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Rêves d'Espagne

Hervé Billaut

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Eloquentia

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Chants d' Espagne, Op. 232

Al Goranski

Classical - Released February 7, 2023 | Al Goranski

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Marin Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Duets - Released January 27, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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It is hard to shake the feeling that Alexandre Tharaud and Jean-Guihen Queyras are committing a radical crime of lèse-majesté here. However, this is soon forgotten after you hear the first bars of their new album. They are understandably enthralled with Marin Marais’ fabulous music, and have thus decided to put their own spin on it by transcribing it for their own instruments: a modern piano and cello.This joyful transgression is in keeping with the interpretations from the beginning of the last century, when Fritz Kreisler and his peers were not afraid to play—or even pastiche—the music they loved without any concern for historical accuracy. These two musicians, on the other hand, are ‘historically informed’. They’ve listened to Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Jordi Savall, Ton Koopman and Hopkinson Smith whilst recreating Marin Marais’ music in their own way, adapting it to instruments that would have been unknown to him.Under their nimble fingers, ‘Les Folies d’Espagne’ becomes a frantic dance, ‘Le Badinage’ sounds like something straight out of a Watteau painting, and ‘Opération de la taille’ is almost humorous. Here, Alexandre Tharaud and Jean-Guihen Queyras share their love for subtle and refined music, speaking to listeners on a level that goes beyond that of a mere reconstruction. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Call to Prayer

Ghalia Benali

Classical - Released May 15, 2020 | Fuga Libera

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Cello 360

Christian-Pierre La Marca

Classical - Released November 27, 2020 | naïve classique

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This new concept album confirms an already well-established trend, that of a new generation of young classical musicians who feel stifled by their repertoires and want to open the doors to freedom, or to what they see as freedom. In Cello 360, Christian-Pierre La Marca created a work for solo cello without any accompaniment, totally cross-genre, which pays no heed to temporal or stylistic boundaries. It runs from Marin Marais to Dutilleux, from Purcell to Ligeti, from Thierry Escaich to Charlie Chaplin and The Beatles with disarming ease and a technical mastery which lets him give free rein to his artistic expression. Having only one (beautiful) instrument at his disposal, he plays with different bows, which prove so important for the production of sound, attack, power and rhythmic subtlety. He also selects different acoustics and sound recording techniques to match his chosen works.  His album, which doesn't belong in any one realm, defies classification. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Solo Cello

Nina Kotova

Chamber Music - Released April 21, 2023 | Delos

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Turina, Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Souvenir d'Espagne

Quatuor Byron

Quartets - Released February 10, 2023 | Aparté

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A title like Souvenir d'Espagne is normally associated with Spanish dances, Andalusian modes, and other traits that have come to signify Spanish music, including the guitar. A guitar is present here in one work, the Guitar Quintet, Op. 143, of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, who was not even Spanish and whose quintet, as the Quatuor Byron notes, includes Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and American influences. The opening Oración del torero ("prayer of the bullfighter") of Joaquín Turina certainly belongs on a Spanish souvenir collection, as does the composer's later and little-known Serenata, Op. 87. The Turina String Quartet, Op. 4 ("De la guitarra"), and the Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Quintet are only slightly Spanish-tinged. They are also both charming works, and the Quatuor Byron catches the delicacy of both. Turina's Quartet is an early work, essentially in the Franck mode but with definite hints of what was to come, including a zortzico dance in the central movement and various effects denoted by its subtitle. Probably the highlight here is Castelnuovo-Tedesco's quintet, which has rarely been played. It is a lovely, fluent work with wonderful guitar writing. The composer called it Schubertian, and it is worthy of the name. Even without the other works, this low-key release would be worth hearing for this work alone. The Oración del torero, probably Turina's most popular work, also receives a strong, rather haunting performance, and the enthusiasm of the Quatuor Byron is evident throughout. An offbeat album from a young quartet to watch. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Lully: Le Roi Danse - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Musica Antiqua Köln

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Isaac Albéniz: Iberia (for Solo piano & Orchestrated Version) & Other Piano Works

Alicia de Larrocha

Classical - Released June 1, 2013 | Praga Digitals

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Les choses de la vie

Patrick Fiori

French Music - Released November 24, 2008 | Columbia

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Chants Anarchistes de la Guerre D'espagne (Cantos Anarquistas de la Guerra Civil) Española)

Frente Popular

Military Music - Released August 15, 1936 | International Music Corporation Ltd.

