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Éric Le Sage, Gävle Symfoniorkester, François Leleux – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 KV 491 & 17 KV 453 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:11 minutes | 1003 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mozart’s piano concertos form a set that is not just exceptional but absolutely unique in the history of music: from No. 9 to No. 27, all are definitive masterpieces. According to H.C. Robbins Landon, an eminent specialist in the composer’s life and work, ‘It is above all their immense stylistic diversity that places Mozart’s piano concertos above and beyond those of his contemporaries’. What these scores also share is their position at a crossroads for strongly impacting influences: that of the symphony, encouraging Mozart to make lavish use of the orchestra; the wind bands of the Imperial court, shaping his enhanced role for the woodwinds; and the influence of the opera, whose styles he worked into these concertos, often treating the dialogue between piano and orchestra as if they were stage characters. In this new recording, Eric Le Sage is joined by the Gävle Symfoniorkester to perform the 17th and 24th concertos for piano and orchestra by the Salzburg composer.
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Pierre Fouchenneret, Lise Berthaud, Francois Salque, Eric Le Sage – Brahms: Quatuors pour piano et cordes (Intégrale musique de chambre), Vol. 1 [Live at Beauvais, 2017] (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:54:31 minutes | 2,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album is the outcome of four musicians who decided to play all Brahm’s chamber music in only a few months, and record it so that it exists an integral version of his repertoire, played by one ensemble only.
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Eric Le Sage – Robert Schumann: Complete Chamber Music With Piano (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 07:18:16 minutes | 5,89 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
With the participation of: Denis Pascal, François Leleux, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Gordan Nikolitch, Lise Berthaud, Paul Meyer, Christophe Coin, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Frank Braley, François Salque, Bruno Schneider, Daishin Kashimoto, Antoine Tamestit
Schumann’s chamber compositions are undoubtedly among the most important European works of the nineteenth century. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was the archetypal Romantic composer, a man with unbounded imagination, who mastered almost every genre of his time. His chamber music, which may be regarded as an extension of his piano music, enabled him to explore the construction of his works.
This new box-set from ALPHA (seven CDs) presents for the first time Schumann’s complete chamber music with piano, played by one of the great Schumann interpreters, who has been exploring this world with great success since 2005: Eric Le Sage. The pianist is joined here by outstanding musicians Paul Meyer, Francois Salque, Franck Braley, Antoine Tamesit and others, who enable the listener to appreciate to the full these masterful works, written by genius of German Romanticism.
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Eric Le Sage – Robert Schumann: Complete Chamber Music With Piano (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 07:18:16 minutes | 5,89 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
With the participation of: Denis Pascal, François Leleux, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Gordan Nikolitch, Lise Berthaud, Paul Meyer, Christophe Coin, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Frank Braley, François Salque, Bruno Schneider, Daishin Kashimoto, Antoine Tamestit
Schumann’s chamber compositions are undoubtedly among the most important European works of the nineteenth century. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was the archetypal Romantic composer, a man with unbounded imagination, who mastered almost every genre of his time. His chamber music, which may be regarded as an extension of his piano music, enabled him to explore the construction of his works.
This new box-set from ALPHA (seven CDs) presents for the first time Schumann’s complete chamber music with piano, played by one of the great Schumann interpreters, who has been exploring this world with great success since 2005: Eric Le Sage. The pianist is joined here by outstanding musicians Paul Meyer, Francois Salque, Franck Braley, Antoine Tamesit and others, who enable the listener to appreciate to the full these masterful works, written by genius of German Romanticism.
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François Salque & Eric Le Sage – Beethoven: Sonates pour violoncelle et piano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:17 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Beethoven was one of the first composers to reveal the expressive and technical qualities of the cello, both in his symphonic works and in his chamber music. Some illustrious predecessors (Bach, Geminiani or Vivaldi) had already worked on the creation of an autonomous repertoire of concertos and sonatas for the cello, but Beethoven transformed the former instrument of accompaniment and support of the continuo into a true partner of a music based on dialogue, exchange, and contrast.
