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Chapelle du Roi is one of England's finest early music vocal ensembles. Founded in 1994 by Alistair Dixon, then a Gentleman-in-Ordinary at the Chapel Royal, Chapelle du Roi has made highly acclaimed appearances at the York Early Music Festival in July 1997, the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and at many other festivals across the UK and Europe. Chapelle du Roi comprises 8 of London's most exciting young singers, and is noted for its engaging stage presence in live performance. Specialising in the performance of sacred music from the European Renaissance, the ensemble has two aims...

La Chapelle Royale is a French ensemble of baroque music. La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. The initial vocation of the ensemble was to interpret the great French repertoire of the 17th century (Henri Dumont, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, André Campra, Jean Gilles...) but, since 1985, Herreweghe associated it more and more with his own Belgian ensemble, the Collegium Vocale Gent, in a repertoire almost exclusively dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach. Next to La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe also founded the "Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale". La Chapelle Royale...