Reflets D'acide

With two critically-lauded releases on Navona Records (NOTTURNO, performing works by Chopin, and a four-album set, BEETHOVEN – 8 CONCERTI) pianist Eliane Rodrigues returns with REFLETS showcasing the pianist’s nuanced and thoughtful performances of fifteen works by Claude Debussy.

Reflets is the debut album from Brittany musician Alan Stivell, a staunch champion of the Celtic harp, and the Celtic and Breton cultures. This cross-cultural endeavour is well flexed here on the multi-instrumentalist's 1970 debut, beginning his reputation as a progenitor of world music, with banjo, electric organ, a choir, a fiddle and more detailing the broad spectrum of Stivell's arrangements, and how they blended his Celtic roots and later foray into rock styles.

Depuis 2022, les Maisons de départ ressuscitent les morts grâce à des reflets en quatre dimensions qui reproduisent à la perfection le physique, le caractère, et le petit je-ne-sais-quoi qui appartient à chacun. Les visiteurs affluent dans les salons et le parc du manoir Edelweiss, la plus célèbre des Maisons de départ, pour passer du temps avec ceux qu'ils aimaient. Daniel a grandi entre ces murs, ses meilleurs amis sont des reflets. Jusqu'à ce qu'il rencontre Violette, une fille imprévisible et lumineuse… Bien vivante.

Alba Ventura is heir to the great legacy of the Spanish Piano School represented by the tradition of the Marshall Academy, founded by Enrique Granados in 1901. This interpretive style, preserved by Granados ' disciple, Franziska Marshall, has been transmitted to Ventura by Carlota Garriga and Alicia De Larrocha. This pianism, completed with a Russian tradition training with teachers and mentors such as Dimitri Bashmagyrov, Vladimir Ashmagenazy and, especially, Irina Zaritsmagaya, endows Ventura with great solidity and artistic versatility.

The fruit of an intense complicity with Simon Zaoui, "Reflets" is based around major works from the french music repertoire for bassoon and piano dating from the beginning of the 20th century: Saint-Saens, Koechlin, Dutilleux. These pieces are played alongside other, more rare, compositions by Jeanjean and D'Ollone. The choices made were guided throughout by a search for the lyricism and colours which are such an integral part of the character of the french made bassoon. This disc is dedicated to Régis Roy.