This new adventure in the world of jazz, or “improvised music in a specific framework” as certain like to define it, could have been called “Saying goodbye to the old world”, as that's exactly what was behind my inspiration while writing the themes that I proposed to Dan Schnelle and Alex Boneham. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mikrokosmik (D'après Béla Bartók)
"Crossover" between classical music and jazz, the album Mikrokosmik is dedicated to Béla Bartók’s music, which universe, filled with popular melodies and songs, carries the notion of universality. These pieces from "Mikroskosmos" of Béla Bartók have been revisited through the form of an ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Attention, take-off imminent, fasten your seatbelts! Objective: The Moon. Such is the adventure, the invitation to travel with YR3 into space; spheres and stardust. The Milky Way shows us its greatness and radiance. In the distance, far away, the moon, the Earth's one and only natural satellite, is a shimmering "big rock". ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jazz Age Centenaire (Edition: 1920)
Celebrate the American Hit Parade of 1920... one century later. Just imagine... 1920, post war, post Spanish flu... women finally win the right to vote, and now Prohibition? This decade was just beginning its insatiable taste for new tunes & Jazz!!! ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Since our beginnings in 2009, our musique has placed itself in the heart of the debate with which Tango has found itself confronted for decades: how, in this day and age, should one perform historical and inherited material? ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
For this new creation, Olivier Calmel makes the bet of a new band which sound is based on strings and percussions, and surrounded himself with exceptional musicians, soloists and improvisers, tightrope walkers. Pleasure, risk and sharing are the stakes of this encounter. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Four young Toulouse Jazzmen guided by pianist Philippe Léogé honour the blue period of the Blue Note label. A sound that Claude Nougaro called "Sa Majesté le Jazz". The Soul of Herbie, Horace or Wayne hovers...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
With its long bitter-sweet melodies and its deep-rooted poetic moods, SUPERFORMA reflects its composer and trumpet player - Pierre Millet's incredible impetuousness that he has been developing for over a decade now. From his intimate ground in Normandy/France, he builds a personal universe unlike any other, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Many tributes have been paid to the master of tango nuevo, whose centenary of his birth we celebrated in 2021. Far too few have matched the level of excellence of the musician himself, a monument in his own lifetime.This is the Himalayan peak that Louise Jallu dared to climb with all her youthful glib. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
For its first album, the Ensemble Il Caravaggio proposes a journey around the female figure in Italy. Mixing popular and scholarly sources, this programme illustrates the diversity of the Italian imagination. ...
Composer: Giovanni Felice Sances, Antonio Brunelli, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Andrea Falconieri, Isabella Leonarda, Francesco Cavalli, Tarquinio Merula
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Vocal
Chants de l'Aube et du Soir is a lyrical duo which takes its inspiration from the french melody genre. Despite the unique identity of the composer Cyril Achard, the influence of the great masters is clearly perceptible through the shadow cast by Fauré, Ravel and even Poulenc, ...
Composer: Cyril Achard
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
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
