Chauvin

Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Rivales (2022)

Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Rivales: Airs et Duos d'Opéras et d'Opéras Comiques Français (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 63:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA824 | Recorded: 2021

Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens have a longstanding rapport and dreamed of making a recording together. Here they pay tribute to two singers who, like them, were born within a year of each other, Mme Dugazon (1755-1821) and Mme Saint-Huberty (1756-1812): both enjoyed triumphant careers in Paris, inspiring numerous librettists and composers. Gluck even nicknamed Saint-Huberty ‘Madamela- Ressource’, while ‘a Dugazon’ became a generic name for the roles of naïve girls in love, and later of comical mothers. Rivals? They very likely were, given the quarrelsome spirit of the operatic world of the time, even if they never crossed paths on stage.
Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & La Follia (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & La Follia (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 57:46 minutes | 1,17 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

More than 300 years after Antonio Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons , the most famous work in the history of music is still as lively and invigorating as ever. Now Le Concert de la Loge has recorded this Baroque treasure with its founder and director, the violinist Julien Chauvin, as soloist. For the occasion, the Château de Versailles has loaned him an exceptional instrument: a Neapolitan violin by Nicola Gagliano, adorned with fleur-de-lys and inlaid decorations. This instrument, which was played by Yehudi Menuhin in the 1970s, comes from the ‘collection de Madame Adélaïde’, named after one of Louis XV’s daughters. It has not left the Château for almost a century and is in a perfect state of preservation. The main work is complemented by Vivaldi’s no less celebrated ‘La Follia’ and an aria that is now famous in its own right, ‘Sovvente il sole’ from Andromeda liberata , the score of which was discovered in Venice in 2002. It is performed here by the countertenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian.
Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & La Follia (2024)

Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & La Follia (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 331 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 133 Mb | 00:57:46
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics

More than 300 years after Antonio Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons , the most famous work in the history of music is still as lively and invigorating as ever. Now Le Concert de la Loge has recorded this Baroque treasure with its founder and director, the violinist Julien Chauvin, as soloist. For the occasion, the Château de Versailles has loaned him an exceptional instrument: a Neapolitan violin by Nicola Gagliano, adorned with fleur-de-lys and inlaid decorations. This instrument, which was played by Yehudi Menuhin in the 1970s, comes from the ‘collection de Madame Adélaïde’, named after one of Louis XV’s daughters. It has not left the Château for almost a century and is in a perfect state of preservation. The main work is complemented by Vivaldi’s no less celebrated ‘La Follia’ and an aria that is now famous in its own right, ‘Sovvente il sole’ from Andromeda liberata , the score of which was discovered in Venice in 2002. It is performed here by the countertenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian.
Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - VIVALDI Concerti per violino VIII "Il teatro" (2020)

Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - VIVALDI Concerti per violino VIII "Il teatro" (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 336 MB | Tracks: 18 | 62:00 min
Style: Classical | Label: naïve classique

This is the first time a French violinist has joined the line of prestigious solo virtuosi recording for the Vivaldi Edition. Violinist Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge – founded in 2015, and modelled on one of the most celebrated orchestras of the late 18th century – here reveal all the discreet charms of an inventive concertante style rich in detail, featuring Vivaldi’s favoured instrument. This particular set of concerti highlight the consistently close links between Vivaldi’s instrumental and operatic works.
Philippe Jaroussky, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Forgotten Arias (2023)

Philippe Jaroussky, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Forgotten Arias (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 423 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 Mb | 01:16:55
Classical, Vocal | Label: Erato Records, Warner Classics

With Forgotten Arias countertenor Philippe Jaroussky pays tribute to composers of the late Baroque era and to the great librettist of the age, Pietro Metasasio. All ten arias on the album, written between 1748 and 1770 by nine composers, are heard in world premiere recordings. Metasasio’s librettos were set by multiple composers – Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck and Mozart among them – resulting in hundreds of operas. The more familiar names on the multi-faceted programme of Forgotten Arias are Gluck, Johann Christian Bach, Jommelli, Hasse and Piccinni. Less well-known are Bernasconi, Ferrandini, Traetta and Valentini. Jaroussky’s partners on the album are the conductor Julien Chauvin and his orchestra Le Concert de la Loge. All in all, Forgotten Arias looks set to be highly memorable.
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Julien Chauvin, Atsushi Sakaï, Alexis Kossenko - Haydn, Hofmann: Concerti (2008)

