Karine Deshayes, Ensemble Contraste – Après un rêve (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:00 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording from French mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes and Ensemble Contraste explores familiar tunes of French Romanticism. Featuring works from Berlioz, Fauré, Gounod, Massenet and more, this delicious program paints a picture of music and life in the Parisian salons.
Read moreEnsemble Contraste – J.S. Bach: Transcriptions (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:43 minutes | 930 MB | Genre: Classical
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Moving from the harpsichord to the clavichord or the organ was probably easy enough for Johann Sebastian Bach. The source of the sound didn’t matter, because for the master of Leipzig, what counted were thought and intellect: the form, tonality and melodic contours ere more important than the instrument itself. And indeed, through this work of musical thought, Bach used different keyboards, prefiguring the instruments to come: the piano as a synthesis of the harpsichord, the organ and the clavichord.
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Ensemble Contraste – Une prière (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:51 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ernest Bloch’s Suite Hébraïque was the starting point for this programme: ‘This music came as a revelation to us. Its language is overwhelming and tells of the ravages of the twentieth century. The other composers in this programme (Ravel, Bloch, Bruch, Prokofiev, Shostakovich) each in their own way experienced the full force of this tormented century and drew inspiration from the most timeless and universal aspects of folk and sacred repertories, the better to respond to the brutality of the age’, say violist Arnaud Thorette and pianist Johan Farjot, who devised this programme. Johan Farjot has also arranged John Williams’s famous Schindler’s List theme for viola and cello. An intense and poignant experience, also featuring other superb artists: Antoine Pierlot (cello), Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), and Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu (violin).
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