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Simon Rattle, Berliner Philarmoniker - Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Ma Mère l'Oye (2009)

Simon Rattle, Berliner Philarmoniker - Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Ma Mère l'Oye (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 72:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 2 64197 2 | Recorded: 2008

The conducting of Simon Rattle is the most compelling element in this recording of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Berlin Philharmonic. Rattle draws playing of great delicacy and nuance from the orchestra, and the many sections that are scored as lightly as chamber music are played with especially loving attention to shaping the elegant and expressive phrases; the beginning of the second part of the opera is especially magical.
Christina Astrand, Johnny Teyssier, Henrik Dam Thomsen & Per Salo - Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, I/22 (2022)

Christina Astrand, Johnny Teyssier, Henrik Dam Thomsen & Per Salo - Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, I/22 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 192 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 118 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:46:59
Classical | Label: OUR Recordings

Messiaen’s most famous work, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), was composed while a captive in a German prisoner of war at Stalag VIII A, located near the town of Görlitz-Moys in Silesia, Germany. Messiaen met there three fellow prisoners who were also accomplished musicians: Etienne Pasquier, a world-class cellist who had already secured an international reputation as a member of the Pasquier Trio; Jean Le Bou-laire, a violinist who had studied at the Paris Conservatory; and Henri Akoka, a clarinetist who was a member of the Paris-based Orchestre National de la Radio. Together, this unusual ensemble formed the basis for one of the most extraordinary works of the 20th century.

Doris Day - The Complete Doris Day With Les Brown (1998) 2CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at April 21, 2024
Doris Day - The Complete Doris Day With Les Brown (1998) 2CDs

Doris Day - The Complete Doris Day With Les Brown (1998) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 470 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 313 Mb | Scans included
Label: Collectors' Choice Music | # CCM-029-2 | Time: 02:12:22
Genre: Big Band, Swing, Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop

Forty-two songs cut between November 1940 and August 1946, and the perfect companion to Bear Family's It's Magic box set – anyone who's been even tempted to own that will have to get this more modestly priced precursor to that material. Day's period singing with Les Brown is, today, regarded with a degree of love and affection reserved for Ella Fitzgerald's era with Chick Webb, or Frank Sinatra's work with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Yet Sony Music's own releases devoted to Doris Day and Les Brown spread the music around to several different CDs, and suffered from sound that, today, seems substandard. These newly remastered tracks, offered in chronological order, including one previously unissued song ("Are You Still in Love with Me"), not only display a far richer, warmer sound, but have been presented with the kind of care that is normally reserved for the best parts of a label's catalog – which these sides definitely are. Day's voice during this period (she was 16 when she cut her first sides with Brown) was an astonishingly expressive instrument.
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Doux silence (2024)

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Doux silence (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:02:07 | 252 Mb
Genre: Classical

'The air de cour has been with me for almost as long as I've been playing the flute… For me, it is one of the finest creations of French art. I have assembled these airs from the second half\u0301 of the seventeenth century to complete the exploration begun with Et la fleur vole (early seventeenth century, ALPHA314) and A l'ombre d'un ormeau (early eighteenth century, ALPHA342)', says Francois Lazarevitch in the introduction to this new release. 'I am particularly interested in combining the qualities of sound and breathiness of the voice and the flute.'Love songs, dance tunes and brunettes on pastoral themes follow one another in a programme at once moving and erudite. These miniatures are magnificently interpreted by the two outstanding singers who join the instrumentalists (lute, flute, musette, harp, viol) of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien: the soprano Julie Roset and the mezzo Lucile Richardot.
Marc Mauillon, Christian Rivet & Les Joueurs de Traverse - Traveling Songs (2024)

Marc Mauillon, Christian Rivet & Les Joueurs de Traverse - Traveling Songs (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 278 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:28
Classical, Vocal | Label: INCISES

A musical journey through Renaissance Europe via pieces that were highly popular and whose melodies were reused and varied by some of the best composers of the time.
Les Ombres, Margaux Blanchard & Sylvain Sartre - Destouches: Sémiramis (2021)