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Tcherepnin: Prelude to "La princesse lointaine", Op. 4 & Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40

Bamberger Symphoniker

Classical - Released June 5, 2020 | CPO

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It's a real godsend to be able to discover the ballet Narcissus and Echo by Nicolaï Tcherepnine, an all-too-forgotten composer today. Yet he is one of the young Russians, such as Rachmaninov, Glazunov, Medtner or Taneïev, who succeeded their great elders in the Group of Five and Tchaikovsky. He inherited an exceptional orchestral skill from his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, before teaching himself at the St Petersburg Conservatory where he had Sergei Prokofiev as a student.Appointed as a conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre before the October Revolution, Nicolaï Tcherepnine conducted the inaugural season of the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909. It was for Serge de Diaghilev that he composed his ballet Narcissus and Echo, which was hastily premiered in 1911 in place of Daphnis and Chloe, whose composition Ravel had not finished in time. Danced by Nijinsky in a choreography by Fokine and the Bakst sets planned for Daphnis, the work seemed boring to the Parisian public. It was an unjust judgment, since this sparkling score deserves much more than to simply be forgotten.Dance générale, Bacchanal in a dreamy Greece, here we are in the same universe as Ravel, one adorned with a colourful and magical orchestration, and whose use of a choir further reinforces - in a rather disturbing way - its closeness to Ravel's future ballet. It was certainly a kind of stagnation that may have confused the audience, accustomed at the time to the wild rhythms of Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and the young Stravinsky.The beautiful recording of Łukasz Borowicz is a timely reminder of the music of this great Russian composer who lived in Paris where he died in 1945, leaving behind a large number of stage compositions (operas and ballets), symphonic music, chamber music, vocal works and piano works. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Marais: Pièces favorites (Meslanges)

François Joubert-Caillet

Classical - Released December 11, 2015 | Ricercar

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As a prelude to the vast enterprise represented by the release of Marin Marais’ complete five Books of Pièces de Viole, François Joubert-Caillet proposes this anthology of some of the most famous pieces that the illustrious gambist of La Chambre du Roi wrote for the delight of the Sun King’s private concerts. François Joubert-Caillet studied the viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Paolo Pandolfo, with whom he also studied early improvisation, and also with Rudolf Lutz. Winner of the First and Audience Prizes at the Bruges International Chamber Music Competition, he gives concerts, recitals and master classes in Europe, Asia and Latin America. François Joubert-Caillet also directs L’Achéron, an ensemble with which he appears in various formations, in particular the consort of viols. L’Achéron’s CDs, devoted to Anthony Holborne’s The Fruit of Love and Samuel Scheidt’s Ludi Musici, were released by Ricercar for which François Joubert-Caillet also recorded an album in duo with Wieland Kuijken: Johanes Schenck’s Le Nymphe di Rheno.

Lully - Le Roi Danse

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Classical - Released October 24, 2020 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Chanson bohème

