Committed to creating links between existing repertoire and music of our time, to juxtapose works of the past with those of today in order to better communicate to listeners the continuity and unity of music, the chamber music ensemble 'Des Equilibres' had the idea of commissioning works from three composers; ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Prism, these are the infinite facets of a reality that we create or taste at every moment. Like a score, life leads us to realise the performer that we are. Being and becoming! This is all evolution. In my opinion, Bach's music represents the very essence of this encounter between ...
Composer: Jean-Sébastien Bach (1785-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
An Einsamer Quelle - A une source solitaire
The "An einsamer Quelle" project is the sequel to the "Sublime Idylle" CD which was released in 2018 by Klarthe. The project was dedicated to the works of Clara and Robert Schumann and already underlined the lyricism of the piano, notably with the op.39 lieder by Robert, adapted for the piano by Clara. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hailed by the critics for his latest album devoted to the Master of Chamber Music Gabriel Fauré, Damien Ventula returns with his first album as a soloist accompanied by the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra. This time again, French music will be in the spotlight ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel , Camille St-Saëns, Thierry Huillet
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Live recital "Correspondances"
The presentation of the Fantasie op.17 (1835-36) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) alongside the B Minor Sonata (1852-53) by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) is not based on the simple convergence of a romantic approach – which would in any case need to be stated explicitly ....
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
A homage to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, imagined for the singular sound and strength of The Pocket Symphony (accordion, harp, marimba, string quintet, transverse flute, clarinets and baritone saxhorn), Beethoven, si tu nous entend... plunges into the immensity of the composer's symphonic work by following ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
A number of friends and complicit performers (in particular Hélène and Thierry Salmona, sponsors of Adonais), have made the production of this new album possible. I concocted its programme - during my residence at the Abbaye de La Prée between 2014-2016 - in homage to Antiquity where nature and ...
Composer: Bruno Ducol
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
After a first disc in 2007 dedicated to existing works and transcriptions, we decided to work in direct collaboration with composers. The path we have chosen is designed to open up the repertoire and the horizons of our duo. This disc is an account of a part of these compositions, and of as many encounters. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In September 2016, Frédéric and I took up the opportunity to play and record with a magnificent Steinway piano from 1952 which had belonged to the Tibor Varga foundation, in a dream-like place immersed in nature. It seemed fitting to celebrate our 15 years of artistic collaboration with Claude Debussy, a composer who ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
It is with great pleasure that I present you with this new album "Dialogues". It has been a long-term project and brings together on album two masterpieces by Pierre Boulez: "Domaines" in its original version with ensemble and "Dialogue de l’ombre double" (dialogue of the double shadow) ...
Composer: Bruno Mantovani (1974), Pierre Boulez (1925-), Michael Jarrell (1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The countertenor Mathieu Salama, accompanied by the ensemble La Réjouissance, offers you this anthology of arias and duos expressing joy, melancholy, passion, pain, madness, each in turn weaving the thread of this baroque journey. Excerpts from the greatest operas of Vivaldi, Haendel, Monteverdi, ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Plunge into the depths of the most emblematic duos in the repertoire with two fantastic singers, Karine Deshayes and Delphine Haidan, accompanied by the pianist Johan Farjot. Winners of multiple awards at the Victoires de la Musique and presented on the most prestigious international ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893), Frederick Delius (1862-1934), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The judiciously chosen title of this album by the Quatuor Ardeo refers to the recording’s central works. Schubert’s “Rosamunde” quartet is his thirteenth of fifteen string quartets, and the number 13 plays an important structural and symbolic role in Crumb’s Black Angels, the piece ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For his first monographic recording, Johan Farjot offers a programme of short pieces, for one to eight instruments (New York City, for double saxophone quartet). In this mix of concision and magic, we find the essence of the composer's interests. Perpetuum mobile, ostinatos, imitations, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The choice of repertoire for our first recording is naturally focused on French music. We wish to highlight its finesse and the refinement of its harmonies. This recording is conceived as a concert with a programme that will cover different musical influences from the 19th to the 21st centuries. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Silas Bassa is surprising today with "SILAS", his most personal album, taking its source in the power released in his two previous albums. Composer and performer of each of the ten pieces presented in this album, the artist reveals a fascinating universe, both very current and resolutely timeless, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This first recording devoted to Franck Villard, composer and conductor born in 1966, brings together works for choir and organ in a programme built in the shape of an arch around the choral cycle Ténèbres du Jeudi Saint. With his stripped-down style, Franck Villard is close to the spirit of Tomas-Luis de ...
Composer: Franck Villard (1966)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Lyrical Revelation ADAMI 2018, finalist at the Voix Nouvelles competition and at The Glyndebourne Opera Cup in 2018 too, Second Prize at the International Cesti Competition for Baroque Singing in Innsbruck and Second Prize at the International Singing Competition of Nimes in 2017, young mezzo soprano Eléonore Pancrazi has already been awarded many times ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"Talisman": an anthology of Karol Beffa's chamber and symphonic music, Victoires de la musique classique 2013 and 2018. There is both contemplative direction (the clouds) and over-vitaminated direction (the clocks), all served by the greatest performers. ...
Composer: Karol Beffa (1973-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This Schumann's record explores different artistic dimensions through the symbol of the hermaphrodite, which is to highlight the two characters that are crossing this music. ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
