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Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann & Frédéric Chaslin - Chansons pour elle (2021)

Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann & Frédéric Chaslin - Chansons pour elle (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 192 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:57:57
Classical, Vocal | Label: Aparte

On album of songs covering over a hundred years of French mélodie, from Reynaldo Hahn to the present day. It includes classics of the genre (Debussy's Nuit d'étoiles, Poulenc's Les chemins de l'amour), but also very recent compositions, in the form of two song cycles by Frédéric Chaslin. Chansons pour elle (to poems by Jean Cocteau) and Nudités (texts by Alain Duault) are imaginative works, free in their expression. Music of today meets music of yesterday and the result is both subtle and poetic.
Stephan MacLeod, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2012)

Stephan MacLeod, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 356 Mb | Total time: 65:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Productions | # Alpha 185 | Recorded: 2011

The performances on this lovely album of vocal and instrumental music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier make it a recording that should delight the composer's fans and anyone who loves the music of the Baroque. Listeners should be warned that the packaging and even the composer's titles create expectations of music of a very different character from what is actually presented. The three Leçons de Ténèbres of the title, scored for bass and chamber orchestra, refer to baleful texts taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah describing the fall and abasement of Jerusalem, and were written for services on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Holy Week, the darkest days in the Christian liturgical calendar.

Alexis Kossenko - Naudot: Fantaisies Champêtres (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 20, 2023
Alexis Kossenko - Naudot: Fantaisies Champêtres (2023)

Alexis Kossenko, Tobie Miller, Jean-Pierre Van Hees, Les Ambassadeurs & La Grande Écurie - Naudot: Fantaisies Champêtres (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 470 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 191 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:20:58
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

Musettes, hurdy-gurdies, and flutes formed the dream countryside of Rococo-style salons, that of Watteau’s painting Concert Champêtre (1727), when Naudot’s Fantaisies were enjoying their hour of glory. The fashion for “pastoralism” was in full swing, and professional musicians as well as great amateurs vied with each other in “pastoral” concertos where musettes and hurdy-gurdies featured heavily. These instruments were popular originally, garnering great skill to rise to the heights of virtuoso: enough to enchant Louis XV’s courtesans and those close to La Pompadour! Alexis Kossenko reveals these wonderfully outdated gems to us as a bold shepherd.
Christophe Coin, Chouchane Siranossian, Alexis Kossenko & Davit Melkonyan - Antoine Reicha: Symphonies Concertantes (2020)

Christophe Coin - Antoine Reicha: Symphonies Concertantes (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 326 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 165 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:12
Classical | Label: Claves Records

The two Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Flute and for two Cellos by Antoine Reicha show an astonishing balance between innovation and reflection. They bear witness to an outstanding virtuosity and art of composition, which revolutionise forms through spectacular, enthusiasm-provoking lines of execution and through novelties of writing that impact their deeper structures. A composer who established a link between the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Vienna and Paris, Joseph Haydn and César Franck (one of the last among his many pupils), Reicha can no longer be reduced to his theoretical and didactic dimension alone: his extensive work, still too little known, continues to surprise us.
Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs-La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Achante et Céphise (2021)

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs-La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau - Achante et Céphise (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 743 Mb | Total time: 65:41+64:44 | Scans included
Classical | Erato | # 9029669394 | Recorded: 2020

An opera of adventurous and lavish scope, Rameau’s magical Achante et Céphise receives its world premiere recording – 270 years after its staged premiere at the Académie royale de musique in celebration of the birth of Louis XV’s grandson. The first French opera to feature clarinets, it offers a rich sequence of choruses, ballets and virtuoso ariettes and opens with a celebratory overture which includes a graphic musical depiction of a fireworks display. Alexis Kossenko conducts tenor Cyrille Dubois and soprano Sabine Devieilhe in the title roles, Les Ambassadeurs – the orchestra he founded in 2010 – and the choral singers of Les Chantres du CMBV (Centre de musique baroque de Versailles).
Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 753 Mb | Total time: 165:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 891 | Recorded: 2022

