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Vivaldi: Les Quatre Saisons

Fabio Biondi

Classical - Released September 3, 2007 | naïve

Saint-Saëns: Études, Op. 52 & 111

François-René Duchable

Classical - Released January 1, 1981 | Warner Classics

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Vivaldi

Les Violons du Roy

Classical - Released March 1, 2016 | ATMA Classique

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This album from the Quebec City Baroque group Les Violons du Roy is titled simply Vivaldi. You don't get quite the range implied; the program consists mostly of concertos with one instrumental sinfonia from an opera. But it is a delightfully diverse set, including big Handelian outdoor-oriented pieces with horns; pastoral concertos for multiple winds; and intricate, multiple-violin pieces including a lithe reading of the familiar Concerto for four violins, strings, and continuo, Op. 3, No. 10 (RV 580). Les Violons du Roy, under their longtime assistant conductor Mathieu Lussier, eschew the high-octane approach of contemporary Italian groups, and one can wish for the syncopations to rock a bit more when they are essential to the structure of a movement. But the group is quick and holds together well. Sample the little-played, three-movement Sinfonia from the opera La verità in cimento (tracks 17-19): the opening movement is a study in register and dynamics of which the total serialists would have been proud; the slow movement opens like a flower; and the miniature finale is over before you know it. The orchestra's energy never flags here or anywhere else, and the result is a very fresh album of Vivaldi concertos that will appeal even to those with lots of shelf or hard drive space already allotted to the composer.© TiVo
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37ème Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron

Iddo Bar-Shaï

Classical - Released July 14, 2017 | Mirare

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Passions de l'âme et du cœur

Ricercar Consort

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Mirare

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La Folle Journée 2016 - La Nature

Orchestre d'Auvergne

Classical - Released January 22, 2016 | Mirare

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Edvard Grieg : Concerto pour piano, Pièces lyriques (extraits)

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released January 31, 2007 | Mirare

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J'écoute Bach et Haendel avec ma maman

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released December 3, 2012 | Mirare

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Francis Poulenc : Concerto champêtre - Concerto pour orgue - Aubade - Les Biches...

Francis Poulenc

Classical - Released July 3, 2009 | Warner Classics

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Antonio Vivaldi: Les quatre saisons

Jacques Gandard

Classical - Released March 2, 2019 | Bion Records

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Guitares romantiques

Duo Odelia

Classical - Released June 9, 2023 | Duo Odélia

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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni - Rebel: Les Eléments

Midori Seiler

Classical - Released February 9, 2010 | harmonia mundi

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Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni

Rinaldo Alessandrini

Classical - Released January 14, 2003 | naïve

Baroqueswing Vol. I

Charl du Plessis Trio

Classical - Released December 15, 2017 | Claves Records

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Récit

Salomé Gasselin

Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | Mirare

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Antonio Vivaldi : Les quatre saisons

Fabio Biondi

Chamber Music - Released November 15, 1991 | naïve classique

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Enfers

Raphaël Pichon

Opera Extracts - Released February 23, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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With his ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon has written the listing for this album in the form of a "pastiche" of a Mass for the Dead, a Requiem both sacred and profane. While it is a long way from having all the defining traits, it does possess all the outlines: Introit, Kyrie, Gradual, Sequence, Offertory, In Paradisum... The idea came about after a recent discovery, in the Bibliothèque Nationale of an anonymous requiem mass from the 18th century, in which the writer constructed a "parody" based on musical extracts from Castor and Pollux and the Fêtes de Paphos by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Note that the term "parody" doesn't necessarily imply satire or mockery: it refers to the practice of taking up older music and setting new words to it. This fusion of sacred music (the mass) and profane music (lyrical tragedy), a common practice during the Enlightenment, was a procedure that Pichon wanted to take up. In French society at the time, when Catholicism was the norm, where the political system was monarchical rule by divine right, the representation of ancient pagan Hell on theatrical stages seemed to betray a fascination in the beliefs of the ancients. And so this programme melds together pagan fable with a Christian imaginary, where Hell takes on different faces. It is the place of unjust and eternal torment, a place of privation where a couple is separated, one half kept in Hades. But, in the lyrical tragedy, Hell is also a place of perdition: obscure forces unleashed in Sabbath rites, a Satanic vision which unearths the darkest depths of the human soul... Stéphane Degout is the author of this tragedy, bringing together such varied characters as Phaedra, Pluto, and the Parcae. The composers whose music is put to use are Rameau and Gluck, with a single borrowing from Rebel: it would have been a shame not to mention his singular Chaos (taken from Éléments), which starts with a dissonant chord containing the seven notes of the scale of D minor. © SM/Qobuz