Les Siècles

Les Siècles is a French philharmonic orchestra founded in 2003 by François-Xavier Roth, whose ambition is to put works from the 17th to today into perspective. The musicians of this orchestra play each repertoire on the appropriate historical instruments.
Les Siècles perform regularly in Paris, in La Côte-Saint-André, in Aix-en-Provence, Metz, Caen, Nîmes, Royaumont and international stages, Amsterdam, London, Bremen, Brussels, Wiesbaden, Luxembourg, Cologne, Tokyo, Essen.
In 2013, the orchestra received exclusive permission from the publisher Boosey & Hawkes to replay The Rite of Spring as it was heard at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913. They have given this version several times in concert in France and abroad. This concert series was also recorded with the 1911 version of Petrushka, for a record published by Éditions Musicales Actes Sud.
Their Stravinsky and Debussy records were voted Classical Record of the Year in The Sunday Times and Editor’s choice in the BBC Music Magazine & Gramophone. Their Stravinsky record won the prestigious Edison Klassiek Award 2012 in the Netherlands, as well as the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in Germany.