John Williams – Star Wars: The Ultimate Digital Collection (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 06:56:23 minutes | 8,10 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source:HDTracks| © Sony Classical
The most acclaimed and enduring film music in Hollywood history, the original soundtracks of Star Wars Episodes I-VI will be reissued by Sony Classical. All composed by the legendary five-time Oscar®-winning composer, John Williams, this unique collection is being reissued after the latest chapter in the saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, opens in theaters.
Star Wars: The Ultimate Digital Collection features a bundle of the six original soundtracks available for the first time as high definition downloads (192kHz/24bit & 96kHz/24bit). (more…)
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John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:17:20 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source:7digital.com | © Lucasfilm Ltd.
Cover art included, liner notes not included
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is set 30 years after the events of “Return of the Jedi”, and features a new generation of swashbuckling heroes and shadowy villains, as well as the return of fan-favorite smugglers, princesses, and Jedi.
Lucasfilm and visionary director J.J. Abrams join forces to take you back again to a galaxy far, far away as Star Wars returns to the big screen with Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Make sure to experience the soundtrack by legendary, five-time Academy Award winning composer, John Williams. (more…)
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Led Zeppelin – How The West Was Won (Live) [Remastered] (1972/2003/2018)
Genre: Hard Rock | Year: 1972/2003/2018 | Quality: DVD-Audio (96kHz/24Bit, MLP 5.1) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 18 | Size: 5.61 Gb | Time- 02:27:23 | Covers: in archive | Release: Rhino Records
Led Zeppelin continue their campaign with a new edition of their celebrated live album How The West Was Won, originally released in 2003, featuring newly remastered audio, which was done under the supervision of Jimmy Page.HOW THE WEST WAS WON highlights the best performances from Led Zeppelin’s legendary concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena on June 25 and 27, 1972. Melded together and sequenced to replicate a single concert from beginning to end, it captures the band at the height of its formidable powers. Standouts include a 25-plus minute version of “Dazed And Confused” and a 21-minute medley based around “Whole Lotta Love.” The performances also capture the band introducing songs from its then-unreleased album Houses Of The Holy, which would be released nine months later.
Super Deluxe Boxed Set includes: Remastered audio on three CDs and four 180-gram vinyl LPs; DVD of album in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and PCM Stereo, plus photo gallery; High-def download card of all stereo audio content at 96kHz/24 bit; A book filled with rare and previously unpublished photos of the band at each of the concert locations, plus memorabilia and ephemera; High-quality print of the original album cover, the first 30,000 of which will be individually numbered.
https://www.rhino.com/product/how-the-west-was-won-live#super-deluxe-boxed-set
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This 60 disc box set contains 60 original ‘Living Stereo’ recordings. This is the first time a comprehensive collection of these iconic recordings has been created. Each album comes complete with its original LP artwork. An extensive booklet is included with the liner notes from each original album. Includes recordings by such great artists as Jascha Heifetz, Charles Munch, Fritz Reiner, Julian Bream, Leontyne Price and Arthur Rubinstein. Sony. 2012.
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Stereo-60-Collection-Box/dp/B003UCPEJ2
