Purcell, Byrd, Scarlatti, Lotti & Allegri: Via Dolorosa
Ensemble Zene & Bruno Kele-Baujard
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. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Julien Bouclier & Dimitri Bouclier
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
Benjamin Alunni & Marine Thoreau La Salle
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). ...
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 ...
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
Henri-Michel Garzia, Ensemble Neophonia, Vannina Santoni & Benjamin Garzia
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 ...
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 ...
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
Quintette Moraguès & Yves Henry
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 ...
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
After winning the Monde de la Musique "Choc" award for his first solo album, then the Jazz Magazine "Choc" award in 2016 for his noted interpretation of Andy Emler's concerto "Ciel de Sable" with the Orchestre Victor Hugo, Yvan Robillard is back, solo, ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
While the Jivaros shrunk heads and sewed closed the orifices of the face to keep the spirit of the deceased inside, reducing it to silence and protecting themselves from its vengeance, Ensemble Zellig's reduction work pursues a very different objective: ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Musique Française pour hautbois
Hélène Devilleneuve & Rikako Murata
If this album of iconic pieces for oboe has been a long-standing project for Hélène Devilleneuve - super soliste de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - it is because of the particularly strong ties that she has with each one of them. From Bozza and his shimmering harmonies to the ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
