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Maîtrise De Radio France - Noël éternel (2018) [Official Digital Download]

Maîtrise De Radio France - Noël éternel (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 26:45 minutes | 267 MB
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Ever since that first angelic night, Christmas has been celebrated in song. In the baroque period, many composers such as Charpentier have composed original masterpieces based on simple folk tunes. Here in a special double album edition are baroque carols from the choir of La Maîtrise de Radio France, with Les Musiciens de Saint Julien, as well as the best-known French Christmas carols (Les anges dans nos campagnes, Venez divin messie…) from the Maîtrises of Radio France and Notre-Dame de Paris. The two internationally renowned children’s choirs combine to celebrate the Nativity and share with us these timeless songs.
Enrique Mazzola, Markus Werba & Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France - Mahler - Bruckner (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Enrique Mazzola, Markus Werba & Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France - Mahler - Bruckner (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 59:12 minutes | 0.98 GB
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Mahler and Bruckner both are composers who have designed immense symphonic worlds based on intimate writings. This is the main theme of this album, which is Enrique Mazzola’s fifth album conducting l’Orchestre national d’le-de-France. It unites these two emblematic composers of the Germanic classical repertoire, with Mahler’s magnificent orchestral Lieder (Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), beautifully performed by baritone Markus Werba, and completed by Bruckner’s Vier Orchesterstücke.
The Jef Gilson Nonet - New Call From France (1966/2016) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

The Jef Gilson Nonet - New Call From France (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 33:13 minutes | 643 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Although largely overlooked even in his native France, an avid cult has been building around Jef Gilson’s music. The eclectic Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame collects pressings, and journalist Gilles Peterson has praised his recordings. Composer, pianist, sound engineer, producer, label owner, Gilson played bop, modal, free, world music. Jean-Luc Ponty and Michel Portal first found their footing working with Gilson. Nathan Davis, Woody Shaw, Philly Joe Jones, David Murray, hung out, recorded and toured with Gilson. Archie Shepp, Randy Weston, Martial Solal, Steve Lacy made albums in Gilson’s studio. This album’s first four pieces comprise the Suite Pour San Remo.
Daniele Gatti & Orchestre national de France - Debussy: La mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faun; Images (2012) [24/48]

Daniele Gatti & Orchestre national de France - Debussy: La mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faun; Images (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 68:39 minutes | 651 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

In 2012 the music world celebrates the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth. To mark the occasion, Sony Classical is releasing a new recording of some of the composer's best-known orchestral masterpieces with the Orchestre National de France under the baton of its director of music, Daniele Gatti.
Emmanuel Krivine & Orchestre national de France - Debussy: La Mer & Images (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Emmanuel Krivine & Orchestre national de France - Debussy: La Mer & Images (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 61:10 minutes | 1.07 GB
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Debussy began composing La Mer in 1904, in Burgundy, but as he wrote to fellow composer André Messager, his memories of the sea were “worth more than a reality whose charm generally weighs tooheavily on the imagination”. He continued to work on the score, however, while staying in Jersey, and then in Dieppe.
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - Debussy: La Damoiselle élue,Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes (2022) [24/48]

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - Debussy: La Damoiselle élue,Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes (2022) [24/48]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 68:52 minutes | 634 MB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with ALPHA CLASSICS and this time present a special Debussy program together with the children's choir Maîtrise de Radio France: In addition to the early secular cantata La Damoiselle élue (1888), the symphonic fragments from Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (1911)…
Karen Coker Merritt - Canteloube- L'arada & Chants de France (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Karen Coker Merritt - Canteloube- L'arada & Chants de France (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 61:45 minutes | 989 MB
Classical | Label: Centaur Records, Inc., Official Digital Download

French composer Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957) made a life's work of collecting, transcribing, and arranging folksongs. His Chants d'Auvergne has long been very popular.
Victor Julien-Laferrière, Orchestre National de France - Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain - Dusapin: Outscape (2023) [24/48]

Victor Julien-Laferrière, Orchestre National de France - Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain - Dusapin: Outscape (2023) [24/48]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 54:36 minutes | 536 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Victor Julien-Laferrière, winner in 2017 of the first Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium dedicated to the cello, presents here two French works for cello and orchestra: Outscape by Pascal Dusapin: "The title itself carries the musical project (…) a word rich in meaning that indicates a variety of meanings from the most common to the most philosophical. Outscape is the way or opportunity to escape, to invent a path of one's own.
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Marcus Creed - France (2018) [Official Digital Download]

SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Marcus Creed - France (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 69:58 minutes | 656 MB
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French intellectuals, especially musicians and writers, were enchanted by the magic of Richard Wagner's music, but they earnestly wanted to pursue new ideas for what might follow. They believed that music and art should be free from 'German elements' and they consequently wanted to establish a decidedly contrasting, French style of music. It was for this reason that Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns set up the Societé Nationale de Musique in 1871, tasking it with supporting new French compositions. Successive composers were fascinated by new developments in the great French music tradition and experimented with modal alternatives and aspects of counterpoint. Compositional clarity was expected to express the simple but poetic relationship between music and text, drawing on graceful melodic lines and a Renaissance-like serenity of expression.
Pierre Génisson & David Bismuth - Made in France (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Pierre Génisson & David Bismuth - Made in France (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 58:49 minutes | 851 MB
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The talented young French clarinetist Pierre Génisson, a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire, has chosen to devote his first solo recording – on the Aparté label – to music that, as he puts it, “is part of [his] DNA”. To a programme of French music, therefore, with works by Claude Debussy, Ernest Chausson, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jean Françaix, Francis Poulenc and Jules Massenet: pieces of rare sensitivity and emotion, written for clarinet and piano, all of them composed, in close collaboration with professors of the Paris Conservatoire, for the exit examinations of that institution. The compositions span some hundred and fifty years.