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Emanuele Torquati - Albert Roussel: Promenade Sentimentale, Complete Piano Music (2012) 2CDs

Emanuele Torquati - Albert Roussel:
Promenade Sentimentale: Complete Piano Music (2012) 2CDs

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 282 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 388 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94329 | Time: 02:02:05

The French composer Albert Roussel (1869-1937) was ideally placed to develop a unique musical style. His background was more colourful than most of his fellow composers (he initially studied mathematics and worked as a naval officer before devoting himself to music), while his early years as a composer saw him exposed to a barrage of rich but conflicting musical influences: the impressionist movement (spearheaded by Debussy) and the more traditional approach of the Schola Cantorum (championed by d'Indy and Franck). Roussel absorbed the wide-ranging styles that he heard around him, blending and modifying them to establish his own distinctive voice – a voice that can be perceived clearly in his music for solo piano. Traditional musical forms are a frequent point of inspiration: in the Suite in F sharp Op.14, Roussel uses rustic dances as a basis to explore both counterpoint and tonal disintegration, while the Bach-inspired Prélude et Fugue demonstrates the neo-Classical style that he was drawn to in his later period. Above all, Roussel's piano music is characterised by its unique synthesis of rationality and feeling.
Marek Janowski, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - Albert Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (1996)

Marek Janowski, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - Albert Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 475 Mb | Total time: 119:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Victor Red Seal | # 09026-62511-2 | Recorded: 1993, 1994

The fact that Roussel's four symphonies aren't better known is a pity, but surely the fault of his own countrymen. Symphonies were never a French specialty, and of the four great French practitioners of the symphonic art at the first decades of this century (Honegger, Roussel, Tournemire, and Magnard), only Honegger seems to have firmly established himself in the international repertoire. While Roussel's Third was championed by conductors like Charles Munch and Leonard Bernstein, even in France the remaining works are neglected. They are, however, one and all, excellently crafted pieces: tuneful, pithy, and very listenable. If you like one, you'll like them all; so this first-rate set is both good listening and good sense.
Pierre Boulez conducts Maurice Ravel & Albert Roussel (2009) 4CD Box Set

Pierre Boulez conducts Maurice Ravel & Albert Roussel (2009) 4CD Box Set
BBC Symphony Orchestra; The Cleveland Orchestra; Ensemble Intercontemporain
New York Philharmonic; Philippe Entremont (piano); Harold Gomberg (oboe)
Jessye Norman (soprano); Jill Gomez (soprano); José van Dam (baritone)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.14 Gb | Scans included | Time: 04:48:51
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88697562292

A milestone of music making, this 4 CD boxed set collects Maurice Ravel’s lush orchestral oeuvre in a collection of defining performances conducted by Pierre Boulez. A vivid testament to the ineffable incalculable role a conductor fills in any interpretation, ‘Pierre Boulez Conducts Ravel’ includes many of Ravel’s best known compositions along with the valuable addition of less recorded and long out of print gems such as Jessye Norman’s luminous Chansons Madécasses with members of Ensemble InterContemporaín and the Piano Concerto in D major for the Left Hand, played thrillingly here by Phillipe Entremont with an inspired lights out Cleveland Orchestra. Boulez’s prowess with the music of Ravel takes many forms, robust, muscular, capable of great tenderness, inquisitive, insouciant, and this collection of almost 5 hours of music allows one to immerse completely within the rich motherlode of genius that was Maurice Ravel. Includes informative 28-page booklet.
Thibaut Roussel - Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV's Chamber: Lully, Marais, Visée, Lalande (2020)

Thibaut Roussel - Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV's Chamber: Lully, Marais, Visée, Lalande (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 347 Mb | Total time: 74:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS029 | Recorded: 2019

Night is falling. In this twilight of the reign of Louis XIV and at the end of his Grand Coucher, the king is at last free from protocol. He then orders the musicians of the Kings Chamber, to come to him; they are the most excellent in the kingdom. These Petits Concerts which were held in the evening before His Majesty enabled the king to hear his preferred repertoire from all that he had loved and even danced to. Here is the Sleep scene from Lullys Atys, the Sombres Deserts by Lambert, the Mutine by Visee, the Grande Piece Royale by Lalande, A Gigue by Marais, La Plainte by La Barre Thibaut Roussel has gathered around him the finest interpreters of the French baroque repertoire, to give us, as if in a walking dream, the intimate music of this Coucher du Roi. Let the night last, sings Le Camus, right up until Couperins Land of Dodo.

