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Mlah
Les Négresses Vertes
Rock - Released December 1, 1991 | Because Music
Americans who are finally getting used to the idea of their own country as multicultural are often surprised to find that France is undergoing the same stresses and gaining the same musical benefits. Les Negresses Vertes is a magnificent example of the latter. This group's cultural roots are partly in Paris, partly in Algeria and Spain, with healthy amounts of influence from Nashville and urban America. To all these should be added the theatricality of circus music -- three of the original members had worked in the Zingaro Horse Circus in Southern France, while a fourth was a professional clown. The combination of all these influences is jazzy, street-smart, and very danceable. While some members of the band were less than virtuosos on their instruments, they made up for this deficiency by laying down a boisterous party groove backed by a propulsive brass section. The alternation between Noel Rota's fast and furious solo vocals and the ragged choruses provided by the rest of the band adds to the complex dynamic of the group. Add to this the fact that Rota had a real gift as a songwriter and arranger, and you have a hit machine in the making. Mlah got an excellent reception from critics in Britain and the U.S., and several tracks even managed to get airplay despite the American tendency to ignore anything not sung in English. It was a great start for the band, though it is arguable that they never again approached this level of entertainment.© Richard Foss /TiVo
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Händel: Rinaldo - The Sony Opera House
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Opera - Released January 1, 1977 | Sony Classical
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Sonates pour violon obligé et clavecin, BWV 1014-1019
Florence Malgoire
Classical - Released November 1, 2005 | Alpha Classics
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This is a highly subjective interpretation of Bach's often-performed set of six sonatas for violin and harpsichord, played on historical instruments. Swiss-based violinist Florence Malgoire renders Bach's violin lines almost without vibrato. Unlike other Baroque violinists who favor this sound, however, she keeps to a delicate attack in place of the usual muscular, meaty bowstrokes. Her phrasing has a sweeping quality that's oddly graceful, but sometimes she begins a phrase so subtly that Blandine Rannou's harpsichord seems to be the lead instrument, with the violin providing an accompaniment like that of an early Classical piano-and-violin sonata. Soon enough the balance shifts, but the effect is hardly idiomatic to Bach. The music always feels alive, however, and Malgoire and Rannou bring out plenty of unexpected details.Whether or not this unusual approach works may depend on the individual listener, but it also requires the acceptance of a certain way of looking at these sonatas, one laid out in the liner notes by Gilles Cantagrel. He stresses the probable chronological closeness of these sonatas with Bach's six unaccompanied partitas and sonatas for violin, works that fell into a long German virtuoso tradition in which a subjective performance style was entirely appropriate; Bach wrote all these works during the Cöthen portion of his career, the source of most of his instrumental ensemble music. This vision of the violin-and-keyboard sonatas conflicts with the one most listeners instinctively hold; the unaccompanied sonatas are usually thought of as music standing aside from the rest of Bach's output in an exalted realm of their own. In any event, there's a general trend toward sharp, tough performances of Bach's music for strings these days, sculpted as if out of a block of ice, and there's room for an interpretation that brings a light, almost fantastic touch while drawing on the same general ideas. Malgoire and Rannou are not for everybody, and sampling will help you determine whether you might be among those who would find them intriguing.© TiVo
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Neukomm : Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released January 13, 2017 | Alpha Classics
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In spite of the immense success he enjoyed in his lifetime, Sigismund Neukomm (born in Salzburg in 1778, died in Paris in 1858 at the age of eighty) is practically forgotten nowadays. Yet he left a catalogue of nearly two thousand works, including fifty masses and a number of oratorios and motets. Neukomm spent twenty years in the service of Prince Talleyrand, who commissioned him to write a Requiem Mass in memory of Louis XVI, guillotined in Paris on 21 January 1793. This was the second mass of the fifty he was eventually to compose, several of which were dedicated to monarchs. The Requiem was given at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna on 21 January 1815 by more than three hundred singers divided into two choirs. Neukomm conducted one of them, while the other was directed by his friend Salieri. As part of their joint series of recordings, the Château de Versailles and Alpha continue their rediscovery of repertory that has marked the history of France and of music. Here Jean-Claude Malgoire conducts this unpublished Requiem. This is the first appearance in the Alpha catalogue of this pioneering figure from the golden age of the exploration of Baroque performing practice.
