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Samson Francois - Le poete du piano (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 12, 2024
Samson Francois - Le poete du piano (2024)

Samson Francois - Le poete du piano (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:10:13 | 551 Mb
Genre: Classical

Samson François He travelled across the world of music like a meteor, a shooting star. Excessive in all things, he burned his candle at both ends. The cigarette forever on his lips was a symbol of the fire that burned within this man who had a passion for jazz and the shadowy world of the night. Born in 1924 in Frankfurt, to a French father and a glamorous Alsatian mother, he spent his childhood and adolescence being taken from town to town, this artistic soul was profoundly sensitive, a romantic with a fanciful streak, often unpredictable. An admirer of Arthur Rimbaud and André Breton, he shared a little of their fire. Samson François was a real performer: one for whom the phrase "inspiration" was more than a cliché. Whether in poetic mood or in a frenzy, he never left his listeners indifferent. He could even throw them off balance at concerts where nothing special happened: that is what a real creator can do, and François was one. Hemmed in within the limits of his keyboard, he had the imaginative range to be a composer, and he wrote the music for a film a Piano Concerto (which he also recorded), pieces for the piano and… lots of aborted projects. His favourite repertoire? Ravel, Debussy, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev, a choice which allowed him to express the extremes of his unstable and fascinating spirit.
François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles - Stravinsky: Ballets Russes (2021)

François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles - Stravinsky: Ballets Russes (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 568 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 297 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:09:05
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

Paris, early Twentieth Century: in the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionised the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with its insanely innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamised the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it to literally unheard-of places.

François Mardirossian - Satie et les Gymnopédistes (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 13, 2023
François Mardirossian - Satie et les Gymnopédistes (2023)

François Mardirossian - Satie et les Gymnopédistes (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 351 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 321 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:19:02
Classical | Label: Ad Vitam Records

Erik Satie is a beacon around which all kinds of musicians never cease to turn and marvel. And it’s been the case for more than 100 years. American minimalists (Glass, Reich, Adams, Riley, La Monte Young) today recognize in him a kind of spiritual father. Through this double-disc, I wanted to pay a tribute to him, through his works but also those of his friends, his followers and his heirs. I thus discovered new works never recorded (Cliquet-Pleyel, Mesens, Dortu, Fargeat) and also generated new compositions. My personal approach to sincerity also led me to choose, for the interpretation of his works, a piano that he could have known: a Blüthner from 1900. As a historically well-informed musician, the last track of the first disc, Je te veux, has been recorded on Pleyel droit from 1923, not very well tuned, with hazardous mechanics and a good cabaret taste. Here is a particular discographic object with very subjective musical choices. After three records dedicated to some American figures (Moondog, Glass and Hovhaness) I was dead set on showing how important Erik Satie was for a few musicians, and to illustrate how he is a tutelary and smiling figure of a contemporary musical movement open to side steps - let's call them minimalists or not, it doesn't matter. I have brought together all these figures under the term "gymnopedists".
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr - Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (2022)

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | Cover | 02:37:55 | 568,69 МБ
Classical, Opera | Label: harmonia mundi

Why has Pelléas et Mélisande taken its place as one of opera’s greatest masterpieces? Debussy deployed a unique style in this work, flexible and natural, never forcing the prosody of words and phrases. In this new historically informed interpretation, François-Xavier Roth has endeavoured to do justice to this music that is at once so strong and so delicate, seconded by a handpicked cast of today’s finest French singers.
François Mardirossian - Alan Hovhaness: Œuvres pour piano (2022)

François Mardirossian - Alan Hovhaness: Œuvres pour piano (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 209 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:15
Classical | Label: Ad Vitam Records

Few composers can boast of their music being performed during their lifetime by people like Serge Rachmaninov or Keith Jarrett. Even fewer could claim to be admired by Ornette Coleman, Philip Glass, Leopold Stokowski or Ravi Shankar, and to have had the support of John Cage himself or the great choreographer Martha Graham. The American composer Lou Harrison (also a friend) said "he was one of the greatest melodic writers of the 20th century". And yet Alan Hovhaness remains unknown in France.
L'Achéron & François Joubert-Caillet - Marais: Quatrième livre de pièces de viole (2021)

L'Achéron & François Joubert-Caillet - Marais: Quatrième livre de pièces de viole (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,2 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 528 Mb | 03:50:31
Classical | Label: Ricercar, Outhere Music

Marin Marais published his Quatrième Livre de Pièces de Viole two years after the death of Louis XIV, establishing himself as the undisputed master of the genre and providing pieces not only for musicians who had achieved some skill on the viol but also for the most virtuoso players. Here Marais reshaped the classical forms, altering the traditional sequence for the suites and making an increasing use of character pieces. The sometimes whimsical imagery and the new freedom of form that these pieces contain reach their peak in the astonishing Suitte d'un goût étranger; these thirty or so pieces employ as yet unheard-of keys and offer a multitude of characters and representations that can tend towards the exotic. Breaking further new ground, and somewhat influenced by the Italian trio, Marais ended the Quatrième Livre with two suites for three viols, a genre he claimed to be new to France.
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Accentus, Hélène Guilmette & Jodie Devos - Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d'argent (2020)

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Accentus, Hélène Guilmette & Jodie Devos - Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d'argent (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 666 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 342 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:27:26
Classical, Opera | Label: Bru Zane

Saint-Saëns's first opera, Le Timbre d'argent initially composed in 1864 need not fear comparison with some of the most celebrated works in the nineteenth-century French repertory. It depicts the nightmare of a man whose hallucinations anticipate by twenty years the fantastical apparitions of Offenbach's Les Contes d Hoffmann.
François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles - Stravinsky: Ballets Russes (2021) [Official Digital Download]

François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles - Stravinsky: Ballets Russes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 129:05 minutes | 1,2 GB
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Paris, early Twentieth Century: in the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionised the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with its insanely innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamised the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it to literally unheard-of places.
Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier - Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo (2024)

Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier - Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo (2024)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 229 MB | Cover | 57:52 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 135 MB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics

Cet album rend hommage à la compositrice Adèle Hugo (1830-1915), cinquième enfant de Victor, dont la vie fut tragique puisque, psychologiquement instable, elle passa la moitié de sa vie en maisons de santé, de ses quarante-deux ans jusqu’à sa mort à l’âge de quatre-vingt-cinq ans.

François Dumont - Clair de Lune (2024)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Nov. 20, 2024
François Dumont - Clair de Lune (2024)

François Dumont - Clair de Lune (2024)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Booklet) 135 MB | Cover | 54:22 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 126 MB
Classical, Instrumental | Label: La Musica

Debussy is one of the great masters of Impressionism, and his singularity goes far beyond this legitimate label. As a magician of colour, François Dumont does magnificent justice to the shimmering timbres of the composer's work, revealing the thousand faces of this elusive genius.