Les Seins de Glace Icy Breasts (1974)

Les Filles De Illighadad - At Pioneer Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Les Filles De Illighadad - At Pioneer Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 46:11 minutes | 851 MB
World, Desert Blues, Female Vocal | Label: Sahel Sounds, Official Digital Download

Les Filles are all from Illighadad, a secluded commune in central Niger, far off in the scrubland deserts at the edge of the Sahara. The village is only accessible via a grueling drive through the open desert and there is little infrastructure, no electricity or running water. But what the nomadic zone lacks in material wealth it makes up for deep and strong identity and tradition. The surrounding countryside support hundreds of pastoral families, living with and among their herds, as their families have done for centuries.
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Doux silence (2024)

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Doux silence (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:02:07 | 252 Mb
Genre: Classical

'The air de cour has been with me for almost as long as I've been playing the flute… For me, it is one of the finest creations of French art. I have assembled these airs from the second half\u0301 of the seventeenth century to complete the exploration begun with Et la fleur vole (early seventeenth century, ALPHA314) and A l'ombre d'un ormeau (early eighteenth century, ALPHA342)', says Francois Lazarevitch in the introduction to this new release. 'I am particularly interested in combining the qualities of sound and breathiness of the voice and the flute.'Love songs, dance tunes and brunettes on pastoral themes follow one another in a programme at once moving and erudite. These miniatures are magnificently interpreted by the two outstanding singers who join the instrumentalists (lute, flute, musette, harp, viol) of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien: the soprano Julie Roset and the mezzo Lucile Richardot.
Les Amis de Philippe - Johann Gottlieb Graun, Carl Heinrich Graun: Trios for 2 Violins & Basso (2009)

Les Amis de Philippe - Johann Gottlieb Graun, Carl Heinrich Graun: Trios for 2 Violins & Basso (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 383 Mb | Total time: 75:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777423-2 | Recorded: 2006

The present richly enjoyable CD contains five trios by Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich. In some areas of the brothers’ work it is near enough impossible to know who wrote what with any certainty – as Grove puts it “problems of attribution, chronology and biographical detail remain”. Manuscript attributions usually refer simply to ‘Graun’.
Les Chantres De Pharos - Za Križem: Chants glagolitiques pour la Semaine Sainte, Ile de Hvar, Croatie (2002)

Les Chantres De Pharos - Za Križem: Chants glagolitiques pour la Semaine Sainte, Ile de Hvar, Croatie (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 56:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arcana | A 318 | Recorded: 1999

First, a bit of geography. The island of Hvar is located off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, opposite the city of Split. Fairly narrow (5-11 km in width) and 89 kilometres long, it is renowned for its sunshine – a local hotel tradition offers free bed and board to any visitor who finds himself detained on account of snow or fog –, its limpid waters, some of the clearest in all of Europe, and the warm welcome of its inhabitants. The city of Hvar is the main city, but Stari Grad, owing to its ancient status as the island’s capital, has maintained an important role, perhaps more revealing of local habits and customs.
Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain - Schumann: Missa Sacra (2012)

Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain - Schumann: Missa Sacra (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 58:05 | 298 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Aparté | Catalog: AP044

There used to be a conventional wisdom that the music of Schumann's last years is not up to much, presumably on account of his mental illness. Perhaps the centrepiece of this prejudice is the fact that his 1853 Violin Concerto was rejected by Joachim, to whom it was dedicated, and was not included in the "complete" Schumann edition compiled by Brahms. It was not released to the public until 1934.
Lucille Richardot, Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Berio to Sing (2021)

Lucille Richardot, Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Berio to Sing (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 214 Mb | Total time: 58:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM902647 | Recorded: 2020

Few twentieth-century creators have been as inventive as Berio in their relationship with popular and ancestral traditions – drawing material as he did from the hits by The Beatles and the soundscapes of urban streets and markets. Here Geoffroy Jourdain paints the portrait of an explorer with a passion for the human voice. Truculent and volcanic in Sequenza III (performed with panache by French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot), lyrical and caressing in E si fussi pisci, solemn and spellbinding in Cries of London.
Karina Gauvin, Francis Colpron, Les Boreades de Montreal - Purcell (2006)

Karina Gauvin, Francis Colpron, Les Boréades de Montréal - Purcell (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 63:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD2 2398 | Recorded: 2006

This collection puts some of the best Purcell on display–and it couldn't have a more musical or vocally accomplished advocate than Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin. Her voice is pretty for sure, but it also has richness and substance, not to mention a most endearing vibrato that adds an earnestness and enlivening tension to everything she sings.
Lucille Richardot, Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Berio to Sing (2021)

Lucille Richardot, Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris - Berio to Sing (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 214 Mb | Total time: 58:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM902647 | Recorded: 2020

Few twentieth-century creators have been as inventive as Berio in their relationship with popular and ancestral traditions – drawing material as he did from the hits by The Beatles and the soundscapes of urban streets and markets. Here Geoffroy Jourdain paints the portrait of an explorer with a passion for the human voice. Truculent and volcanic in Sequenza III (performed with panache by French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot), lyrical and caressing in E si fussi pisci, solemn and spellbinding in Cries of London.
Ludger Rémy, Les Amis de Philippe, Himlische Cantorey - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Hamburgische Festmusiken (2006)

Ludger Rémy, Les Amis de Philippe, Himlische Cantorey - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Hamburgische Festmusiken (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 296 Mb | Total time: 73:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 108-2 | Recorded: 2004

It was only when Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was appointed Musikdirektor in Hamburg that he started to compose a large amount of religious music. This, of course, was part of his job, but the fact that he had applied for this job is an indication that he didn't see any problem in writing music for the church and for specific occasions. It has taken a long time before the religious repertoire of Emanuel has been taken seriously, and it still doesn't belong to the core of religious music performed by today's choirs and orchestras.
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - Mozart Concertos pour flûte; Concerto pour flûte et harpe (2024) [24/96]

François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & Sandrine Chatron - Mozart: Concertos pour flûte & Concerto pour flûte et harpe (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 70:33 minutes | 1,23 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Mozart's flute concertos are of course a Holy Grail for flautist François Lazarevitch, one that he has decided to tackle together with his ensemble Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien in connection with their work on sources of interpretation. He has recorded the two concertos for flute and orchestra on a one-keyed flute, a copy of an instrument made in Mozart’s time, and the concerto in C for flute and harp on an eight-keyed flute — a flute with a C foot — with Sandrine Chatron playing a period harp by François-Joseph Naderman.