My Pas de Printemps Pour Marnie

Maestro Yan Pascal Tortelier celebrates his twenty five-year recording career and seventy-album discography on Chandos with this album of three of Roussel's most remarkable compositions. It follows a highly praised Birmingham concert with the same forces, namely the exceptional BBCPO and CBSO Chorus, and three revelatory soloists: Kathryn Rudge, 2017 BBC New Generation Artist, the young tenor Alessandro Fisher, joint first prize winner at the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, and François Le Roux, famous for his award-winning performances of French operas.

Bertrand Betsch - Pas de bras, pas de chocolat (2004)
Chanson/French Songwriter/Acoustic Rock | MP3 | CBR 320 kbps | 50:14 | 130 MB

Avec son titre crypto-humoristique, le coeur du cet album de Bertrand Betsch balance, entre léger bonheur (Temps beau) et permanent fardeau (Le Lundi, c'est maladie, J'ai tout vu), le coupable et l'innocent, bonne foi et mauvaise volonté, beau temps et temps mort. Pas de bras, pas de chocolat se distingue du précédent album du chanteur parisien (le hanté B.B. sides) par une visible envie de joies, un désir de mélodies qui restent en tête, d'arrangements qui égaient (grâce également à son complice le guitariste Hervé Le Dorlot, ainsi que le soutien de Marcus Bell et de Jean-Daniel Glorioso).

Copenhagen-based early music ensemble Camerata Øresund takes a musical voyage throughout baroque Europe on their debut recording Pas de bourrée . Suites of dances by Campra, Roman and Purcell alternate with concertos by Bach and Vivaldi and a programme work by Telemann. A theme of travel and journeying unites these pieces. Camerata Øresund cannot keep their feet still even in the most virtuoso of concertos. They dance an energetic "pas de bourrée" to the Allegro of Bach's Harpsichord Concerto, whilst the slow movement from Vivaldi's L’estro armonico is transformed into a hypnotic Sarabande. Pas de bourrée is a colourful kaleidoscope of moods, emotions, characters and stories. Camerata Øresund remains true to their promise that everything they touch will turn into a dance.

The CD release of the “studio reihe neuer musik”-series starts with a CD with works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. His complex “pluralistic” style fuses past, present and future into a musical unit of the highest order. The “Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre en forme de ‘Pas de trios’” created in the late 1960s develops its binding power from a single musical nucleus; “Tratto II” and “Photoptosis” represent Zimmermann's compositional opening of time and space.

Arabella Steinbacher is yet another obviously talented young violinist, but this enterprising release really throws down the gauntlet to the competition, showing how to be both brilliant and musically interesting. These three Milhaud concertos are all but unknown, but they give Steinbacher plenty of opportunity to display her glittering technique as well as emotional maturity. This may sound surprising given the composer, a member of Les Six and one often noted for his cool polytonal style, eclecticism, and emotional detachment.