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 ...
Composer: André Caplet (1878-1925), Vincent d'Indy, Georges Sporck, Jules Massenet, Claude Debussy 1862-1918), Florent Schmitt (1870 –1958), Darius Milhaud, Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924)
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 ...
Composer: Emmanuel Séjourné (1961), Gérard Gastinel, Gérard Pérotin, Jean Claude Gengembre
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Escaich, Hasse & Haendel: Terra Desolata
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...
Composer: Thierry Escaich (1965)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Purcell, Byrd, Scarlatti, Lotti & Allegri: Via Dolorosa
A remarkable synthesis of the Renaissance and Baroque, the Stabat Mater for ten solo voices is the central link of Via Dolorosa. The programme for this disc is a meditative journey through the suffering of the Virgin Mary. Based around the Stabat Mater, different European masterpieces ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Clara & Robert Schumann: Sublime Idylle
Robert and Clara, two names in the history of music. A recording dedicated to them under the name "Sublime Idylle". Robert’s Intermezzi op. 4 and Posthumous Variations op.13, Clara’s Romances op.21, some Lieder op.39 adapted to the piano by the latter. ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1840-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Julien the violinist, Dimitri the concert accordionist... a brotherhood, a united soul on the stage, giving all it has to artistic emotion and the intensity of sharing this moment. Whilst the two brothers look at each other with closed eyes, the music rises and affirms the words of Plato...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Two common themes run through this recording. Two interwoven themes. The one is French, the other Jewish: both are fused to bring about a new reality, the shimmering, variegated, new chapter of a century whose music we believed ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"Directions" is a recording made by Clement Saunier (soloist of the Ensemble Intercontemporain) of pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries for solo trumpet. The pieces illustrate the different styles and movements of writing of the great modern composers (Henze, Takemitsu, Scelsi, Pintscher, Maxwell Davies, Fedele). ...
Composer: Matthias Pintscher (1971), Ivan Fedele, Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012), Giasinto Scelsi, Peter Maxwell Davies
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Sturzenegger: In Nacht und Eis & Anakrôn II
I was commissioned to write Anakrôn II by the wind quintet of the Bienne Orchestra in 2006. These pieces were initially composed to accompany Marc Baumgartner's fairy tale Max and the Ogres. Anakrôn II quickly became very successful, given that it was played ...
Composer: Christophe Sturzenegger
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ever since the outset of the quartet, Debussy and Ravel have accompanied us and nurtured us. The marvelously poetical and lyrical universe of these two composers has grown within us throughout the years and has made us lift our eyes towards these galaxies which resonate according to their ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
„I wanted to create an instrument that, by the character of it’s voice, was similar to string instruments, but with a great deal more force and intensity." The essence of this first recording by Quatuor Morphing, transcriptions of works for string quartet, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Throughout Latin America, the composers featured on this album drew on the folk music of their countries to then build more complex, sophisticated interpretations. This analysis is at the heart of the duo’s latest project. Through extensive personal research and arrangements, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Age of Enlightenment has never ceased to fascinate. The philosophical ideas and esthetics it sparked are an unending source for inspiration and artistic research. Decades of tradition stir passionate debates around the ideal interpretation for music of this ...
Composer: Johann Ernst Eberlin, Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Alessandro Besozzi, Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Bonis, Boulanger, Finzi & Gotkovsky: Crossing the Line
In her own characteristic musical idiom, each of the four composers included in this recording has risen to the challenge of breaking through the limits of her time period, while not completely disavowing it. Indeed, authentic novelty in music does not always ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
La Société Anonyme des Messieurs Prudents
«L’histoire d’une cocotte qui est... trop chère... ou trop chérie!» Quatre messieurs de trente, quarante, soixante et quatre-vingts ans se pressent sur le palier d’une cocotte, se mesurent, s’affrontent puis refusent de se battre pour finalement ...
Composer: Louis Beydts (1895-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
With NOWHERE, Ouriel Ellert gives us, at last, his own music, both electric and subtle. Here is a trio that oscillates between modern jazz, improvisation and grooves and moods influenced by rock and electro. He is accompanied by his gifted companions and friends ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Moussorgski: Tableaux d'une exposition - Chostakovitch: Jazz Suite
True to their mission to expand the repertoire for wind quintet, the Quintet Moraguès performs here masterpieces by two great Russian composers in new transcriptions for wind quintet and piano. As on all their recordings, the artists premiere arrangements written exclusively ...
Composer: Modeste Moussorgski (1839-1881), Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
If we were to categorise this traditional tango, we would have to talk about this spontaneous improvisation, this dialogue between the instrumentalists within a harmonic and melodic tapestry. Because it is indeed this art of dialogue that the Fukui-Jallu duet initiated. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
