoine Sicot etc. He is a member of the

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conducted by

, with whom he took part in numerous concerts in France and abroad, as well as in numerous recordings. He was also a member of the

Ensemble Organum Ensemble Organum is a group performing early music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm B ...

and the European ensemble William Byrd.

Discography (selection)

With Les Arts Florissants

* 1983 : ' H.416 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1983: ' H.482 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1984: ''

Médée ''Médée'' is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century Fr ...

'' by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 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 * 1986: ''Le Reniement de Saint Pierre'' H.424 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1986: ''Méditations pour le Carême'' H.380-389 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1987: '' Selva morale e spirituale'' by Claudio Monteverdi * 1989: ' by Luigi Rossi * 1989: ''

Te Deum The ( or , ; from its incipit, ) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to a date before AD 500, but perhaps with antecedents that place it much earlier. It is central to the Ambrosian hymnal, which spread throughout the Latin ...

'' by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1990: ''Le Malade Imaginaire'' H 495 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * ''Petits Motets'' by

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( – 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court o ...

With Ensemble Organum

* ''Chants de l'Église de Rome - Période byzantine''

With Ensemble Clément Janequin

* 1989: ''Pierre de La Rue : Missa L'Homme armé - Requiem'' * 1994: ''Une fête chez Rabelais''

With Concert Spirituel

* 1997: ''Leçons de Ténèbres'' by Joseph Michel

External links

Website of ensemble Les Arts Florissants

François Fauché
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