Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

{{Short description|British orchestra}}

{{Infobox orchestra

| name = Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

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| founded = 1989

| principal_conductor = John Eliot Gardiner

| website = {{URL|https://monteverdi.co.uk/about-us/orchestre-revolutionnaire-et-romantique}}

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The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, founded in 1989 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.

{{Citation

| title = Monteverdi Productions website

| url = http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/about/orr

| access-date = 2012-04-22

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120304125440/https://monteverdi.co.uk/about/orr

| archive-date = 2012-03-04}}

The orchestra and the Monteverdi Choir performed a premiere recording (audio and TV) of the Berlioz Messe solennelle in Westminster Cathedral, London 1993.

{{Citation

| title = Berlioz: Messe solennelle

| url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259887/

| access-date = 2007-05-17 }}

{{Citation

| title = Berlioz's Messe Solennelle – the discovery of a 'burnt' composition

| url = http://www.hberlioz.com/others/WGladines-e.htm

| access-date = 2007-05-17 }}

The orchestra performed in the BBC television film Eroica, a dramatisation of Beethoven's own performance of his third symphony.

{{cite press release

| title = Ian Hart is Beethoven in unique drama of the first performance of the Eroica Symphony

| publisher = BBC

| date = May 15, 2003

| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/05_may/19/eroica.shtml

| access-date = 2007-05-17 }}