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Paris - Istanbul - Shangai

Joël Grare

Classical - Released March 13, 2008 | Alpha Classics

This recording is a manifesto: modernism, culture, temporality, style, improvisation are all concepts with which Joël Grare plays, like a juggler. At a time of globalisation, of standardisation of cultures, this disc lets us hear the vision of the world of one man, at one given time. The Paris-Istambul-Shanghaï Ensemble (Chinese violin, theorbo, bass and percussions) forms the musical base of this invitation to travel. The guests, such as Claire Lefilliâtre, contribute their personnality by taking up the learned or popular themes. This "group", somewhere between a chamber music ensemble and a traditional one, plays standards like Jazzmen. Their standards? Magnificent themes stemming from Spain, Turkey, China, ancient music...Analysing these melodies well beyond their borders, thoroughly enjoying them to interpret them better, improvising, composing, whether or not in the style of their country or their period, following his mood, the taste of tea, the moment; welcome to the world of Joël Grare.
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Charles Koechlin : Orchestral Works

Heinz Holliger

Symphonic Music - Released October 13, 2017 | SWR Classic

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Bacchus et Ariane (Intégrale)

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Classical - Released May 15, 2007 | Naxos

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Lys & Love (Live)

Laurent Voulzy

French Music - Released November 25, 2013 | Columbia

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Dukas: Cantates, chœurs et musique symphonique

Hervé Niquet

Classical - Released November 13, 2015 | Bru Zane

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Le bal masqué

La Compagnie Créole

World - Released January 1, 1984 | Zagora

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Koechlin: Vocal Works With Orchestra

Heinz Holliger

Classical - Released January 1, 2004 | SWR Classic

This set of the vocal works with orchestra by Charles Koechlin has everything going for it. First, with eight of the nine works being world-premiere recordings, most of the music here is terra incognita to even the most determined fan of the decadently voluptuous music of la belle epoch. Second, with aching chromatic melodies, yearning chromatic sonorities, and vibrant orchestral colors, all of the works here are examples of Wagner-influenced French music at its best. Third, with her sumptuous tone and passionate interpretations, Juliane Banse's singing is wholly convincing and utterly compelling. Fourth, with the accomplished former-oboist-turned-conductor Heinz Holliger on the podium, the accompaniment is scrupulously polished and thoroughly sympathetic. Fifth, with the professional but dedicated playing of the SWR Radio-sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and the committed singing of the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Holliger has a wonderful group of musicians to work with. Sixth, with Hänssler's full, deep, rich sound, Koechlin, Banse, Holliger, and the Stuttgart musicians are represented in a recording that does them all justice. For those who know and love the orchestral songs of Debussy, Ravel, and Chausson, these songs by Koechlin will provide hours of pleasure. © TiVo
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David & Jonathas

Gaétan Jarry

Classical - Released June 9, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Fauré: Requiem - Poulenc: Figure Humaine - Debussy: 3 Chansons

Mathieu Romano

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released March 1, 2019 | Aparté

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Fauré's Requiem, “funeral lullaby” written for enjoyment as the composer put it, has a unique place in history. It's soft, simple and modest poetry conveys moments of gentle contemplation and moving expressiveness which are entrusted to both the choir and the two soloists. With his Ensemble Aedes and the orchestra Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano is committed to render a Requiem faithful to its first performance. We hear thus the score in its original 1893 orchestration, where the organ plays a great role, and where Latin is pronounced in the French way as it used to be. The clearest articulation of the Ensemble Aedes then perfectly fits Éluard’s Figure humaine set to music by Francis Poulenc. We have never heard these sublime poems sung with such intelligibility before! Finally, the three Songs by Debussy elegantly close the album. Here again, the quality and clarity of the voices are stunning. Artistic director and founder of Ensemble Aedes has established himself as a magician of voices in a cappella scores. And voices ideally melt with the strings of Les Siècles under his baton. A 100% French cast in a 100% French music disc for a triple rediscovery. Essential! © Aparté
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Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde

