"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
¡ 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 ...
Composer: Felipe Pedrell (1841-1922)
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. ...
Composer: Jacques-Fromental Halévy
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 ...
Composer: Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Weber: Symphonie No. 1 & Concertos
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
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 ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937), Gustavo Beytelmann (1945), Karol Beffa (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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. ...
Composer: Claude Debussy 1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
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
