Anne Bertin Hugault, Marianne Croux Rita Strohl Douze Chants de Bilitis

Julian Prégardien, Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Gwendoline Blondeel, Vlad Crosman, Cyril Auvity, Marie Perbost, Paul Figuier, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Eva Zaïcik, Luigi De Donato, Julian Prégardien, Les Épopées & Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 118:26 minutes | 2,12 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download

In 1607, Claudio Monteverdi premiered his Orfeo for the Carnival opening in the Court theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in the history of music, real characters are brought to life with deeply moving human feelings: with this exceptional dramatic power, modern opera in born. Stéphane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and its historical instrumentation, after Le Retour d’Ulysse dans sa Patrie, has brought together some of the finest vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he has entrusted the eponymous role to the splendid and sensitive Julian Prégardien, to sing all the magnificence of the first true hero in the history of opera.
Julian Prégardien, Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Gwendoline Blondeel, Vlad Crosman, Cyril Auvity, Marie Perbost, Paul Figuier, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Eva Zaïcik, Luigi De Donato, Julian Prégardien, Les Épopées & Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 118:26 minutes | 2,12 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download

In 1607, Claudio Monteverdi premiered his Orfeo for the Carnival opening in the Court theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in the history of music, real characters are brought to life with deeply moving human feelings: with this exceptional dramatic power, modern opera in born. Stéphane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and its historical instrumentation, after Le Retour d’Ulysse dans sa Patrie, has brought together some of the finest vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he has entrusted the eponymous role to the splendid and sensitive Julian Prégardien, to sing all the magnificence of the first true hero in the history of opera.
Julian Prégardien, Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Gwendoline Blondeel, Vlad Crosman, Cyril Auvity, Marie Perbost, Paul Figuier, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Eva Zaïcik, Luigi De Donato, Julian Prégardien, Les Épopées & Stéphane Fuget - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 118:26 minutes | 2,12 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download

In 1607, Claudio Monteverdi premiered his Orfeo for the Carnival opening in the Court theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in the history of music, real characters are brought to life with deeply moving human feelings: with this exceptional dramatic power, modern opera in born. Stéphane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and its historical instrumentation, after Le Retour d’Ulysse dans sa Patrie, has brought together some of the finest vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he has entrusted the eponymous role to the splendid and sensitive Julian Prégardien, to sing all the magnificence of the first true hero in the history of opera.
Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)

Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 79:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | 9029576897 | Recorded: 2017

Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa and pianist Fazıl Say share some tantalising, captivating and sensuous Secrets in this album of songs, centred on Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis, Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Fazıl Say’s own Gezi Park 3 – which he and Crebassa premiered in 2014. Describing the recording sessions, Marianne Crebassa says: “Sometimes we worked in a kind of trance … there were some moments when nothing seemed to exist around us …”
Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Georges Bizet: Les Pecheurs de perles (2018)

Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Georges Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 464 Mb | Total time: 109:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC 5186 685 | Recorded: 2017

Les Pêcheurs de Perles is best known for its glorious duet, but Georges Bizet’s opera has much more to offer. This live recording more than ever brings out the brilliance of this oriental story about love, duty and friendship. In the last 150 years, Bizet’s piece has mainly been heard in editions that stray from the composer’s original composition. This album – on the contrary - offers the first recording in history of the 1863 premiere version, reconstructed and published by Bärenreiter in 2015. Les Pêcheurs de perles contains a quintessentially French blend of lyricism, exoticism and drama, and the four soloists (Julie Fuchs as Leïla, Cyrille Dubois as Nadir, Florian Sempey as Zurga and Luc Bertin-Hugault as Nourabad) belong to today’s best performers for this specialist repertoire.
Edgar Moreau & David Kadouch - Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Edgar Moreau & David Kadouch - Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 95:19 minutes | 1.52 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist David Kadouch have some pleasurable surprises in store with this programme of French sonatas from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The composers are Franck, Poulenc and two little-known figures, Rita Strohl and Fernand de La Tombelle. Forming an adjunct to the programme is the world premiere recording of a piece by Poulenc, titled Souvenirs and written in 1944. As the French magazine Télérama has written: „Both known as outstanding soloists, David Kadouch and Edgar Moreau also form a close-knit, well-balanced chamber duo, playing with passion and commitment.“
Sandra Lied Haga - Rita Strohl - Great Dramatic Sonata -Titus et Bérénice - for Cello and Piano (2023) [24/192]

Sandra Lied Haga - Rita Strohl - Great Dramatic Sonata -Titus et Bérénice- for Cello and Piano (2023) [24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 65:31 minutes | 2,31 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Moving music from 19th century France with Sandra Lied Haga and Katya Apekisheva.
Edgar Moreau & David Kadouch - Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas (2018)

Edgar Moreau & David Kadouch - Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 385 MB
Label: Warner Classics | Tracks: 14 | Time: 95:19 min

Cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist David Kadouch have some pleasurable surprises in store with this programme of French sonatas from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The composers are Franck, Poulenc and two little-known figures, Rita Strohl and Fernand de La Tombelle. Forming an adjunct to the programme is the world premiere recording of a piece by Poulenc, titled Souvenirs and written in 1944. As the French magazine Télérama has written: „Both known as outstanding soloists, David Kadouch and Edgar Moreau also form a close-knit, well-balanced chamber duo, playing with passion and commitment.“
Sandra Lied Haga & Katya Apekisheva - Rita Strohl - César Franck (2023)

Sandra Lied Haga & Katya Apekisheva - Rita Strohl: Great Dramatic Sonata "Titus et Bérénice" for Cello and Piano - César Franck: Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 154 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:05:33
Classical | Label: Simax Classics

Moving music from 19th century France with Sandra Lied Haga and Katya Apekisheva.
Edgar Moreau & David Kadouch - Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas (2018)

Edgar Moreau & David Kadouch - Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, d. booklet | 383 MB
Label: Erato – 0190295740627 | Tracks: 14 | Time: 95:22 min
Classical

Cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist David Kadouch have some pleasurable surprises in store with this programme of French sonatas from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The composers are Franck, Poulenc and two little-known figures, Rita Strohl and Fernand de La Tombelle. Forming an adjunct to the programme is the world premiere recording of a piece by Poulenc, titled Souvenirs and written in 1944. As the French magazine Télérama has written: „Both known as outstanding soloists, David Kadouch and Edgar Moreau also form a close-knit, well-balanced chamber duo, playing with passion and commitment.“