CD List
1. Various Living Stereo Sampler (Missing)
2. MUNCH, CHARLES/Saint-Sans: Symphony No. 3; Debussy: La Mer; Ibert: Escales
3. MUNCH, CHARLES/Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo
4. REINER, FRITZ/ Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Ein Heldenleben
5. REINER, FRITZ/Bartk: Concerto for Orchestra;Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
6. HEIFETZ, JASCHA /Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
7. CLIBURN, VAN /Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
8. FIEDLER, ARTHUR/Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; An American in Paris; Variations..
9. REINER, FRITZ /Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
10. PRICE, LEONTYNE/Leontyne Price: Arias
11. RUBINSTEIN, ARTHUR Chopin: Ballades & Scherzos
12. MONTEUX, PIERRE/Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathtique
13. GOULD, MORTON/Brass & Percussion
14. HEIFETZ, JASCHA/Sibelius, Prokofiev, Glazunov: Violin Concertos
15. MUNCH, CHARLES/Berlioz: Requiem 2CD
16. MUNCH, CHARLES/Berlioz: Requiem 2CD
17. MUNCH, CHARLES/Ravel: Bolro; La Valse; Rapsodie espagnole; Debussy: Images for Orchestra
18. PIATIGORSKY, GREGOR/Dvork; Walton: Cello Concertos
19. REINER, FRITZ/ Dvork: New World Symphony
20. REINER, FRITZ/Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
21. RUBINSTEIN, ARTHUR /Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
22. FIEDLER, ARTHUR/ Offenbach: Gat parisienne
23. CLIBURN, VAN/Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
24. FIEDLER, ARTHUR/Hi-Fi Fiedler
25. HEIFETZ, JASCHA/Brahms; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
26. MONTEUX, PIERRE/Franck:Symphony in D Minor;Stravinsky: Petrouchka
27. MUNCH, CHARLES/Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
28. MUNCH, CHARLES/Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Love Scene From Romeo & Juliet
29. REINER, FRITZ/Strauss: Scenes from Elektra & Salome
30. REINER, FRITZ/ Mahler: Symphony No. 4
31. RUBINSTEIN, ARTHUR Chopin: Piano Concertos
32. STOKOWSKI, LEOPOLD/ Rhapsodies
33. GOULD, MORTON/Copland: Billy The Kid & Rodeo; Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite
34. MOFFO, ANNA/Arias from Faust; La Bohme; Dinorah; Carmen; Turandot; Semiramide; Lakm
35. REINER, FRITZ/ Respighi: Pines Of Rome; Fountains Of Rome & Debussy: La Mer
36. REINER, FRITZ/Vienna
37. MUNCH, CHARLES/Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5; Octet: Scherzo
38. FIEDLER, ARTHUR/Pops Caviar
39. RUBINSTEIN, ARTHUR/Beethoven: Sonatas (Moonlight; Les Adieux; Pathetique; Appassionata)
40. HEIFETZ, JASCHA/Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Scottish Fantasy & Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5
41. LANZA, MARIO Mario! Lanza At His Best; Vagabond King Highlights
42. FOX, VIRGIL/ Encores
43. LEINSDORF, ERICH/Puccini: La Bohme 2CD
44. LEINSDORF, ERICH/Puccini: La Bohme 2CD
45. LEINSDORF, ERICH/Puccini: Madama Butterfly
46. LEINSDORF, ERICH/Puccini: Madama Butterfly
47. MOFFO, ANNA/Verdi: La Traviata 2CD
48. MOFFO, ANNA/Verdi: La Traviata 2CD
49. BJORLING, JUSSI/Puccini: Turandot 2CD
50. BJORLING, JUSSI/Puccini: Turandot 2CD
51. MUNCH, CHARLES/Schubert: Symphonies “The Great” & “Unfinished”
52. REINER, FRITZ/ Strauss: Don Quixote & Don Juan
53. HEIFETZ, JASCHA /Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
54. BREAM, JULIAN/Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar
55. PRICE, LEONTYNE/Albeniz: Navarra, Iberia; Falla: El amor
56. RUBINSTEIN, ARTHUR/Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2; Franck: Symphonic Variations;
57. MUNCH, CHARLES/Berlioz: Harold In Italy; The Roman Carnival Overture; Benvenuto Cellini Overture
58. REINER, FRITZ/Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde
59. REINER, FRITZ/Strauss: Symphonia Domestica; Suite From Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
60. CLIBURN, VAN/Schumann: Piano Concerto In A minor; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 “Emperor”
James Taylor – Before This World (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:51 minutes | 840 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Concord Records
Recorded at TheBarn in Washington, MA.
Before This World, five-time Grammy Award winner James Taylor’s long-awaited new album, is his first collection of new material since 2002’s October Road. Taylor wrote and recorded much of Before This World while touring over the past several years.