Adrien La Marca

Classical - Released October 29, 2021 | La Dolce Volta

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This is the story of two young musicians who met during the Coronavirus lockdown, of all things. Daniel Hope invited the French violist Adrien La Marca to appear on his Arte programme "Hope@home" last December. For the first time, his duo partner was the German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken. And already the idea was born: why not work together on a new project that transcends the frontiers of countries and musical genres? The result was a new programme featuring classical music, French traditional music, film music and chansons, which the pair have now recorded... At the heart of the recording are the Albumblätter of the Bohemian-German composer Hans Sitt, a violist and contemporary of Johannes Brahms. These "album leaves" are masterpieces of salon music that are far too rarely found in concert programmes. Alongside them are other little gems by Antonín Dvořák, Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky and Brahms himself, but also French delicacies by Francis Poulenc and Erik Satie. More modern repertory is represented by Frank Bridge, Nadia Boulanger and Philip Glass. The two famous chansons, Hubert Giraud’s Sous le ciel de Paris and of course Aznavour’s La Bohème, exude a special charm. An album offering profundity, surprising associations, yet also a typically "bohemian" light-heartedness that enabled the two artists – but not only them! – to forget the dreariness of concert-deprived times. © La Dolce Volta
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Marin Marais: Suite en mi, Folies d'Espagne, Le labyrinthe

Marianne Muller

Chamber Music - Released August 1, 2006 | Alpha Classics

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A veteran of Jordi Savall's Hespèrion XX and XXI, gambaist Marianne Muller makes her Zig Zag Territories debut with this disc of music by the great French Baroque composer Marin Marais. The repertoire is daunting: the ingenious and evocative Le Labyrinthe, the 32 virtuoso variations on Les Folies d'Espagne, and the 12-movement Suite in E minor from Marais' Second Book of Pièces de viole. These are works that require not just virtuosity, stamina, intense expressivity, and soulful beauty of tone. Thankfully, Muller and her Ensemble Spirale fulfill all these requirements and then some.The disc opens with Les Folies d'Espagne, and through her nimble dexterity and endless invention, Muller holds the work together despite its enormous 18-minute length. The disc closes with Le Labyrinthe, and with her varied tone and subtle phrasing, Muller keeps the work on track through its harmonically adventurous 12-and-a-half minute length. But the best performance here is the central Suite in E minor. As are most of the Second Book's suites, this one is made up almost entirely of stylized dance forms; but through the concentration of Marais' thought and the power of his emotions, these sarabandes, gigues, and minuets are as deep and potentially moving as the best of Bach's variations on the same forms. With a nuanced tone ranging from the quietly contained to boldly assertive and a flexible bow allowing her to express herself as if she were singing, Muller delivers performances rivaling Jordi Savall's own recordings of these works. Especially impressive is her Tombeau pour M. de Sainte-Colombe, which closes the suite. Sterner and more severe than Savall's classic recording, Muller's interpretation is no less moving in its stoic dignity. The Ensemble Spirale -- gambist Sylvia Abramowicz, harpsichordist Violaine Cochard, Baroque guitarist Charles-Édouard Fantin, and theorbist Claire Antonini -- provides a wonderfully textured accompaniment for Muller's gamba. Recorded in clean, close, atmospheric sound, this disc can be highly recommended to everyone interested in the instrument, the composer, and the repertoire.© TiVo

Marais: Folies d'Espagne - pièces inédites

Jonathan Dunford

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Universal Music Division Decca Records France

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De la cour de Louis XIV à Shippagan! Chants traditionnels acadiens et airs de cour du XVIIe siècle

Suzie Leblanc

Classical - Released March 18, 2022 | Les Disques ATMA Inc.

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Acadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc chose traditional songs that range from the serious to the comical and arranged them in collaboration with Bergeron, Lauzer, and Nadeau-Tremblay. “My interest in traditional Acadian songs began some twenty years ago, and I have since recorded three albums of this repertoire with ATMA Classique”, says LeBlanc. “The majority of these songs come from France. But songs, just like peoples, are nomadic: they have no borders!” “The common airs de cour may have crossed the Atlantic stowed in the baggage of musicians and noblemen” says LeBlanc. “The French nobility who settled in Quebec in the 17th century wanted to reproduce the glories of Versailles, and some of these airs could have reached the shores of Shippagan”. © ATMA Classique
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Les menus plaisirs de Louis XIV (Highlights)

William Christie

Classical - Released September 3, 2015 | harmonia mundi