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Victoria de los Ángeles - French Melodies (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 23, 2023
Victoria de los Ángeles - French Melodies (2023)

Victoria de los Ángeles - French Melodies (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 803 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 436 Mb | 03:09:01
Classical, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

It is generally accepted that Victoria de Los Angeles possessed one of the most beautiful soprano voices of the 20th Century. Her musicality was supported by a vocal timbre suffused with the bright warmth of an Iberian summer. Her appearances in the concert hall and opera house, and her first recordings, drew the highest accolades from the musical establishment, critics and public. Her personality, excellent technique and dedicated approach would have secured her place as a great singer in any age.
London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle - Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande (2017)

London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle - Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, front cover | 165:29 min | 546 MB
Label: LSO Live – LSO0790 | Tracks: 40 | Rls.date: 2017
Classical, Opera

Sir Simon Rattle leads an all-star cast in this highly anticipated new recording of Debussy’s evocative opera Pelléas et Mélisande. It was captured in January 2016 during performances of an innovative collaboration between Rattle and Peter Sellars, two of the boldest creative minds in music and theatre today.
VA - Claude Debussy - Debussy: Clair de lune and Other Masterpieces (2024)

VA - Claude Debussy - Debussy: Clair de lune and Other Masterpieces (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 861 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 564 MB
4:04:36 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Claude Debussy (born Achille-Claude Debussy) was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His mature compositions, distinctive and appealing, combined modernism and sensuality so successfully that their sheer beauty often obscures their technical innovation. Debussy is considered the founder and leading exponent of musical Impressionism (although he resisted the label), and his adoption of non-traditional scales and tonal structures was paradigmatic for many composers who followed. The son of a shopkeeper and a seamstress, Debussy began piano studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 11. While a student there, he encountered the wealthy Nadezhda von Meck (most famous as Tchaikovsky's patroness), who employed him as a music teacher to her children; through travel, concerts and acquaintances, she provided him with a wealth of musical experience. Most importantly, she exposed the young Debussy to the works of Russian composers, such as Borodin and Mussorgsky, who would remain important influences on his music.

VA - Debussy: His First Performers (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 18, 2018
VA - Debussy: His First Performers (2018)

VA - Debussy: His First Performers (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2,49 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,69 Gb | 12:15:43
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Claude Debussy, who died 100 years ago in March 1918, is one of history's greatest composers and the most influential of all French composers. A father of modern music, Debussy lived in the early days of the recording era.

Sabine Devieilhe - Mirages (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 10, 2017
Sabine Devieilhe - Mirages (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Sabine Devieilhe - Mirages (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 63:25 minutes | 1.02 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Soprano Sabine Devieilhe’s signature operatic role, Lakmé, forms the starting point for her enticing album Mirages. A collection of opera and song in French, its theme is the exotic allure of faraway – and imagined – places and people. In addition to three numbers from Delibes’ opera, it features music by Berlioz, Debussy and Stravinsky and some rarer names: Thomas, Messager, Koechlin and Delage. Devieilhe is joined by mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa, pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the period-instrument orchestra Les Siècles under its founder, François-Xavier Roth.
Pierre Dumoussaud, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2021) [Digital Download 24/96]

Pierre Dumoussaud, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Stanislas de Barbeyrac & Chiara Skerath - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 148:36 minutes | 2,39 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

The Covid pandemic caused the cancellation of the performances of Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, which approached Alpha in order to make an audio recording of this masterpiece. So here is that unexpected but highly anticipated new version, with an exceptional cast and a young conductor, Pierre Dumoussaud, whose calling card it is fast becoming, since he has already conducted it in many houses.

Pierre Dumoussaud - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 2, 2021
Pierre Dumoussaud - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2021)

Pierre Dumoussaud - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2021)
FLAC tracks | 2:28:36 | 562 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha

« Il n’arrive peut-être pas d’évènements inutiles », chante le vieil Arkel au premier Acte de Pelléas et Mélisande. Ici, c’est plutôt le non-évènement qui, paradoxalement, a rendu possible ce nouvel enregistrement de l’opéra de Debussy dont les réussites discographiques ne sont pas légion. Contraint d’annuler sa production à cause de la pandémie mondiale, l’Opéra de Bordeaux a décidé de garder le souvenir des longues séances de répétitions sous la forme d’un enregistrement de studio dans l’Auditorium de sa propre maison.

Sabine Devieilhe - Mirages (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 15, 2017
Sabine Devieilhe - Mirages (2017)

Sabine Devieilhe - Mirages
Classical, Vocal | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 63:25 min | 262 MB
Label: Warner Classics | Tracks: 15 | Rls.date: 2017

Soprano Sabine Devieilhe’s signature operatic role, Lakmé, forms the starting point for her enticing album Mirages. A collection of opera and song in French, its theme is the exotic allure of faraway – and imagined – places and people. In addition to three numbers from Delibes’ opera, it features music by Berlioz, Debussy and Stravinsky and some rarer names: Thomas, Messager, Koechlin and Delage. Devieilhe is joined by mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa, pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the period-instrument orchestra Les Siècles under its founder, François-Xavier Roth.
François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2022) [24/96]

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr - Debussy꞉ Pelléas et Mélisande (2022) [24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:34:06 minutes | 2,54 GB
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

I enjoyed the orchestral contributions of Les Siècles and the lucidity that period instruments bring to Debussy’s score. Roth doesn’t cut string vibrato entirely, but there’s an almost clinical clarity to their playing.
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Lorraine Hunt - Charpentier: Médée (1995)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Lorraine Hunt - Charpentier: Médée (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 955 Mb | Total time: 61:17+74:36+58:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato ‎| 4509-96558-2 | Recorded: 1994

Charpentier’s Médée is one of the glories of the Baroque. Medea’s betrayal by Jason, her comprehensive revenge and the plight of those caught up in this epic tragedy prompted Charpentier to compose music of devastating power. Transcending the constraints of the Lullian tragédie lyrique, he produced characterisations of astonishing complexity and invested vast stretches of music with a dramatic pace and a harmonic richness rivalled among contemporaries only by Purcell. The electrifying exchanges of the third act, mingling pathos with extreme violence, alone put Charpentier on the same imaginative level as Rameau and Berlioz. The machinations of the fourth act and the dénouement in the fifth maintain the same captivating impetus.