Paul Daniel

Opera - Released September 22, 2023 | Opera Rara

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The Opera Rara label and company, true to their name, resurrect forgotten operas. There is an abundance of those in the output of Jacques Offenbach, who wrote some 100 operettas and opéras bouffes, few of which are remembered today. Opera Rara made a good pick with La Princesse de Trébizonde (1869), and this release made classical best-seller charts in the autumn of 2023. Offenbach is as full of good, Arthur Sullivan-like tunes as ever, and he even discarded a number of them from the operetta's original production in Baden-Baden in the process of preparing a new version for Paris. Those discarded pieces are included here, and there could hardly be a better testimony to Offenbach's melodic fecundity. Better still is the action, taking place in a carnival sideshow and suggesting all kinds of ideas for a production set in modern times. It is gloriously preposterous even by operetta standards. A girl, Zanetta, accidentally breaks the nose off a wax figure of the Princess of Trébizonde and agrees to stand in for the figure herself. A prince (a pants role) -- who has dropped a lottery ticket into the till in lieu of paying admission -- falls in love with the "Princess." Meanwhile, the lottery ticket, with a castle as the prize, comes up a winner and overturns the relationships between rich and poor. The comic scenes thus spawned are handled with the needed high spirits by the cast and the several choruses (executed by Opera Rara's remarkable house chorus), and conductor Paul Daniel is ideal in this genre, consistently pushing the tempo just slightly in order to bring the forward momentum. This recording is based on a 2022 London production but is a "cast recording," not a live one, and it is quite clear sonically. La Princesse de Trébizonde has been recorded only twice before, once in Russian (!) and once for French radio in 1966; this sprightly performance is much needed.© James Manheim /TiVo
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La fabuleuse histoire de Mister Swing

Michel Jonasz

French Music - Released April 29, 1988 | MJM - ADA France

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Messiaen : Quatuor pour la fin du Temps

Raphaël Sévère

Quartets - Released November 30, 2018 | Mirare

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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Murail: Stalag VIIIa

Het Collectief

Classical - Released November 17, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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There is no shortage of recordings for Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps, one of the undisputed masterpieces of 20th century music. The work, composed for the musicians and instruments Messiaen had at hand in a German concentration camp, is bold enough in its conception to stand up to less-than-ideal performances, but the small ensemble Het Collectief also shows what can be accomplished with a detailed, careful, and indeed, quite virtuosic one. The work's title might be heard two ways; one may take at face value Messiaen's references to the Apocalypse, but "the end of time" may also, in view of Messiaen's experiments with rhythm and timbre in the work, be given a musical meaning. It is not a particularly experimental piece harmonically, but its disruptive treatment of rhythm was profoundly influential. The critic Olivia Giovetti has written that the captures "at once the breadth of the end times as prophesied in the Book of Revelation and the intimate, miniature detail that Messiaen introduces into the composition." Het Collectief's performance is dispassionate, careful, and extremely detailed. Anyone looking for apocalyptic shivers can find them elsewhere, but there is much to ponder and consider here on repeated hearing. Het Collectief does well with its choice of introductory work, Stalag VIIIa (the title refers to the camp at Görlitz where Messiaen was held), by the spectral composer Tristan Murail, which primes the listener to listen for textural and rhythmic detail in Messiaen's work as much as to its harmonic surface. This is a major Messiaen release that should be heard by anyone engaged with the composer.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Tubes et pépites

Richard Gotainer

French Music - Released December 6, 2019 | Gatkess

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Des bordées de mots

Lynda Lemay

French Music - Released June 16, 2023 | 2023 Les Productions Hallynda Inc.

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VIXI Tour XVII

Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

French Music - Released April 1, 2016 | Columbia

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Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Classical - Released April 1, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with Alpha Classics and here invite the Maîtrise and Chœur de Radio France to join them in a Debussy programme. This recording couples La Damoiselle élue, a work described by the composer as a "little oratorio in a mystical and somewhat pagan vein", the Nocturnes for orchestra, composed between 1897 and 1899, and the Symphonic Fragments from Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien fashioned by André Caplet less than a year after the work’s first performance, and which ensured it would not be forgotten by posterity. © Alpha Classics
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Messiaen : L'œuvre pour orgue, Vol. 1

Louis Thiry

Classical - Released March 1, 1972 | La Dolce Volta

Booklet Distinctions Diapason d'or - 4F de Télérama - Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros - Choc de Classica
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Origine

Yuston XIII

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released February 17, 2023 | Les Arcanes de l'ombre

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Chansons de rappel - Maxime Le Forestier chante Brassens

Maxime Le Forestier

French Music - Released October 22, 2021 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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