Camille Yembe

‘It will be a strange score: people will either not like it at all, or will like it enormously’, prophesied Camille Saint-Saëns a few days before the premiere of Déjanire. The opera, first performed in Monte Carlo on 14 March 1911, is based on incidental music written in 1898 for the Béziers Arena. Fascinated by the subject, the composer soon wanted to give it a second, more ambitious life. He therefore conceived a mythological epic that inspired ‘powerfully evocative music’, according to Gabriel Fauré, who was struck by the impact of the choral writing. Yet the love drama that rends the heroine’s heart engenders wildly romantic duets and culminates in the public immolation of Hercules, set ablaze by the poisoned tunic offered to him by the fallen queen.

Camille Saint-Saëns - Ben van Oosten - Complete Organ Works
3xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 584 MB | Full Artwork: 210 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 316 1767-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2012
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century, Organ

The infinite cosmos of French organ music is Ben van Oosten’s realm, and he now has recorded the complete organ works of Camille Saint-Saëns in a sumptuous box set. He performs on the Cavaillé Coll organ in Ste. Madeleine in Paris, one of the most beautiful instruments of its kind and an organ with a big orchestral sound on which Saint-Saëns himself left his traces for more than two decades…

The infinite cosmos of French organ music is Ben van Oosten's realm, and he now has recordd the complete organ works of Camille Saint-Saëns in a sump-tuous box set. He performs on the Cavaillé Coll organ in Ste. Madeleine in Paris, one of the most beautiful instruments of its kind and an organ with a big orchestral sound on which Saint-Saëns himself left his traces for more than two decades.

Parisian cellist sensation Camille Thomas is back with her first crossover album “Aznavouriana” dedicated to the legendary Charles Aznavour to mark his 100th anniversary (May 22nd). A declaration of love to the work of Aznavour, the great poet who has forever marked the French Pop, accompanied by the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and Sergey Smbatyan. A prolific artist, Charles Aznavour built up an unrivalled repertoire (51 albums in French, 42 in foreign languages) and sang on stages all over the world. Part of the profits from the album will be donated to the refugees of Nagorno-Karabakh through the Aznavour Foundation.

Nirgendwo könne ein Komponist seinen Stil besser entwickeln als in der Kirche, wo die Übel des Kunstbetriebes, Applaus und Erfolgsdenken, keinen Platz besäßen, bekannte Camille Saint-Saëns einmal, und er wußte, wovon er sprach: Er selbst war zwanzig Jahre lang als Organist an der Pariser Madeleine tätig gewesen. Die Werke dieser CD belegen Saint-Saëns' These. Sowohl das Requiem als auch die Psalmvertonung verblüffen durch einen ganz eigenen Tonfall, der eine eingängige Melodik, raffiniert chromatische Harmonik und klangsinnliche Instrumentation verbindet.

Camille a décidé de tracer sa propre route afin d’être au plus proche de ses volontés artistiques. - - Pour la première fois aussi, elle ne réunit que les musiciens avec qui elle tourne depuis plusieurs années afin d’être au plus proche du son de groupe qu’ils ont obtenu à force de tourner ensemble. - - Cet album se différencie des autres en misant sur un son organique, un peu comme un ‘laboratoire’ qui deviendrait disque. La batterie, très présente sur ses anciens albums, est remplacée par les percussions. Tous les titres, textes, en français, et arrangements sont de sa composition et portent en eux la volonté d’affirmer, une fois de plus, l’alliance de deux mondes difficilement et rarement assemblables : Le jazz et la chanson, tout en gardant la danse, l’improvisation et la transe.

The infinite cosmos of French organ music is Ben van Oosten's realm, and he now has recordd the complete organ works of Camille Saint-Saëns in a sump-tuous box set. He performs on the Cavaillé Coll organ in Ste. Madeleine in Paris, one of the most beautiful instruments of its kind and an organ with a big orchestral sound on which Saint-Saëns himself left his traces for more than two decades.