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Thalberg: Piano Works

Francesco Nicolosi

Classical - Released May 14, 2021 | Naxos

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Meeting my Shadow

Giorgi Gigashvili

Classical - Released April 28, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31

Herbert von Karajan

Classical - Released January 1, 1964 | Sony Classical

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Live)

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Opera - Released October 12, 2018 | Orfeo

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Saint-Saëns : Le Carnaval des animaux - Concerto pour piano No. 2 - Havanaise, Le rouet d'Omphale - Danse macabre... (Diapason n°610)

Igor Markevitch

Classical - Released October 28, 2011 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Ravel: Complete Instrumental Chamber Works

Ensemble Sésame

Chamber Music - Released November 4, 2022 | NoMadMusic

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Ravel is as fascinating as mysterious: as an absolute music genius and an idealist, he draws his inspiration from his origins and mixes his original accents with the dreamy and the exotic like an alchemist. By exploring all of his compositions for instrumental chamber music, this album by Ensemble Sésame aims to reflect his endless orchestral colors, nuancing sometimes lively and rhythmic flavours and sometimes sweet and spicy. © NoMadMusic
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Camille Saint-Saëns: Phryné

Hervé Niquet

Opera - Released February 11, 2022 | Bru Zane

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Everyone knows Camille Saint-Saëns has a great sense of humour thanks to his Carnaval des Animaux in which no one escapes ridicule, not even him. Now the Palazzetto Bru Zane Foundation and Hervé Niquet have unearthed Phryné, a forgotten comic opera from 1893 enriched with recitatives composed by André Messager three years later.Received with immense and lasting success in its time, this brilliant work eventually fell into the abyss, never to be seen again. Fortunately, fans of Saint-Saëns made great efforts to rediscover his works on the centenary of his death in 2021. Phryné captures the "Grecomania" that was prevalent in all the arts in France at this time, especially in Offenbach’s music and even in architecture (just think of the beautiful Parisian district of New Athens in the 9th arrondissement). Ironically, and perhaps a little cheekily, Saint-Saens confessed that he was “working on this little piece with infinite pleasure” and was infatuated with this courtesan musician who had served as a model for the sculptor Praxitele.Always keen to discover a forgotten repertoire, Hervé Niquet brought together a few singers, Florie Valiquette, Cyrille Dubois, Anaïs Constans and Thomas Dolié, to breathe some life back into Phryné with his Concert Spirituel, with the aim of producing a concert version to be performed in the Opéra de Rouen Normandie in 2021. Though Lucien Augé’s libretto may seem tasteless today with its hefty dose of misogyny, Saint-Saens’ music is simply delicious, with a succession of arias and ensembles. This modest and charming opera-comedy, which Charles Gounod so enjoyed, offers a less serious and less academic take of a composer that well and truly deserves to be rediscovered. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Rossini: The Barber of Seville

Erich Leinsdorf

Classical - Released March 31, 1997 | Living Stereo

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Le Siège de Corinthe (Intégrale)

Lorenzo Regazzo

Opera - Released June 3, 2013 | Naxos

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Tchaïkovsky: Le Lac des Cygnes (Les Etoiles du Bolchoï)

L'Orchestre National du Bolchoï

Classical - Released November 21, 2005 | Via Classic

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La Flûte Enchantée

Hervé Niquet

Classical - Released April 23, 2021 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Poulenc : Concertos pour piano & 2 pianos - Aubade

Eric Le Sage

Concertos - Released January 15, 2004 | RCA Red Seal

You can hear right away why Francis Poulenc was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's favorite living composer. The elegantly light touch, the delicately ironic affection, the subtly affecting coolness: Poulenc was what she would have been had she been a melody and not the wife of an unfaithful husband who was also the President of the United States. In this brightly sparkling disc by pianists Frank Braley and Eric le Sage, with conductor Stéphane Denève directing the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège of the Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre, the Concerto pour piano et orchestra, and the Aubade pour piano et orchestra, one hears the sophisticated charm, the insouciant wit, the unexpected intimacy, and the ineffable warmth of Poulenc's music at its most dryly moving. The sound RCA and at least five corporate partners have wrapped the performances in is clear, soft, and round. A strangely touching tribute to a marvelous composer.© TiVo
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Simon Rattle Conducts Ravel

