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
Schubert: Eine Winterreise - un voyage d'hiver
13 melodies from Schubert's masterpiece fly away into the dreamlike world of singer Noëmi Waysfeld and pianist Guillaume de Chassy ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Brahms - Trio et Quintette avec Clarinette
The clarinet was the source of inspiration for Brahms’ works. A century earlier, the friendship between the clarinetist Stadler and Mozart culminated in the sublime concerto K622, like a luminous farewell. In this case the farewell takes place in the twilight.His source ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Un moment musical chez les Schumann
This "Musical Moment in the Schumann family" brings together the famous popular pieces for cello and cello. Robert Schumann's piano highlighted with two sumptuous sonatas unfairly misunderstood composed by the siblings Camillo and Georg Schumann. Exempt from a common genealogy, these three ...
Composer: Georg Schumann, Camillo Schumann (1872–1946 )
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Bretagne[s] project is born out of a twenty-year friendship with violinist Sullimann Altmayer, whom I met at the Conservatoire in Paris. At the time, I was already fascinated with the works and personality of composer Joseph-Guy Ropartz, a fascination that elicited ironic smiles from my ...
Composer: Benoît Menut (1977), Jean Cras (1879-1932), Joseph-Guy Ropartz (1864-1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The result of a close friendship which started at a concert for two pianos in Buenos Aires which brought the two pianists together. It was then only natural that these two artists would want to bring together their two cultures and repertoires in a festive 2020 anniversary celebration... of The Roaring Twenties! ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This recital program associates Bach and Chopin - is it therefore unusual? At a first glance, the four musketeers of the romantic generation born around 1810, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, were all marked by the resurrection of Bach's music, almost completely forgotten until then. ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The album "Modernism", under the baton of the talented conductor Bastien Stil and featuring the brilliant violinist Sarah Nemtanu, takes you into the heart of Soviet music from 1917 to 1932 ...
Composer: Dmitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975), Dimitri Tchesnokov (1982), Boris Liatochinski (1895-1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes, twice winner at the Victoires de la Musique, takes us on a marvellous voyage around the most emblematic airs of the french operatic repertoire... a release by Klarthe not to be missed! ...
Composer: Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Jacques Fromental Halévy, Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
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