Albert Roussel - Complete Chamber Music (2007)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at May 9, 2023
Albert Roussel - Complete Chamber Music (2007)

Albert Roussel - Complete Chamber Music (2007)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:18:34 | 818 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | Catalog: 8413

Written between 1902 and 1937, these are stylistically diverse works of Albert Roussel, ranging from the Romantic to the Impressionist to the neo-classical. Roussel is always melodically attractive, formally inventive, technically brilliant, and harmonically appealing. In these consistently strong and persuasive performance by a variety of mostly Dutch musicians, Roussel's rarely heard chamber works sound as fine as is imaginable.
Eugénie Lefebvre, Étienne Bazola, Zachary Wilder, Thibaut Roussel, Mathilde Vialle - Visages d'Orphée (2023)

Eugénie Lefebvre, Étienne Bazola, Zachary Wilder, Thibaut Roussel, Mathilde Vialle - Visages d'Orphée: Cantates de Clérambault, Piroys & Rameau (2023)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 62:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS088 | Recorded: 2021

Behold Orpheus, the singing shepherd who braved the Underworld to bring back Eurydice. The only human to conquer death, this famous Thracian bard is the hero of the French cantatas that flourished between 1710 and 1730. They paint a picture of the faithful husband’s burning ardour and pleas, his hypnotic song that won over the King of Darkness, his furtive glance that would forever rob him of his beloved; these are miniature operas, their intense poignancy rendered by the chamber choir that magnificently envelops the singer. This fine team masterfully weaves a tapestry of emotions, the early gems of the Rocaille period, offering a sequel to the Coucher du Roi with which they gifted us two years ago. This truly is the spirit of Versailles.
Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris - Albert Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 (2007)

Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris - Albert Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 66:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE1092-2 | Recorded: 2005

For a work composed originally as independent items, Roussel's impressionist First Symphony (1904-06) works surprisingly well. True, its structure is unorthodox, each of the four movements – which form a seasonal cycle from winter to autumn – larger than its predecessor, but it all flows together remarkably well, adding up to rather more than a picturesque set of tonepoems or suite. Small wonder it so impressed early audiences.
Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris - Albert Roussel: Symphony No.2; Bacchus et Ariane (2006)

Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris - Albert Roussel: Symphony No.2; Bacchus et Ariane (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 77:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1065-2 | Recorded: 2005

This Albert Roussel disc couples the Second Symphony with one of the composer's most popular pieces, the complete ballet music for Bacchus et Ariane. It is the first in a cycle of three releases featuring the four symphonies and two ballets by the French composer, performed by the Orchestre de Paris and Christoph Eschenbach.
Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris - Albert Roussel: Symphony No.3; Le Festin de l'araignée (2008)

Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris - Albert Roussel: Symphony No.3; Le Festin de l'araignée (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 245 Mb | Total time: 59:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1107-2 | Recorded: 2005

This Albert Roussel disc couples the Third Symphony with one of the composer's most popular pieces, the complete music for the one-act pantomime ballet Le Festin de l'araignée. This recording completes a cycle of three releases featuring the four symphonies and two ballets by the French composer, performed by the Orchestre de Paris and music director Christoph Eschenbach. This series has contributed to the rediscovery and recent revival of the great French composer's music.
Paavo Järvi, Tapiola Sinfonietta - French Orchestral Music: Poulenc, Jolivet, Roussel, Ibert (1993)

Paavo Järvi, Tapiola Sinfonietta - French Orchestral Music: Poulenc, Jolivet, Roussel, Ibert (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 65:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-CD-630 | Recorded: 1993

It’s simple: [Järvi] takes the lunacy [in the Ibert] to an inspired new level, from the very first ear-splitting trombone raspberry. The Tapiola Sinfonietta…plays with guts, virtuosity, and madcap inspiration.