Recorded primarily at TheBarn in Western Massachusetts, the 10-track album will feature James’s legendary band: Jimmy Johnson, Steve Gadd, Michael Landau, Larry Goldings, Luis Conte, Andrea Zonn, Arnold McCuller, David Lasley and Kate Markowitz, as well as special guests Yo-Yo Ma and Sting. Kim and Henry Taylor provide background vocals on several songs. This hi-res version of Before This World was mastered especially for audiophiles with less peak limiting for a much greater dynamic range than the CD version. (more…)
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Сomposer: Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Title: New York City Ballet in Paris: Balanchine, New York – Paris
Release Date: 2017
Recorded: Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, juillet 2016
Genre: Classical, Ballet
Choreography: George Balanchine
Ballet Master: Peter Martins
Director: Vincent Bataillon
Conductor: Daniel Capps
Artist: The New York City Ballet, Orchestre Prométhée
Production/Label: BelAir Classiques/Outhere Distribution France
Duration: 01:41:22
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 23989 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1 /
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1916 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 21,2 GB
The New York City Ballet performs in Paris after an eight year absence. The production revolves around three great French composers who inspired NYCB founder George Balanchine: Charles Gounod, Maurice Ravel and Georges Bizet. The four ballets performed encapsulate Balanchine’s genius and his very own neo-classical style, they also provide a particular insight on the bonds that tied Balanchine to France. What is known today as Walpurgisnacht Ballet was a ballet choreographed for the opera Faust at the Paris Opera in 1975, it premiered as an independent piece in New York in 1980. Sonatine set to a music by Maurice Ravel, was created by two New York City Ballet’s French principals, the recently departed Violette Verdy and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. La Valse was originally composed by Ravel for the Ballets Russes and Serge Diaghilev, then exiled in France, shortly before Balanchine entered the company. Symphony in C better known as Le Palais de Cristal, premiered at the Paris Opera.
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Alexei Utkin, Hermitage Chamber Orchestra – Johann Sebastian Bach – Oboenwerke, vol.2 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:09 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD ISO | @ Caro MitisItem Number: CM 0032003
Recorded: 23-27.09.2003 5th Studio of The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) Moscow, Russia
Why, judging by the survived music scores, different bodies of musicians were allowed for performing many works by composers of the Baroque epoch? What are the rules according to which the baroque instrumental ensembles were being formed? How to be about modern transcriptions of the ancient compositions? There is the only way to answer these questions, that is — to comprehend the special features of the baroque music, its key categories. The notion of trio widespread in that epoch deserves special attention here.
The baroque trio is a much wider category than trio in classical or romantic music since it indicates not the number of performers but the number and correlation of the musical tissue’s fibres: two expressive melodic voices are based on harmonic foundation of the figured bass (continuo part usually performed by one, two or three musicians). Such trio mode of musical thinking was as customary and natural for baroque composers as melodies to the accompaniment — for musicians of the next epoch. Thanks to the universal principles of the trio boundaries between the genres of the baroque instrumental music are transparent: one triple-voiced basis may be realized by varied bodies of performers.
