Yan Middendorp

Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier - Francis Poulenc, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud: Orchestral Works (1992)

Francis Poulenc: Les biches, Suite; Jacques Ibert: Divertissement;
Darius Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit, La Creation du Monde (1992)
Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 295 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans ~ 57 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9023 | Time: 01:08:10

This programme of 1920s French music is in the hands of a conductor who gets right into the spirit of it, and plenty of spirit there is too. Apart from the Ibert, this is ballet music, and that work too originated as a theatre piece, having been incidental music for Eugene Labiche's farce The Italian Straw Hat. Poulenc's unfailingly fresh and bouncy suite from Les biches is very enjoyable although Chandos's warm and resonant recording takes some of the edge off the trumpet tone that is so central to the writing. The geniality of it all makes one forget that this is remarkable music in which (as Christopher Palmer's booklet essay points out) the twentieth-century French composer evokes eighteenth-century fetes galantes through the eyes of that greatest of nineteenth-century ballet composers, Tchaikovsky.
Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Lili Boulanger: Faust Et Helene, etc (1999)

Lili Boulanger: Faust Et Hélène; Psaume 24;
Psaume 130; D'un soir triste; D'un matin de printemps
Lynne Dawson, soprano; Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano;
Bonaventura Bottone, tenor; Neil MacKenzie, tenor; Jason Howard, bass
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus; BBC Philharmonic; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 320 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:13:25
Genre: Classical, Vocal, Choral | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9745

Lili Boulanger's setting of the 130th Psalm is a choral masterpiece. Tortelier and his forces deliver a vivid performance, recorded with tremendous presence. There is even more power in the old Markevich performance, done under Nadia Boulanger's supervision, but the superior Chandos recording makes a difference. Faust et Hélène is a somewhat immature student work (a strange qualification for music by a composer who died at 24), but it is also well performed. The remaining music represents Boulanger's visionary eloquence. This disc is highly recommended as an introduction to a great composer. After you hear it, try the Everest disc, despite the duplications. It contains Boulanger's deathbed Pie Jesu, a brief piece of such intense power that it will leave most listeners in tears.
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier - Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B flat; Viviane; Soir de fete; La tempete (1999)

Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B flat; Viviane; Soir de fête; La tempête (1999)
BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 337 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 208 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9650 | Time: 01:07:21

Ernest Chausson’s death in 1899 in a bicycle accident robbed French music of a major talent. Almost his entire orchestral output fits on this extremely fine CD. Yan Pascal Tortelier’s performance of the richly romantic Symphony is the best since Munch’s Boston Symphony recording. Like Munch, Tortelier knows how to keep the music moving along–he’s only an insignificant two minutes slower than Munch for the whole work–without overindulging the more luscious moments, which in Chausson’s opulent setting really do take care of themselves. Even better, rather than some overplayed encore piece by another composer, the symphony is coupled with two very attractive, rarely heard tone poems and two charming orchestral excerpts from the composer’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The orchestra plays with conviction, Chandos’ sonics are gorgeous, and if you don’t buy this disc, you’re missing out on some marvelous stuff.

Yan Levionnois & Guillaume Bellom - Malinconia (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 16, 2023
Yan Levionnois & Guillaume Bellom - Malinconia (2023)

Yan Levionnois & Guillaume Bellom - Malinconia (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 270 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 171 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:34
Classical | Label: NoMadMusic

With Malinconia, Yan Levionnois and Guillaume Bellom invite us to a musical exploration of nostalgia. From Debussy to Piazzolla, via Webern, Fauré, Janacek, Bartok, Sibelius and Liszt, this album also offers a journey through the 20th century. Through pieces testifying to the personal vision of this state by eight composers, this programme offers a juxtaposition of styles. Rich in contrasts, it offers an immediately perceptible diversity in which the works illuminate each other.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Adam Walker, BBC Philharmonic & Yan Pascal Tortelier - Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute (2023)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Adam Walker, BBC Philharmonic & Yan Pascal Tortelier - Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 262 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 171 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:13:21
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Pierre Sancan was a tremendously influential figure in French musical life, as a composer, pianist, teacher, and conductor, but remains relatively unknown outside France. Born in Mazamet, in 1916 – the same year as Dutilleux – he received his early musical training in Morocco and, later, Toulouse. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1934 where he studied with Jean Gallon, conducting with Charles Munch and Roger Désormière, piano with Yves Nat, and composition with Henri Busser.