Sir Simon Rattle

Classical - Released April 29, 2022 | Warner Classics

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Chopin

Anne Gastinel

Classical - Released October 8, 2021 | naïve

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Other than the piano, there were few instruments on which Chopin focused his attention, which makes this album featuring cellist Anne Gastinel something of a rarity. Their united voice – as always, remote from the chorus of the mundane and the media-fixated – is a subtle, inspired cantilena. For here it is all about the singing voice that Chopin declared to be his model, overtly influenced as he was by Italian bel canto opera. Anne Gastinel savours every moment, not only with the sense of refinement she shares with the greatest singers, but with a palpable musical breathing, sensitively illuminated at the piano by Claire Désert, an accompanist in the very noblest tradition. Bel canto – the very words conjure up the idea of virtuosity, technical challenge. Chopin’s Sonata for Cello and Piano is all of that: an intense and extensive masterwork, its Largo one of the most beautiful elegies ever written, while its fast outer movements are a veritable tournament of skill between the two performers. The Sonata forms the keystone of this programme, in which the cello is decked out in all the finery cellists love to display: it includes the Introduction and Polonaise brillante in the arrangement by Maurice Gendron, where, as Anne Gastinel puts it, "the two soloists have an equal share in the virtuosity", also two of Chopin’s Nocturnes arranged by David Popper (Op. 9 No. 2 in E-flat major) and Gregor Piatigorsky (No. 20 in C-sharp minor), and finally the Grand Duo concertant, a work jointly composed by Chopin and his cellist friend Auguste Franchomme. Anne Gastinel here moves light-footedly through the piece, her voice always gentle, artless, never forced. Such confidence in a hushed tone of intimacy speaks volumes to the ear, as it listens between the lines, between the notes. © naive classique
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Johann & Josef Strauss : Valses célèbres - Rossini: Ouvertures - Mendelssohn : Les Hébrides (Diapason n°574)

Fritz Reiner

Classical - Released February 25, 2009 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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HUMMEL: L'Enchantement d'Oberon / Le Retour de Londres / Piano Concerto in A major

Howard Shelley

Keyboard Concertos - Released March 1, 2006 | Chandos

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Let's say you really like Beethoven and Schubert and Weber and the whole late-Enlightenment-early-Romantic German style period but you haven't heard anything by Johann Nepomunk Hummel and you'd like to know where to start. By all means, start here. Not only does the disc have Hummel's ‘greatest hit' -- his stormy A minor Piano Concerto -- and Hummel's ‘novelty hit' -- his hilarious "O du lieber Augustin" Variations -- but it's got his barely known but still highly characteristic L'Enchantment d'Oberon and his heretofore unrecorded but also highly characteristic Le Retour à Londres. And not only does it have the supremely virtuostic Howard Shelley at the keyboard, it also has him directing the superbly skilled London Mozart Players -- a combination which brings out the best in both of them, that is, a certain amount of restraint on Shelley's phenomenal digital prowess and a certain amount of freedom for the LMP's wonderful musicality. If you like Beethoven in a tempestuous mood, you'll probably like Hummel's furious A minor Concerto. If you like Schubert in a sunny mood, you'll probably like Hummel's smiling "Augustin" Variations. And if you like Weber in a dramatic mood, you'll probably like Hummel's just this side of histrionic L'Enchntment d'Oberon and Le Retour á Londres. And if you like Hummel at all, Chandos' richly detailed and marvelously evocative sound will certainly enhance your musical experience.© TiVo
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Opera Extracts : La Wally, Tosca, La Traviata...

Maria Callas

Pop - Released January 1, 2007 | Jade

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Gounod: Faust, CG 4 (1864 Version)

Rijeka Opera Symphony Orchestra

Opera - Released June 14, 2019 | Naxos

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The international success of after its premiere in 1859 completely overshadowed all of Gounod’s subsequent operas. He had known Goethe’s masterpiece for two decades and brought to the text his gifts for memorable melody and rich orchestration. Added to this, the plot of Faust’s ageing and the heroine Marguerite’s redemption, offered the opportunity for the most spectacular stage effects. Heard here in its 1864 London version with an additional air and without spoken dialogue or ballet, Faust represents 19th-century French opera at its peak. © Naxos
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Halévy : La Reine de Chypre

Hervé Niquet

Full Operas - Released May 11, 2018 | Bru Zane

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We'll admit: this Reine de Chypre by Fromental Halévy is probably not the unfairly-overlooked work of commanding genius for which the lyrical world has been waiting for fifty years… But it would still be a shame to miss it, especially when performed by such a line-up, with Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois and Etienne Dupuis at the top of the bill. And after all, the score is full of vocal marvels and very original ensembles; but it is rather in the orchestration – which is not much more adventurous than that of any other piece of Italian bel canto of the era – that Halévy has taken it easy. The melodic richness was pointed out in an article in the Revue et gazette musicale in April 1842: "In the Reine de Chypre, Halévy's new style is on display with more dash, and more success. I have had occasion to point out the preconditions, as I see them, of the production of a good opera, by pointing out the obstacles which stand in the way of meeting these conditions fully and in good time, whether by the poet or the composer. When these conditions are met, it is an event of great importance for the world of art. Now, in the present case, circumstances have conspired in the performance of a work which, as even the most exacting critic must admit, possesses all the qualities which constitute a good opera. (…) The composer has put all the enchantment of his art into the duet that breathes the sentiments that enrapture them. The dark cloth on which these two charming figures are drawn shows through even in those songs which are so sparkling and alive with happiness, like a sinister cloud, and lends them a particular character of melancholy intrigue. There is no equal, in nobility or in grace, of the magnificent melody of the final part of this duet." The article continues in this vein. The byline? One Richard Wagner… © SM/Qobuz