Les Ombres, Margaux Blanchard & Sylvain Sartre - Destouches: Sémiramis (2021)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 678 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 295 Mb | Covers included | 02:07:34
Classical, Opera | Label:

André Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749) was educated by the Jesuits and had a career as a Musketeer before resigning to study music with André Campra. His first ‘hit’ was the pastoral Issé in 1697, which was written for the court but immediately taken up by the Opéra in Paris. He rose to prominent positions in both contexts and Sémiramis was first performed in 1718. Influenced by the Italophile Campra, Destouches abandoned the traditional five-part string scoring of Lully and his followers and created a work that was perhaps too serious for its time: only now are we in a position to recognise his work as an important step along the road from the aesthetic of Lully to that of Rameau.
Marina Viotti, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - A Tribute to Pauline Viardot (2022)

Marina Viotti, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - A Tribute to Pauline Viardot (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 363 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:08
Classical, Vocal | Label: Aparté

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques make a foray into the Romantic repertoire with this tribute to Pauline Viardot, who was not only the most influential singer of the nineteenth century, but also a pedagogue and composer, whose gifts, personality and incomparable aura made her one of the leading figures of French Romanticism. Together the mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti and Christophe Rousset retrace Pauline Viardot’s versatile career and, taking up her great roles, present a musical portrait of a unique performer, who was unanimously acclaimed by the audiences of her time.
Arion Orchestre Baroque, Mathieu Lussier - Les soupers du roy (2023)

Arion Orchestre Baroque, Mathieu Lussier - Les soupers du roy (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:12:00 | 363 / 166 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Les Disques ATMA Inc.

The French spirit of the "Grand Siecle des Lumieres" shines through this new album with Arion Orchestre Baroque, conducted by Mathieu Lussier.Taking its name from a work composed by Michel-Richard Delalande, Les soupers du roy (The King's Supper) features works by French baroque composers including Andre Cardinal Destouches, Francois Colin de Blamont, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Francois Francoeur.All the scores used for this recording come from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), thanks to an exceptional partnership between Arion Orchestre Baroque and the CMBV.Under the auspices of Hotel des Menus-Plaisirs in Versailles, the collaboration between Arion and CMBV combines the expertise required to rediscover and promote French musical heritage of the 17th and 18th centuries. A cornerstone of Montreal's music scene for over forty years, Arion Baroque Orchestra is a pioneer in the Canadian world of early music on period instruments.
Les Reed - The Girl on a Motorcycle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968) Reissue 1996 [Re-Up]

Les Reed - The Girl on a Motorcycle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968) Reissue 1996
EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 229 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 111 Mb | Scans ~ 93 Mb
Soundtrack, Score, Easy Listening, Chanson | Label: RPM | # RPM 171 | 00:48:12

The late-'60s film starring Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon has a cult reputation, if only because it's one of Faithfull's few film appearances (and has rarely been seen, especially in the U.S.). The soundtrack has enough of a groovy late-'60s period feel to merit a cult reputation of its own, with its bordering-on-bizarre mix of solid '60s Hammond organ grooves, soothing quasi-classical interludes, lush '60s Europop along the lines of the theme from A Man and a Woman, and brief flashes of psychedelia and avant-gardisms. (Faithfull fans be cautioned: Marianne does not sing on the soundtrack at all.) The recurring motifs are quite insinuating, and treated with a number of imaginative arrangements, making this a pretty interesting find for fans of '60s Euro easy listening/pop hybrids, even if they're not interested in having a souvenir of the film. The CD reissue does the job right by adding good liner notes and three bonus cuts by vocalists Mireille Mathieu and Cleo Laine, who recorded these tracks after Les Reed added lyrics to three instrumental pieces from the film.
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr - Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (2022)

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | Cover | 02:37:55 | 568,69 МБ
Classical, Opera | Label: harmonia mundi

Why has Pelléas et Mélisande taken its place as one of opera’s greatest masterpieces? Debussy deployed a unique style in this work, flexible and natural, never forcing the prosody of words and phrases. In this new historically informed interpretation, François-Xavier Roth has endeavoured to do justice to this music that is at once so strong and so delicate, seconded by a handpicked cast of today’s finest French singers.