Alexei Utkin, Hermitage Chamber Orchestra – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Oboenkonzerte & Sonaten (2005)
FLAC (tracks) Stereo 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:18 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD ISO | Item Number: CM 0112004 | Digital Booklet | © Caro Mitis
Recorded: 22–24.08.2004 “Manege” Hall of The Moscow Theatre “School of Dramatic Art”
When, at the end of the 18th century in Germany, they talked of the “great Bach”, it was usually not Johann Sebastian they had in mind, who was admired at the time by just a few connoisseurs, but his second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel in whose powerful talent Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven delighted and whose influence extended even to the early romantics: Weber, Hoffmann, Mendelssohn. (more…)
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Сomposer: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Title: Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165
Release Date: 2017
Recording Date: April, 2014
Recording Location: deSingel, Antwerp
Genre: Classical, Choral
Director: Leonid Adamopoulos
Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
Artist: Ilse Eerens soprano, Bernarda Fink alto, Maximilian Schmitt tenor, Nathan Berg bass, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent
Production/Label: EuroArts Music International GmbH
Duration: 01:38:04
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 19475 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4026 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Latin
Size: 21,38 GB
Philippe Herreweghe, principal conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, has devoted himself for over ten years to fresh and invigorating readings of the (pre-) Romantic repertoire. Together with the Collegium Vocale, founded in 1970 by Philippe Herreweghe himself, and superb soloists they perform Dvořák’s Requiem. A modern and stylistically flexible symphony orchestra, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra demonstrates an artistic flair which allows for a variety of styles and occupies a unique position in Flanders. Collegium Vocale Gent were one of the first ensembles to use new ideas about baroque performance practice in vocal music. Their authentic, text-oriented and rhetorical approach gave the ensemble the transparent sound with which it would acquire world fame and perform at the major concert venues and music festivals all over the world. (more…)
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Сomposer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Title: Beethoven – Triple Concerto/Symphony No. 5
Release Date: 2017
Recorded: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, 12–13 January 2017
Genre: Classical
Director: Ute Feudel
Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt
Artist: Isabelle Faust violin, Jean-Guihen Queyras violoncello, Martin Helmchen piano, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Production/Label: Accentus Music GmbH
Duration: 01:18:53
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24947 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: German DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3922 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: German LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 21,22 GB
With this release, Accentus Music completes its Beethoven DVD trilogy with Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
More than 200 years after its premiere at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Martin Helmchen have congenially mastered the artistic challenge of Beethoven’s gemstone. Under Herbert Blomstedt’s sensitive direction, the soloists unite chamber musical intimacy together with virtuoso sophistication – and prove once again that the Triple Concerto is an unduly underestimated, much too rarely programmed masterpiece.
With the composer’s 5th Symphony, Blomstedt succeeds in achieving an entirely new perspective of this work. In the culmination of his three-year, intensive reenactment of Beethoven’s cosmos, the impressive sound that characterizes the Swedish grand seigneur’s conducting is heralded by transparency rather than showmanship, relevance instead of pathos, and tenderness in place of sentimentality.
This release marks the completion of the DVD/Blu-ray trilogy that started with Beethoven’s Ninth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies. It also leads the way to the release of all Beethoven Symphonies in June, recorded between 2014 and 2017 at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig – just in time for the maestro’s 90th birthday in July of this year.
Virpi Räisänen, Marita Viitasalo – The Legacy of Mahler (2012/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:11 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front cover | © Ondine
Ondine is pleased to announce the debut release of charismatic mezzo-soprano Virpi Räisänen. Having already performed as a successful violinist, Virpi Räisänen has since appeared as a singer at the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Netherlands Opera and the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher in Nono’s opera Al gran sole carico d’amore in 2009 and in the premiere of Wolfgang Rihms’s Dionysos in 2010.
Virpi Räisänen, one of the most sought after Finnish female singing talents at the moment, has garnered an impressive list of honours and achievements both as a mezzo soprano and earlier as a concert violinist. Next to her successful violin career singing was always her other passion, earning her singing diploma with the highest distinction. Her warm mezzo voice and her strong musicality is leading her from one success to another.
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Сomposer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Title: Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7; Choral Fantasy, Op. 80
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Classical
Director: Mari Inamasu, Yo Asari
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Artist: Saito Kinen Orchestra; Bonus: Martha Argerich piano, Lydia Teuscher soprano, Rie Miyake soprano, Nathalie Stutzmann alto, Kei Fukui tenor, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt tenor, Matthias Goerne baritone, OMF Chorus
Production/Label: EuroArts Music International GmbH
Duration: 01:23:01 + 00:24:18
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 21957 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3664 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 20,47 GB
Seiji Ozawa is not only a world-famous Japanese conductor, but also a founder and director of the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, home of the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which in 2015 was renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival (OMF). In this all-Beethoven program, Ozawa conducts the popular Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7, performed with his fellow colleagues of the Saito Kinen Orchestra.
