Denis Villenueve

Recréer le chant de la Grèce antique était l’idéal des compositeurs de la Renaissance. Le printemps (publié en 1603) de Le Jeune — sur des textes de Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532-1589) qui cherche à appliquer à la langue française les qualités métriques de la poésie de l'Antiquité — est le recueil le plus célèbre de "chansons mesurées à l'antique" dans lesquelles les syllabes longues et courtes des paroles sont rigoureusement assignées aux notes blanches et noires de la musique, créant une intéressante asymétrie rythmique.

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) not only enriched the piano repertoire with his colourful and lyrical music, but simultaneously captured the Norwegian landscape, folk tales and fantasy creatures in sounds, putting his fatherland on the cultural and musical map.

The Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and its Music Director Gustavo Gimeno present a composer portrait of César Franck. The album features the famous Symphony in D Minor, as well as the lesser known, but equally enchanting Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, with Denis Kozhukhin as soloist.

Francis I, as a princely patron of the arts, realised that music was a very useful tool for his policy of prestige: official music for great diplomatic events like the amazing musical ‘tournament’ between the Chapelle of the King of France and the Chapel Royal of Henry VIII of England at the Mass for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, reconstructed in this recording.

Maurice Ravel has created some of his major pieces in the Salle Gaveau : the Valses nobles et sentimentales, Le Tombeau de Couperin, the Trio avec Piano and Tzigane. It is the task of Svetlin Roussev, Aurélien Pascal, David Lively and Denis Pascal to perform these mythical works in the context of their creation.

Hot on the heals of his “Mingus Sessions” album released earlier this year, Denis Gäbel returns with his latest album, “The Good Spirits – Part 2”.

Maurice Ravel has created some of his major pieces in the Salle Gaveau : the Valses nobles et sentimentales, Le Tombeau de Couperin, the Trio avec Piano and Tzigane. It is the task of Svetlin Roussev, Aurélien Pascal, David Lively and Denis Pascal to perform these mythical works in the context of their creation.

"GRACE" unfolds my experience as an adopted Korean in Belgium, weaving together melodies that offer comfort and solace. This album feels especially intimate, reflecting my personal journey and emotions as a father and as a human.

For bandoneonist and composer Denis Plante, tango evokes the old-fashioned melancholy of the bandoneon, an instrument that whispers melodies of bygone elegance. Stéphane Tétreault‘s Stradivarius cello infuses tango with another layer of deep vibrations. With the new album Stradivatango, Plante presents original tango compositions including Stradivatango, Tango romance, and Ménage à trois, paired with tangos by such emblematic composers of the genre as Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Gardel, and Ángel Villoldo.

Marenzio spent much of his later career in the service of influential ecclesiastical patrons in Rome, in particular Cardinal Luigi d’Este, a member of the ruling family of Ferrara, important patrons of the arts. After the cardinal’s death he was for a time in Florence in the service of Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was a prolific composer of vocal music and is best known today for his madrigals, although he wrote a considerable quantity of sacred music.