Mélodies Françaises José Van Dam, Jean Philippe Collard

Simon Rattle, Berliner Philarmoniker - Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Ma Mère l'Oye (2009)

Simon Rattle, Berliner Philarmoniker - Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Ma Mère l'Oye (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 72:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 2 64197 2 | Recorded: 2008

The conducting of Simon Rattle is the most compelling element in this recording of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Berlin Philharmonic. Rattle draws playing of great delicacy and nuance from the orchestra, and the many sections that are scored as lightly as chamber music are played with especially loving attention to shaping the elegant and expressive phrases; the beginning of the second part of the opera is especially magical.
Augustin Dumay, Jean-Philippe Collard - Franck, Magnard: Sonates pour violon et piano (1989)

Augustin Dumay, Jean-Philippe Collard - Franck, Magnard: Sonates pour violon et piano (1989)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:13:37 | 287 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Digital | Catalog: CDC 7498902

The first CD here is generously filled and contains a valuable novelty in the Magnard Violin Sonata, which may well tempt collectors already possessing a good version of the Franck. In the first movement of the latter, where the marking is Allegretto ben moderato, Augustin Dumay and Jean-Philippe Collard create a feeling of serenity at the start not only tonally but also by a tempo of about dotted crotchet = 48, but fine though the playing is, I think the ben moderato has been interpreted too freely here.
Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass (2022)

Michel Corboz conducts Bach - Excerpts: Weihnachtsoratorium, Magnificat, Matthäus-Passion, Johannes-Passion, Mass in B Minor; Concertos BWV 1052, 1055 & 1056 (2022)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 1.05 Gb | Total time: 4 h 5 min | Cover included
Classical | Label: Erato

Nurtured by Sunday radio broadcasts of cantatas in his youth, Michel Corboz very soon developed a deep admiration for Bach, whose music was the guiding thread of his career. He approached every major sacred work, some more than once, always questioning the score and exploring new interpretive options. This album is a selection of the best moments from the passions, masses and oratorios, featuring beautiful vocal soloists such as José van Dam, Sandrine Piau and more. It also includes some instrumental tracks with keyboard concertos by Maria João Pires.
Jean-Philippe Collard - Fauré: Musique de Chambre, Vol. 2 (2CD) [1st press] (1988)

Jean-Philippe Collard - Fauré: Musique de Chambre, Vol. 2 (1988)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:37:11 | 737 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI | Catalog: 7 62548 2

It's good to have this collection of Fauré chamber music, played by French performers, still available in the catalog. Fauré's music doesn't appeal to everyone, despite its late-Romantic idiom; most of it is very subtle, almost withdrawn, and to get the most out of it takes a lot of listening. That listening is eventually rewarded by a rich experience. Fauré's most overtly romantic and exciting chamber piece, the Piano Quartet No. 1, is included in this set, and should appeal to most listeners.

Jean-Philippe Collard - Granados: Goyescas (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 16, 2020
Jean-Philippe Collard - Granados: Goyescas (2020)

Jean-Philippe Collard - Granados: Goyescas (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 173 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:53:53
Classical | Label: La Dolce Vita

Jean-Philippe Collard belongs to that category of artists who move through space in the same way as they play: the measured gestures brush past the lights until he sits down in front of the instrument. The pianist has come to listen to those who have come to hear him. What he proposes is a dialogue without words. Just through the eyes and then through sound. An infinity of sounds.

Jean Philippe Collard - Chopin: Ballades (2018)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Sept. 22, 2018
Jean Philippe Collard - Chopin: Ballades (2018)

Jean Philippe Collard - Chopin: Ballades (2018)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 89 MB | Cover | 33:40 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 77 MB
Classical | Label: Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

Pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, whose brilliant career of over 50 years has led him to perform in the world’s most prestigious concert halls, offers an unmissable recital of captivating works by Chopin and Fauré.
Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)

Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF, Vasso Papantoniou, José Carreras - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 723 Mb | Total time: 68:38+48:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gala | # GL 100.763 | Recorded: 1972

This live recording from Paris in 1972 has two main attraction: the chance to hear a very young - 25 years old, in fact - José Carreras at the outset of his career and, more importantly, I think, the opportunity to hear Vasso Papantoniou, an excellent soprano largely unknown outside her native Greece where she has made her career and who at times sounds uncannily like her compatriot, Maria Callas, especially in the middle of her voice and in her deployment of highly expressive downward portamenti. Her vibrato is faster and, like Callas, top notes can be shrill, be she is a complete artist who obviously impressed the Parisian audience. To hear her at her best either her opening or closing aria will do; listen to her from "M'odi, ah! mo'di" to the end of the opera, where she opts to use the virtuoso aria Donizetti wrote especially for diva Henriette Méric-Lelande and very good she is too.
Tresors des Requiem: Mozart; Brahms; Schumann; Lotti; Cherubini; Berlioz; Bruneau; Verdi; Faure; Saint-Saens; Durufle (2001)

Tresors des Requiem: Mozart; Brahms; Schumann; Lotti; Cherubini; Berlioz; Bruneau; Verdi; Faure; Saint-Saens; Durufle [4CDs] (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,18 Gb | Total time: 73:54+65:36+73:21+76:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA | # 74321 840402 | Recorded: 1977-1998

Tout le monde devrait connaitre certaines oeuvres classiques. Les requiems de Mozart ou de de Saint Sens en font parti, à mes yeux.
Jean-Philippe Collard - Rachmaninoff: 6 Moments musicaux - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (2018) [24/88]

Jean-Philippe Collard - Rachmaninoff: 6 Moments musicaux - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Time - 65:01 minutes | 981 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Jean-Philippe Collard’s version stands out for its fluidity and wonderful naturalness. He constantly renews his touch, first thinking of the Pictures at an exhibition… in their orchestral nature.
Jean-Philippe Collard - Schumann: Fantasie & Kreisleriana (Bonus Track Version) (2017)

Jean-Philippe Collard - Schumann: Fantasie & Kreisleriana (Bonus Track Version) (2017)
Classical, Piano | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:07:43 | 155 MB
Label: La Dolce Volta | Release Year: 2017

Recorded in April 2016 at the brand new Cité de la Musique and Dance in Soissons, Jean-Philippe Collard's Les Fantaisie and the Cycle of Kreisleriana by Schumann remind us how the pianist is one of the happy few in the great international scene when In his youth, Collard incorporated the excellent influences of Yves Nat, Vlado Perlemuter, Gilels, and Richter, while at the same time allowing the development of his Personal design of the structures. With maturity helping, it is now before a very original interpretation that we strongly suggest to the listener to listen and taste. Virtuosity - required, and not only a little else! - gives way to a highly musical and sonorous conception of these great Schumannian masterpieces, conceived in a transparency "à la française" (after all, Collard did not record the entire piano of Ravel and Fauré, as well as that for four hands of Debussy with Beroff?) Quite welcome.