Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & Christoph Eschenbach – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 – Franck, Fauré & Poulenc (Bonus Track Version) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & Christoph Eschenbach – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 – Franck, Fauré & Poulenc (Bonus Track Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:40 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

From the overt Romanticism of Saint-Saëns to the nostalgia-laden modernity of Poulenc, Bruno Philippe takes us on a journey through (almost) a century of French cello music.Alongside Tanguy de Williencourt, he also performs the cello version of Franck’s famous Violin Sonata, one of the absolute peaks of nineteenth century chamber music.

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Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach – Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach – Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:53 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

With this new album devoted to Prokofiev, cellist Bruno Philippe continues his exploration of Russian music. Having already recorded a recital of Rachmaninov’s and Myaskovsky’s Sonatas with Jérôme Ducros, here he is reunited with his long-time musical partner Tanguy de Williencourt on the piano, but also with his mentor, conductor Christoph Eschenbach leading the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt. On the program, Prokofiev’s (surprisingly?) romantic Cello Sonata, coupled with his Sinfonia concertante, that Mount Everest of technical challenges – both works having been written for the great Rostropovitch, who gave them their first performances in 1950 and 1952.
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Bruno Philippe, Jérôme Ducros – Rachmaninov & Myaskovsky: Sonatas for Cello and Piano (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Bruno Philippe, Jérôme Ducros – Rachmaninov & Myaskovsky: Sonatas for Cello and Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:51 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

After a first album as part of the harmonia nova collection, which resulted in a well-deserved Victoire de la Musique Classique (category New Instrumental Soloist), Bruno Philippe continues his path on the harmonia mundi label.

This programme devoted to Rachmaninoff and the unfairly neglected Myaskovsky is a genuine technical and artistic challenge, which the young cellist has taken up in total harmony with his long term musical partner Jérôme Ducros.

Be swept away by the swirling passions of these works, among the most romantic in Russian musical literature.
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Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt – Bruno Philippe & Tanguy de Williencourt – harmonia nova #5 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt – Bruno Philippe & Tanguy de Williencourt – harmonia nova #5 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:26 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Bruno Philippe has studied with David Geringas, Steven Isserliss, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since October 2014, he has been studying as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. He has won many competitions and in 2017, he is laureate of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.

During the next few months, Bruno Philippe can be seen in concertos, above all with the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt and Orchesterakademy of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.
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Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt – Brahms & Schumann: Works for Cello and Piano (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt – Brahms & Schumann: Works for Cello and Piano (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:54 minutes | 2,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Evidence

For their first recording, Bruno Philippe and Tanguy de Williencourt have chosen three masterpieces of Romantic chamber music. Throughout this programme, the piano carries on a dialogue with the full, warm sound of the cello in a fascinating polyphony.

This recording bears witness to a unique moment of poetry, magic and complicity.
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Bruno Philippe – J.S. Bach: The Complete Cello Suites (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Bruno Philippe – J.S. Bach: The Complete Cello Suites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:04:05 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bruno Philippe conceives Bach’s Suites for solo cello as a veritable existential journey, from life to death and resurrection. Forgoing metal strings for their historical gut equivalents, the young French artist offers us an inward, deeply moving reading of this monument of instrumental music.
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