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) left two very different versions of his tragédie en musique Zoroastre: the first, in 1749, suffered from cabals and the work was withdrawn from the repertory. Rameau gave it a thoroughgoing revision in 1756. At this time, he was at the height of his powers. Melody, harmony, orchestration and choral writing no longer held any secrets for him. Zoroastre brought still further innovation. For the first time, he dispensed with a prologue, and turned the overture into a philosophical ‘programme’, the struggle between day and night, between good and evil. The 1749 version is entirely governed by avant-garde ideas; Zoroastre resembles Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, but two generations earlier. This disconcerted some of the audience: Zoroastre was a moral, social and philosophical opera.
Alexis Descharmes, Sébastien Vichard - Franz Liszt: Complete Cello Works (2006)

Alexis Descharmes, Sébastien Vichard - Franz Liszt: Complete Cello Works (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 64:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Aeon | AECD0745 | Recorded: 2004

Liszt’s chamber music is not well known—to the extent that some music lovers often do not even know it exists—for the sole reason that, in large part, it consists of transcriptions, and the principle of transcription does not automatically inspire confidence in today’s musicians. Yet, aside from the few ‘originals’ proposed in this programme, the transcriptions were quite often realised by Liszt himself, for whom the concepts of transcription, reduction, adaptation or paraphrase were an integral part of musical creation. The works chosen for this recording meet two criteria: they all include a more-or-less solo cello part, and a good number of them come from the 1880-86 period, i.e., Wagner’s and Liszt’s last years.

Alexis Cole - Someday My Prince Will Come (2009) {Venus}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 12, 2024
Alexis Cole - Someday My Prince Will Come (2009) {Venus}

Alexis Cole - Someday My Prince Will Come (2009) {Venus}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 339MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 135MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz

Alexis Cole is caught deep in the dreams of her childhood on this set of standards that recall a more innocent youth and simpler times. Yet the romantic spell of grown-up fantasies is also heard during this set of ballads derived from show tunes that have references to Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and similar playful, lighthearted figures of mythical proportions. As a vocalist, Cole has few peers in terms of her enunciation, coupled with a beautiful singing voice she draws on previous icons such as Chris Connor, Irene Kral, or Carol Sloane. Pianist Fred Hersch is a perfect choice for making these songs come to life in Cole's vivid, lush, story telling imagination, with bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Matt Wilson also along for this magic carpet ride.

Alexis Marshall - House of Lull . House Of When (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 10, 2021
Alexis Marshall - House of Lull . House Of When (2021)

Alexis Marshall - House of Lull . House Of When (2021)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 267 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 Mb | 00:42:26
Experimental Rock, Art Rock, Noise Rock, Post-Punk | Label: Sargent House

Alexis Marshall is best known as the frontman for Rhode Island’s notorious provocateurs Daughters, whose eight-year hiatus between their posthumous self-titled album and the critically acclaimed comeback album You Won’t Get What You Want found the ever-evolving band explode from down-and-out cult heroes to one of the biggest bands in the nebulous territory where abrasive noise rock fuses with high-art aspirations. For his debut album House of Lull . House of When, Marshall wanted to push that sense of chaos even further, by crafting an album around moments of spontaneity and sonic detritus, where a mistake could become a hook or the whip of a chain could become a beat.
Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Per l'Orchestra di Dresda, Vol.1 Ouverture (2021)

Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Per l'Orchestra di Dresda, Vol.1 Ouverture (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 485 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:22:39
Classical | Label: Aparté

Alexis Kossenko delves into the repertoire of one of the most admired orchestras in Europe during Bach's lifetime. The greatest composers of the century composed for this famous ensemble, who were showcase for the musical splendor of the court of the prince-electors. Combining concerti and sacred music, this album is the first volume in an exceptional series devoted to this orchestra.