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Ophélie Gaillard, Pulcinella Orchestra

Classical - Released by Aparté on 4 Mar 2022

In the 1730s, many composers tried their luck in London, where many other treasures were in preparation: Geminiani revolutionized instrumental writing ...

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Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

Opera - Released by Aparté on 14 Oct 2022

Composed on 1686 as part of the festivities organised by the Duc de Vendôme in honour of the Grand Dauphin, during the latter’s visit to his estate at ...

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Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës

Mélodies - Released by Aparté on 13 May 2022

From Papillon et la fleur to L’Horizon chimérique, Gabriel Fauré has created some one-hundred melodies which have transformed this French art form int ...

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Christophe Rousset

Classical - Released by Aparté on 17 Sep 2021

This manuscript, from Christophe Rousset’s private collection, was discovered by him in 2004. Property of Madame de Théobon, one of Louis XIV’s mistre ...

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Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz

Classical - Released by Aparté on 12 Nov 2021

Italy. Home to the spicy arrabiata pasta sauce made with tomatoes and dried chillis, and also home to fierily explosive baroque music. I’m not entirel ...

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Morphing Chamber Orchestra, Aleksandra Kurzak, Andreas Scholl, Roberto Alagna, Tomasz Wabnic

Minimal Music - Released by Aparté on 28 Oct 2022

Arvo Pärt is one of the greatest and most performed of living composers. Slow and meditative, often religious, reflecting his mystical experiences, Pä ...

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Marina Viotti, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

Opera - Released by Aparté on 16 Sep 2022

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques make a foray into the Romantic repertoire with this tribute to Pauline Viardot, who was not only the most i ...

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Thibault Noally, Les Accents

Classical - Released by Aparté on 15 Apr 2022

Transcriptions for string sextet of Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concerts of 1741, the Concerts en sextuor were published by Saint-Saëns in the monu ...

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Elsa Grether, David Lively

Classical - Released by Aparté on 9 Sep 2022

In 1928 Maurice Ravel described the violin and the piano as “essentially incompatible”. Yet by then he had already composed for those instruments two ...

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Cyrille Dubois, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques

Classical - Released by Aparté on 18 Nov 2022

The Aparté label always strives to include a rare level of precision in its librettos. The accompanying texts are brimming with precious information o ...

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Les Argonautes, Jonas Descotte

Opera - Released by Aparté on 30 Sep 2022

It was at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (where he studied with Nathalie Stutzmann) that countertenor Jonas Descotte founded Les Argonautes, an ...

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Zefira Valova, Il Pomo D'oro

Concertos - Released by Aparté on 3 Jun 2022

il pomo d'oro and Zefira Valova focus here on the little-known violin concertos of the second half of the eighteenth century. Bringing together the wo ...

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Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg

Symphonies - Released by Aparté on 26 Aug 2022

1773 was a key year for orchestral music. Mozart composed his “little G minor Symphony”, no. 25, and began work on the music for the play Thamos, Köni ...

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Maxim Emelyanychev, Aylen Pritchin

Classical - Released by Aparté on 3 Dec 2021

Played with perfect complicity, on period instruments, by Aylen Pritchin (violin, First Prize of the 2014 Long-Thibaud Competition) and Maxim Emelyany ...

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Thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe

Music by vocal ensembles - Released by Aparté on 27 Aug 2021

Josquin Desprez, icon of pop culture? Josquin was one of the greatest composers of his time, the author of sacred and secular music and works for cour ...

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Hortense Cartier-Bresson

Classical - Released by Aparté on 11 Feb 2022

"There is a link between the style of the early masters and that of the innovators" asserted Schoenberg. The program of this recording seeks to prove ...

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Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset, Choeur de Chambre de Namur

Classical - Released by Aparté on 11 Jun 2021

Lully's Ballet royal de la Naissance de Vénus was written in 1665 when Lully and his patron, King Louis XIV of France, were at the height of their pow ...

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Novus Quartet

Quartets - Released by Aparté on 21 Jan 2022

Flawless technique, impeccable balance, and a luminously clear-toned and supremely elegant, slender sound. These are the qualities we’ve come to antic ...

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Giulio Biddau

Classical - Released by Aparté on 28 Jan 2022

Editions of Domenico Scarlatti’s almost 600 keyboard sonatas were for a long time based on uncertain sources. The resulting editorial confusion gave r ...

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Pablo Barragán, Sophie Pacini

Classical - Released by Aparté on 14 Jan 2022

Boundless: that’s how one might describe these sonatas by Prokofiev, Weinberg, Bernstein and Poulenc. All of them, except the one by Poulenc, were com ...

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Gottfried von der Goltz, Annekatrin Beller, Torsten Johann

Classical - Released by Aparté on 11 Mar 2022

Johann Sebastian Bach appears to have had a lifelong interest in chamber music. He was the son of a musician and the father of a large family: playing ...

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