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Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre : Sonates pour violon
Florence Malgoire
Classical - Released January 6, 2011 | Ricercar
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Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, who lived from 1665 to 1729, was a female composer at a time when there were few of them, and the fact that her fans included Louis XIV probably preserved her career. It's a good thing, for her music is worthwhile on its own terms, and this release from the apparently multinational group Les Dominos (no biographical material is included) is a reasonable introduction to her style. These sonatas for violin and a relatively rich continuo group are a fascinating mixture of the Italian sonata, which was not a terribly common item in France in 1707, and the French suite. With numbers of movements ranging from four to eight, in irregular sequences, they mostly avoid dance rhythms. In many ways they're quite contemporary, but in the slow movements there's a certain gravity and inwardness that looks back to the French chamber music of the late 17th century. The entire program has a delightful quality of surprise that is well captured by violinist Florence Malgoire, although one could wish for a lighter quality in the slow movements and a bit less insistence on the vibrato-free quality of Baroque instruments overall. The unpleasant and inappropriate church sonics detract from the overall enjoyment, but recordings of Jacquet de la Guerre's music are not abundant, and this one is a worthwhile addition to the corpus.© TiVo
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Sweete Musicke of Sundrie Kindes
Robert Mallorie
Classical - Released December 19, 2014 | Lindoro
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Rameau: Les Indes galantes
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released January 1, 1974 | Sony Classical
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
James Bowman, Guillemette Laurens, Eirian James, Jean-Claude Magloire, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy
Opera - Released January 1, 1995 | naïve classique
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Mozart: Horn Concerti
Dale Clevenger, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, János Rolla, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released September 23, 1996 | Sony Classical
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Lully: Alceste ou le triomphe d'Alcide
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Opera - Released January 1, 1994 | naïve classique
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Campra - Requiem & Miserere
Dominique Visse/Gilles Ragon/Peter Harvey/Les Pages de la Chapelle/Olivier Schneebeli/La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy/Jean-Claude Malgoire
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released January 1, 1998 | Warner Classics
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Händel: Tamerlano - The Sony Opera House
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released February 14, 1997 | Sony Classical
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Jean-Claude Malgoire Jubilé – Le Tourdion (K617)
La Grande Écurie et La Chambre Du Roy
Classical - Released July 5, 2019 | Phaia Music
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George Frideric Handel: Concerti grossi opp. 3 & 6
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released January 1, 1976 | Sony Classical
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Händel: Serse - The Sony Opera House
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released January 1, 1979 | Sony Classical
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 Arranged by Mozart
Choeur de Chambre de Namur, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
Opera - Released April 1, 2003 | naïve
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Händel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music Suite 1-3 - Sony Classical Masters
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released January 1, 1974 | Sony Classical
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Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV. 153
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Sony Classical
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Genève au siècle des Lumières
Florence Malgoire
Classical - Released November 24, 2017 | Claves Records
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Following the Protestant Reform of the 16th century, Geneva became a recognized intellectual and religious centre. Attracting an important community of foreign nobility, the city did not stray from European artistic trends. As from the middle of the 17th century, Genevese amateurs, travelers and aristocrats congregated in "music concerts”. During one of these, it was decided in 1717 to found a concert society that would have at its disposal a hall in the Town Hall where, for over a century, Genevese musicians and passing artists would perform. The city could now count on an orchestra, imperative for the interpretation of the contemporary repertoire. Far from limiting itself to patrician salons, musical practice spread amongst the middle class and the world of well-to-do artisans, offering work opportunities to music masters, instrument makers, even music engravers. Geneva’s geographical situation as well as its prosperity account for the visit of well-known international musicians who found here an opportunity to play and teach. Coming from various countries and cultures, these musicians contributed to the development of a flourishing musical life in Geneva on par with the great European stylistic trends. Gaspard Fritz (1716-1783) is the most famous of the Genevese musicians. Between 1742 and 1772 he published, in Geneva, Paris and London, five volumes of sonatas and symphonies which, endorsed by Locatelli and Handel, earned him international fame. Nicolas Scherrer (1747-1821) came from a family of musicians that were particularly active in Genevese musical life in the 18th century: his father was the renowned organ factor Samson Scherrer, his brother Jean-Jacques was, like himself, composer, music master and organist; as for his sister Suzanne, she ran a music engraving workshop. Friedrich Schwindl (1737-1786) was probably born in Amsterdam, but lived in Geneva between 1773 and 1778, being extremely active as music master, composer and performer. He is mostly known for his symphonies, several of which were performed in the “Concerts Spirituels” in Paris. These works show great refinement and embrace the musical aesthetics of the period bridging Baroque and Classicism. © SM/Qobuz
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 212a; Violin Concerto in C Major, RV 581
John Holloway, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Piero Toso, Claudio Scimone
Classical - Released January 1, 1973 | Sony Classical
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