Louis Chedid L’inspiration

Compositeur, pédagogue et joueur de basse de viole à la cour, Marin Marais haussa le jeu de la viole soliste au plus haut niveau de raffinement. Il composa plus de cinq cents pièces, toutes annotées avec précision, sur lesquelles se mesurèrent tous les joueurs de viole de l’époque. Il publia cinq livres pour cet instrument dont certains en duo ou trio.

The resulting 2 box set, unlike any other available today, groups together the main vocalists in the story of jazz from the first half of the 20th century. Each of these 20 CDs offers in more or less the same proportion, the purest of African-American song with gospel and blues singers, from truculent Ma Rainey to majestic Bessie Smith, sophisticated Sarah Vaughan to popular Louis Prima, the folk-related tones of Charlie Patton to the honeyed voice of Frank Sinatra.

Jazz is a music genre that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a very wide range of music, making it difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swing note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles such as ragtime. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

The Harmonia Nova series welcomes young artists singled out for their exceptional talents by offering them a technical, editorial and promotional showcase that lives up to the high standards of Harmonia Mundi’s classical productions. To counter received ideas about the organ - such is the unusual project of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas in this recording show casing the salon organ of Royaumont, which expresses the emotions and reveries of a chamber repertory rarely played in this guise. A poetic panorama interpreted with a range of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulasgifted partners.

The Ariadne’s thread unwound by Louis Sclavis throughout his travels and musical adventures naturally leads him to write original melodies, nourished here and there by a sonic audacity and a timeless aesthetic well known to the public. His new album, ‘Les Cadences du Monde’, is a sort of bubbling case of imagined music inspired by the photographic work ‘L’Usure du monde’ by Frédéric Lecloux.

Jordi Savall - Jean-Philippe Rameau - L'Orchestre de Louis XV (2011) {2CD Set Alia Vox AVSA 9882A+B}
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Classical / Baroque / Orchestral

Following the success of the albums L’orchestre de Louis XIII (Philidor) and L’orchestre du Roi Soleil (Lully), Jordi Savall explores another dynastic opus, this time focusing on music by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Once again, Le Concert des Nations sparkles in these four orchestral suites, which exemplify the genius of the great French composer. With glistening orchestral colors and breathtaking virtuosity, Savall and his group demonstrate their special affinity with the repertoire of the XVIIIth century. Offered at a special low price, this high-resolution recording is a must-have for anyone interested in this repertoire.

Compositeur, pédagogue et joueur de basse de viole à la cour, Marin Marais haussa le jeu de la viole soliste au plus haut niveau de raffinement. Il composa plus de cinq cents pièces, toutes annotées avec précision, sur lesquelles se mesurèrent tous les joueurs de viole de l’époque. Il publia cinq livres pour cet instrument dont certains en duo ou trio.

Le Troisième Livre de Pièces de Viole (1711) « composées par M. Marais, Ordinaire de la musique de la Chambre du Roy » outre le fait qu’elles sont composées pendant les dix années les plus prolifiques de son compositeur, montre parfaitement le style français du début du XVIIIe siècle. Reconnu, il est joué dans toutes les cours d’Europe, où l’on s’imprègne du « goût français ». Si la majorité des morceaux sont issus de la danse, avec des sarabandes, menuets, gigues, allemandes, préludes ou fantaisies, s’y ajoutent des pièces plus originales ne provenant pas de ce domaine : une Fugue gay, le Moulinet, la Saillie du Café, les Contrefaiseurs…

Thomas-Louis Bourgeois (1676–1751) is one of the masters of the French chamber cantata at the time of the Régence, when – at last – it was permissible to introduce Italian influences openly in France. His imaginative music, as elegant as it is compositionally skillful, forms a welcome complement to the works of contemporaries such as Campra or Rameau who are infinitely better known today. Carolyn Sampson and Le Concert Lorrain revive for us the charming insouciance of the Régence.