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
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
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
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
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
Anthony Jambon Group is composed of 5 young musicians, close-knit and virtuosic. Leading the group of friends is Anthony Jambon, whose influences are eclectic. His first album has a kind of simple, accessible beauty and the vibes are in turn energetic and powerful, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kammerfassung)
The „Song of the earth“, an ode to life, to nature, to youth, to beauty, is also the most poignant of hymns to humanity. This universal love song, from a Gustav Mahler at the summit of his art form is interpreted here by young ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 1 - Hache: Desinstalation
"He who has heard my music, must free himself of all human miseries." said Beethoven. When Trio Leos recorded Beethoven's Trio Opus 1 more than two hundred years after their creation, they wished, of course, to join that long tradition of conservation ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ysaÿe's Sonatas have accompanied all my musical life. Recording that complete work appeared to me self-evident from the world of sound into which Ysaÿe's virtuosity leads us. As he was himself the first violin in a quartet, and had created ...
Composer: Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Jean-Marc on bass clarinet, who left the esteemed symphony orchestra to assume the humble role of bassist—both rhythmic and lyrical—alongside three powerful saxophone players. The superb and generous Fabrice on sax soprano, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Haydn: Les sept dernières paroles du Christ en Croix
The seven last words of Christ are the phrases spoken by Jesus just before his death, crucified. First performed in Cadix, Spain, in 1786 in instrumental form, the work was reinterpreted the following year in a ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
It was between 1900 and 1930 that Ravel composed these works; from the Menuet Antique right up to La Valse, Europe,...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
