About Les Nations Réunies

The Ensemble Les Nations Réunies is formed by four students and graduates of the Historical Performance Department at the Royal Collage of Music London, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (C.N.S.M.D.P.). They specialize in an authentic and historically informed, yet lively and stirring interpretation of the music of the baroque period. The aim is to present the variety of 17th and 18th century music, as it can be seen in the different styles of the main centres of cultural life in Europe. In its concert programme the ensembles combines works written and performed in London, Paris, Rome, Leipzig, and many other cities by composers such as Handel, Couperin, Corelli, Bach and Quantz.

The name of the ensemble originates from a combination of the titles of two works by the eminent French composer Francois Couperin: Les Gouts-Réunis and Les Nations which stand for the united tastes and the variety of nations. The combination of both to Les Nations Réunies stands for the ensemble‘s attempts to show the difference of tastes in different nations in the Baroque period, but can also be associated with the fact that all members of the ensemble come from different countries and bring together their individual experience and knowledge of baroque taste.