In 2015, the commemorative first year as OMF, Seiji Ozawa conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 for the first time in 15 years. In 2016, he conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in Matsumoto for the first time in 23 years.
In addition to these two performances, bonus content features rare footage from the Celebrating Seiji at 80! Gala Concert. A total of 300 top-class musicians gathered from around the world on September 1, 2015 to celebrate Festival Director Ozawa’s 80th birthday. The centerpiece of this concert, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, is included in the extra. This rendition performed by pianist Martha Argerich, who appeared as a friend, and an array of soloists including Nathalie Stutzmann and Matthias Goerne, greatly delighted everyone in attendance. Choral Fantasy was not part of Argerich’s repertoire thus far and this will be the first release ever as footage. There is also valuable footage of Ozawa being serenaded with Happy Birthday by all and blowing out a birthday candle. (more…)
Сomposer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Title: Beethoven, Mendelssohn – Violin Concertos
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Classical
Director: Michael Beyer, Ute Feudel
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Artist: Nikolaj Znaider violin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Production/Label: Accentus Music GmbH
Duration: 01:24:49
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 22969 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: German DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4161 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: German LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 21.93 GB
The Daily Telegraph describes Nikolaj Znaider as “the most stimulating young musician playing today, drawing on musical intelligence, perception and dynamism to give performances of rare intensity.” This release presents one of the world’s foremost violinists playing two landmark concertos, accompanied by the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester ‐ “one of Europe’s finest orchestras” (The Guardian) ‐ under the baton of its music director Riccardo Chailly.
It was the Gewandhausorchester that, in 1845, first performed Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor. Mendelssohn himself had conducted Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major several times and helped this milestone in the history of music to its great breakthrough.
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Duration: 1:30:10 + 00:25:49 (bonus)
Year: 2018
Quality: Blu-ray
Video Resolution / Scan: 1080p
Container: BDMV
Video codec: H.264
Audio Codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29990 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16: 9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 2: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6853 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 33.94 GB
You might want to consider Norah Jones: Live at Ronnie Scott’s as something of a musical palate cleanser, especially if you’re prone to go for larger, arena rock like concert videos. This particular performance is absolutely minimalist from both a staging standpoint (as can probably be gleaned from the almost unavoidably repetitive screenshots accompanying this review), but also due to the fact that Jones is part of a trio. There’s a refreshing intimacy to this concert, one that harkens back to smoky jazz clubs of yore, with earnest chanteuses crooning songs of love and loss, but what sets this performance apart is the fact that Jones of course accompanies herself on piano, sings her own material, and has a really winningly winsome quality that doesn’t completely mask a kind of steely, if still sweet, foundation.
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Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre – Briceño: El Fenix de Paris (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:28 minutes | 663 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha
Don Luis: a Spaniard at the court of Louis XIII… Luis de Briceño’s arrival in France was marked by a wave of enthusiasm. The Spaniard was at the heart of a polemic that questioned the supremacy of the lute, an instrument cherished by French music lovers of the beginning of the 17th century. Our rekindled interest lies not in this controversy but in the beauty of Briceño’s compositions and the freedom they offer the musicians who play them. This man of incisive wit and character, nicknamed « El Fenix de Paris », once said about the polemic he caused: « Todos se burlan de mi y yo me burlo de todos, porque si me llaman asno ellos son neçios y tontos… » « Everyone makes fun of me and I make fun of everyone, because they call me a donkey they are crazy and foolish idiots… » On this album discover le Poème Harmonique in a repertoire bearing the marked touch of popular Spanish music, accompanied by the delightful song of Isabelle Druet and Claire Lefilliâtre.
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