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Julien Chauvin, Atsushi Sakaï, Alexis Kossenko - Haydn, Hofmann: Concerti (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 66:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Eloquentia | # EL 0917 | Recorded: 2008

Most of Haydn's concertos are early works, written in the years immediately before or after his engagement at the Esterhazy court in 1761. During that time, he composed four violin concertos, of which three-all except Hob.VIIa, No.2 in D major - survive, none of them in autograph form. Hob.VIIa No.3, in A major turned up only in 1949.
Le Concert de la Loge under Julien Chauvin - Stabat Mater, Symphonies Parisiennes Nos. 84 & 86 (2021) [24/96]

Le Concert de la Loge under Julien Chauvin - Stabat Mater, Symphonies Parisiennes Nos. 84 & 86 (2021) [24/96 Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:45:40 minutes | 1,83 GB
Classical | Label: Aparte, Official Digital Download

Le Concert de la Loge and Julien Chauvin continue the Haydn adventure with the Paris symphonies no.84 and no.86. The conductor and his period instruments orchestra complete the programme with the beautiful Stabat Mater, one of Haydn’s most performed ones during his lifetime. Composed in 1767 during the Sturm and Drang period, the Stabat Mater’s strikingly sober and plain expression (« Fac me vere tecum flere ») doesn’t exclude some outstanding passages, as in the « Sancta Mater, istud agas ».
Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X 'Intorno a Pisendel' (2022)

Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge - Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X 'Intorno a Pisendel' (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 60:04 | 346 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: naïve

This tenth volume of violin concertos marks the return of Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge to the Vivaldi Edition, with works linked to Pisendel, a major musical figure in the court of Dresden in the 18th century. Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge released a hugely successful volume of Vivaldi concertos with a theatrical theme in 2020.
Sandrine Piau, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Si J’ai Aimé (2019)

Sandrine Piau, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Si J’ai Aimé (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 243 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | 00:59:23
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Sandrine Piau’s first recital for the ALPHA Label, with Susan Manoff (Chimères – Alpha 397), proved an enormous hit (Diapason d’Or of the year, Choc of the year, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice). Her new project is a recital with orchestra celebrating French song of the period when it moved from the private salon to the concert hall. Planned in partnership with the Palazzetto Bru Zane, this programme evokes anticipation, desire, pleasure, memory, in short all the vagaries of love experienced by a romantic heroine… To verses of the poets Hugo, Lamartine, Gautier, and Verlaine, Sandrine Piau has selected song settings by Saint-Saëns (L’attente, Papillons), Massenet (Extase, Aimons-nous), and Vierne, as well as by the rarely-heard Dubois, Guilmant, and Bordes…
Andreas Staier - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture (2022)

Andreas Staier, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 242 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:56:57
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, ‘one of the most heart-rending slow movements ever written by Mozart… Performers often tend to take it too slowly, certainly thinking that this will accentuate the tragic side, but Julien Chauvin and I spontaneously agreed on a slightly faster tempo, which respects the basic pulse of this movement in siciliana rhythm. When you start with the right tempo, it’s amazing how the whole discourse comes together perfectly, in a very logical and simple manner’, says Staier, who plays a magnificent instrument by Christoph Kern after a 1790 fortepiano by Anton Walter, the great maker of Mozart’s time. Also on the programme is the Symphony no.40, in which, says Julien Chauvin, ‘Mozart explores types of writing that he pushes to their most extreme limits. This is the case in the finale, where we find a succession of dissonant disjunct intervals at the opening of the development which, on closer inspection, present us with the full chromatic scale (except for G natural, the symphony’s tonic). And so the twelve-note series was born!’