Tony Yan-Tong Chen - Homecoming (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 6, 2021
Tony Yan-Tong Chen - Homecoming (2021)

Tony Yan-Tong Chen - Homecoming (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 199 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 153 Mb | 01:06:42
Classical | Label: Rattle Records

Homecoming is a set of recollections of people, places, times and experiences. It is a response to the anxieties and concerns that were created by the global pandemic, but it also reflects some of the creative and artistic possibilities that can arise during times of instability and solitude.
Yan Pascal Tortelier, Iceland SO - Gounod: Symphonies (2019) MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Yan Pascal Tortelier, Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Gounod: Symphonies (2019)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:14 minutes | Covers + PDF Booklet | 2,96 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Covers + PDF Booklet | 1,38 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Covers + PDF Booklet | 1,23 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Chandos # CHSA 5231

After winning the Prix de Rome for his cantata Fernand in 1839 and spending two years in Rome, Gounod should have gone on to study in Germany, but he managed in 1842 to persuade the authorities that he should remain in Rome to work on a symphony. In 1843 he visited Mendelssohn who (while trying to dissuade him from wasting his time on Goethes Faust!) urged him to write another symphony. We do not know how much of the First Symphony Gounod had completed by then, but it is not surprising that Mendelssohn figures as one of the key influences on both symphonies. After performances of individual movements in 1855, premieres were given of the First Symphony on 4 March that year and of the Second Symphony on 13 February 1856. Yan Pascal Tortelier and his Iceland Symphony Orchestra demonstrate outstanding precision and musicality in these unjustly neglected works.
Julian Lloyd Webber, Yan Pascal Tortelier, English Chamber Orchestra - Saint-Saëns, Honegger: Cello Concertos (1991)

Julian Lloyd Webber, Yan Pascal Tortelier, English Chamber Orchestra - Saint-Saëns, Honegger: Cello Concertos; Fauré: Élégie; d'Indy: Lied (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 245 Mb | Total time: 53:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 432 084-2 | Recorded: 1990

This disc makes for a satisfying programme. I agree with its title, too, for although reference books often call Honegger Swiss he was born in Le Havre, became a pupil of d'Indy in Paris, was one of Les Six and died in the French capital. His Cello Concerto is a small work both in style and content, pastorally Gallic in feeling and with a bouncy second section and finale to its single-movement form. This is unfamiliar repertory, well written for the cello, that earns its place in the catalogue.
Yan Pascal Tortelier, Iceland SO - Gounod: Symphonies (2019) MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Yan Pascal Tortelier, Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Gounod: Symphonies (2019)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:14 minutes | Covers + PDF Booklet | 2,96 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Covers + PDF Booklet | 1,38 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Covers + PDF Booklet | 1,23 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Chandos # CHSA 5231

After winning the Prix de Rome for his cantata Fernand in 1839 and spending two years in Rome, Gounod should have gone on to study in Germany, but he managed in 1842 to persuade the authorities that he should remain in Rome to work on a symphony. In 1843 he visited Mendelssohn who (while trying to dissuade him from wasting his time on Goethes Faust!) urged him to write another symphony. We do not know how much of the First Symphony Gounod had completed by then, but it is not surprising that Mendelssohn figures as one of the key influences on both symphonies. After performances of individual movements in 1855, premieres were given of the First Symphony on 4 March that year and of the Second Symphony on 13 February 1856. Yan Pascal Tortelier and his Iceland Symphony Orchestra demonstrate outstanding precision and musicality in these unjustly neglected works.

Clara Rene by Yan Senez  Girls

Posted by nrg at Nov. 13, 2017
Clara Rene by Yan Senez

Clara René - Yan Senez Photoshoot 2017
14 jpg | up to 2727*2727 | 6.89 MB
French model