Michel Plasson & Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse & Michel Plasson - Sauguet: Les forains & Tableaux de Paris (1978/2024)

Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse & Michel Plasson - Sauguet: Les forains & Tableaux de Paris (1978/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 262 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | 00:56:18
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

Henri Sauguet stampeded in the musical milieu when he was barely twenty, as co-founder with his mentor Erik Satie of the ephemeral École d’Arcueil. His orchestral music, inspired by the Six, is very French in tone: light, elegant, not demonstrative but straightforward. Sauguet earnt his biggest successes in ballet, his most revered score being the rarely recorded Les forains (The Carneys), choreographed by Roland Petit, empathic depiction of a modest troop of street artists. Featuring conductor Michel Plasson & coupled with the Tableaux de Paris, a set of lovely pictures of the most emblematic places of the capital.
François-René Duchâble, Michel Plasson - Ravel: Concerto en sol, Concerto "pour la main gauche"; Debussy: Fantaisie (1996)

François-René Duchâble, Michel Plasson, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse - Ravel: Concerto en sol, Concerto "pour la main gauche"; Debussy: Fantaisie (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 60:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 55586 2 | Recorded: 1995

Accompagné par l'orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, le pianiste français renouvelle l'approche de ces deux concertos. Bon nombre d'interprètes en avaient en effet donné une interprétation de plus en plus épaisse et romantique, ce qui est en contradiction avec l'écriture de ces oeuvres, davantage inspirées par la légèreté et le modernisme de "l'esprit français" des années 20-30. Le jazz, si présent dans le Concerto pour la main gauche, par exemple, est révélateur de la pensée de Ravel. Le piano de Duchâble est plus que brillant : il est incendiaire, volatile, merveilleusement aérien. La qualité de la tenue rythmique, le sens des contrastes, l'humour, si souvent présent chez Ravel, sont magnifiquement restitués.
Michel Plasson - Magnard: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, Hymne à la justice & Ouverture (2023)

Michel Plasson & Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse - Magnard: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, Hymne à la justice & Ouverture (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 475 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 249 Mb | 01:47:47
Classical | Label: Erato Records, Warner Classics

Second and last volume of our Albéric Magnard cycle (the first ever to be put on record) by French romantic trailblazer Michel Plasson. Very German in tone, his symphonies hide treasures of beauty despite their seeming austerity. The fascinating Hymn to Justice is a powerful work inspired by the Dreyfus affair that shook France at the end of the 19th-century.

VA - Essential Ballet (2010)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at March 19, 2017
VA - Essential Ballet (2010)

VA - Essential Ballet
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 157:37 min | 364 MB
Label: Warner Classics | Tracks: 34 | Rls.date: 2010

An invitation to the dance in its many ballet forms, this collection ranges panoramically across cultures and styles. From the lustrous scores of the Russian tradition - Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Khachaturian - to the masters of sensual Gallic elegance - Ravel, Satie, Fauré, Delibes, Bizet, Poulenc, Adam and Hérold, from the idiosyncratic British charm of Sullivan to Copland's swaggering cowboys, Essential Ballet captures the spirit and spectacle of the art.
VA - Claude Debussy - Debussy: Clair de lune and Other Masterpieces (2024)

VA - Claude Debussy - Debussy: Clair de lune and Other Masterpieces (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 861 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 564 MB
4:04:36 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Claude Debussy (born Achille-Claude Debussy) was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His mature compositions, distinctive and appealing, combined modernism and sensuality so successfully that their sheer beauty often obscures their technical innovation. Debussy is considered the founder and leading exponent of musical Impressionism (although he resisted the label), and his adoption of non-traditional scales and tonal structures was paradigmatic for many composers who followed. The son of a shopkeeper and a seamstress, Debussy began piano studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 11. While a student there, he encountered the wealthy Nadezhda von Meck (most famous as Tchaikovsky's patroness), who employed him as a music teacher to her children; through travel, concerts and acquaintances, she provided him with a wealth of musical experience. Most importantly, she exposed the young Debussy to the works of Russian composers, such as Borodin and Mussorgsky, who would remain important influences on his music.

Angela Gheorghiu – Diva (2004)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 20, 2023
Angela Gheorghiu – Diva (2004)

Angela Gheorghiu – Diva (2004)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:06:53 | 350 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 57706

Diva is an entertaining and attractively packaged compilation of Angela Gheorghiu's EMI recordings made between 1996 and 2002. All of the selections have appeared on previous releases, but some of them only in the context of complete operas. As a one-disc snapshot of Gheorghiu's career so far, Diva does pretty well, and it would make a good first choice for anyone looking to get to know her work.

Roberto Alagna - Sacred Songs (1996)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Dec. 4, 2021
Roberto Alagna - Sacred Songs (1996)

Roberto Alagna - Sacred Songs (1996)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 304 MB | 01:06:53
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Discs of this type featuring star soloists, more often than not a tenor, are not in short supply. This one, recorded a decade ago as a vehicle for Roberto Alagna and first issued by EMI, scores over many alternatives because of two factors: the programming and the quality of execution. Any programme focusing on French chants sacrés of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is almost bound to include Gounod’s often performed Ave Maria, written after Bach’s famous prelude in the ‘Well-tempered clavier’. To place it at the beginning – as here – is apt and allows the musical content to diversify from that point. Gounod’s representation is extended with three further contributions that pay testament to the importance not only of his compositional voice but also his deeply felt beliefs, which he sought to convey through his music.

VA - 100 Best Organ Classics (2013)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 18, 2018
VA - 100 Best Organ Classics (2013)

VA - 100 Best Organ Classics (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 07:03:34 | 1,89 Gb
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, EMI Records

This 6CD set contains 100 tracks of popular organ music from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics performed by some of the world’s finest organists on a wide variety of instruments from all over the UK and Continental Europe.
Roberto Alagna - L'Enchanteur (2016) {2CD Set Warner Classics 0825646390229}

Roberto Alagna - L'Enchanteur (2016) {2CD Set Warner Classics 0825646390229}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 666 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 353 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 70 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2016 Parlophone / Warner Classics | 0825646390229
Classical / Romantic / Opera Aria / Tenor

Roberto Alagna is the kind of ‘opera singer’ who can sing for all with such infectious pleasure that all we can do is sit back and enjoy. And so happy are we to listen to him that there’s only one thing we feel we should say to him: thank you. This collection features aria from Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Gounoud, Massenet, Bizet, Berlioz, Offenbach and Bernstein.

Jules Massenet - Massenet: Operas (2018) (16 CDs Box Set)  Music

Posted by murena at Aug. 27, 2024
Jules Massenet - Massenet: Operas (2018) (16 CDs Box Set)

Jules Massenet - Massenet: Operas (2018) (16 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 16 CDs | 3,9 Gb | Covers -> 54mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Erato

During the Belle Époque, Jules Massenet rose to become France’s leading composer of opera, as notable for his acute dramatic sense as for the refined sensuality of his music. Encompassing three decades of his career, and settings as diverse as Biblical Judea and the Paris of Massenet’s time, the seven operas in this box range from the enduringly popular Manon and Werther through works occasionally revived for star singers (Thaïs and Don Quichotte) to three fascinating rarities (Hérodiade, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame and Sapho). They represent nearly 40 years of recording history and feature a host of celebrated singers and conductors from France and around the world.