After "Ginastera" (2016) and "Debussy/Tôn Thât-Tiêt" (2018), PRAELUDIO is the third opus - the first as a soloist- that Patrick Langot has recorded with Klarthe Records. Founder of the Syntonia Quintet, soloist and chamber musician with a much praised discography (Chocolate Classical, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schubert: Schwanengesang - Le Chant Du Cygne
The encounter between French baritone Thomas Dolié and Quebec pianist Olivier Godin gave rise to a magnificent collaboration around Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang cycle. First given in recital at the Bourgie Hall in Montreal in 2016 and then recorded in the same hall a year later. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Ensemble Musica Nigella, Takénori Némoto, Marie Lenormand, Pablo Schatzman & Iris Torrosian
From neighbouring Spain to the Orient, passing by eastern lands, the second big wave of exoticism which reached its summit between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, unquestionably stimulated by numerous universal exhibitions organised in Europe, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"Made up of five eclectic and accomplished musicians, the Aquilon Quintet cultivates an active interest in the great social questions of our time through their artistic output: the fight against climate change with their latest album""Seasons"", or indeed the place of women in the ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Carnet de voyage, Livre 1, Beethoven & Cras
On this album, we have juxtaposed the work of two musicians who, at a first glance, don't have anything in common. One is Jean Cras, captain of a french ship and a dilettante musician born at the turn of the twentieth century, the other is Ludwig van Beethoven, who needs no ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This first album comes from our desire to showcase our three years of musical adventures as a quintet. We would love to share our stories, travels, encounters and dreams with you. We are thankful to have been amongst the winners during the 9th Osaka international chamber music ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In the torment and the great human disorder of the Second World War, millions of children, women and men perished in death camps, killed by the barbary of man. Amongst them, three musicians: Pavel Haas, Hans Krása and Erwin Schulhoff. They were Jewish, they were also intellectuals, modernist, communist ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"Brass on the roof? What a strange idea!"" These could have been the words of Boris Vian whilst evoking this recording by the Paris Brass Quintet dedicated to French composers from the ""Dada"" movement. Jérémie Dufort's arrangements for brass and voice take us back to the the surrealist farces of Poulenc, Milhaud, Satie or indeed ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Géraldine Casey and Philippe Barbey-Lallia
¡ España ! offers a journey through the art and soul of Spanish singing, in its most diverse musical forms. It wouldbe difficult to summarize the immense melodic heritage resulting from the plurality of regions and the long historyof this beautiful country, but the prism of the nineteenth ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In the ten years since its creation, the Opus 333 quartet has become a veritable ambassador for traditional french brass. In France and throughout the world, this surprising chamber music quartet has met with success thanks to their great musical complicity and their daring transcriptions of the greatest works from the classical and contemporary repertoire. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
A little gem of fun! In Avignon, the theater director Casanova or rather ... Maisonneuve is stubborn to mount an Italian opera which he is in love until ridiculous. This tasty opera-comic composed in 1829 amuses itself to pique the elite of the time who swears by Rossini. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
This eclectic and extremely witty album reflecting the Tetraktys Ensemble’s repertoire covers fifty years of typically British music of the first half of the twentieth century. From the last lights of Romanticism to the young Britten’s dazzling sonorities the eleven instrumental soloists serve up ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Weber: Symphonie No. 1 & Concertos
Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo, Nicolas Baldeyrou, David Guerrier & Thomas Bloch
Virtuosity, brightness, brio: Karl Maria von Weber's concertos always raise an electrifying enthusiasm. But Weber was also a poet, full of lyricism, an imaginative painter, an innovator. This disc, presented by three renowned artists whose paths have crossed whilst playing on the world's greatest stages (Nicolas Baldeyrou, David Guerrier and Thomas Bloch), ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The fruit of an intense complicity with Simon Zaoui, "Reflets" is based around major works from the french music repertoire for bassoon and piano dating from the beginning of the 20th century: Saint-Saens, Koechlin, Dutilleux. These pieces are played alongside other, more rare, compositions ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Or Notes Brass & Julien Gernay
Loyal to their artistic approach since their creation in 2004, the Or Notes Brass Quintet presents us here with new works set alongside repertoire pieces and transcriptions. Their encounter with the argentine composer Gustavo Beytelmann in 2010 inspired them to explore the music of South America, from ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Maya Villanueva & Quintette Syntonia
2018 is definitely the Debussy Year! For their second CD ('Ginastera' / 2016, Klarthe Records), soprano Maya Villanueva, pianist Romain David and his partners from Syntonia Quintet paid tribute to him with this double anthology of melodies, piano music and sonatas. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Theophile Alexandre & Guillaume Vincent
Worldwide premiere recording: the countertenor Théophile Alexandre and the pianist Guillaume Vincent dare undressing baroque music in piano-voice. Bach, Handel, Purcell, Rameau, Vivaldi… In 21 pieces, like the 21 grams of soul’s weight, it’s the essence of ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Claudine Simon & Alexandre Doisy
A virtuoso saxophonist, winner of the prestigious international prize at the ARD in Munich, Alexandre Doisy shares with us his musical hit list. These major elements of the repertoire were solicited, in the most part, by the American philanthropist and ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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 ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Escaich, Hasse & Haendel: Terra Desolata
Ensemble Zoroastre & Savitri De Rochefort
The ensemble Zoroastre, led by Savitri de Rochefort and the composer Thierry Escaich, present us here with powerful works which are more than ever topical. We become aware of the role of the divine during the darkest hours of humanity, both in the 18th century and today...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