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Emmanuel Pahud, Eric Le Sage – Romances (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:02 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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The SWR called him a “magician”, the Tagespiegel compared him to Pan, the Greek god of flute playing. Without a doubt, there is hardly anyone who can hold a candle to the flutist Emmanuel Pahud in his field. On his album Romances, together with pianist Eric Le Sage, he delves into the world of Romanticism: a great musical passion within his wide-ranging repertoire, which extends from the Baroque to the modern.
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Les Vents Français with Éric Le Sage – Winds & Piano (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:59:34 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Classical
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These are top-notch performances of not always top-notch music. The piano quintets of Mozart and Beethoven need no special pleading, and this international ensemble are at their best in the dreamy opening and the finale’s cadenza of the Mozart. The French timbre characterised by Franois Leleux’s plangent oboe sounds well suited to Poulenc’s racy sextet and the fine one-movement Divertissement by Roussel. More dispensable are Louise Farrenc’s amiable sextet, a pioneering work of 1852, and Andr Caplet’s oddly irritating quintet of 1899. The third disc has a sextet by Strauss’s friend Ludwig Thuille, boldly symphonic in scope, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s extremely enjoyable, bubbly quintet. But are eight piano-and-wind works in succession just too much of a good thing?
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Eric Le Sage, Daishin Kashimoto – Gabriel Fauré – 5: Sonates pour violon, Berceuse, Romance (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:56 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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This final instalment in this complete recording of Gabriel Fauré’s chamber music features his compositions for violin and piano. Eric Le Sage and Daishin Kashimoto, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, give us a particularly convincing and moving interpretation of these intimist works, thanks to a complicity polished in the course of numerous collaborations in concert.
Gabriel Fauré was 30 when he began his first violin sonata in the summer of 1875. Not until four decades later, when he was director of the Paris Conservatoire, would he get round to a second sonata. More than an anthological disc, the present volume paints the portrait of a life, bearing witness to the change in civilization between the waning 19th century and the coming upheavals of the 20th.
This last volume brings to a close a complete recording of reference, based on Eric Le Sage’s capacity for federating first-rank artists around him. This original approach was hailed by the international critics for his first complete recording, devoted to Schumann.
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Eric Le Sage, Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuel Pahud, Pierre Colombet, Raphaël Merlin, François Salque – Gabriel Fauré – 4: Duos et trios avec piano (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:30 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
For the fourth and penultimate volume of his Fauré series, Eric Le Sage has been joined by Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuel Pahud, and François Salque, long-standing accomplices, in order to record these pieces for four hands. Recipient of numerous prizes both in France and abroad, this complete Fauré series is already asserting itself as a reference for the interpretation of Gabriel Fauré’s chamber music with piano.
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Eric Le Sage, Quatuor Ébène – Gabriel Fauré – 3: Quintettes avec piano, Op. 89 & 115 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:11 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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In a genre set by Boccherini and represented in the nineteenth century by the masterpieces of Schumann, Brahms and Franck, Gabriel Fauré composed two scores that were very different from his early romances and the evanescent ‘lullaby ofdeath’ that is the Requiem. The Piano Quintet op. 89 remains little known, for reasons related to its composition as much as to its history. Regarded by Koechlin a some of Fauré’s finest work, it serves as a transition to the composer’s final stylistic period. Opus 115, surprisingly less melancholy than its predecessor, is one ofthe composer’s last productions. In the evening of his life Faure demonstrated his supreme mastery and prodigious creative power, giving French chamber music, which he served so well, one of its finest monuments.
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Eric Le Sage, Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, François Salque – Gabriel Fauré – 2: Quatuors avec piano, Op. 15 & 45 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:04 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Between 1875 and his death in 1924, Fauré produced ten or so compositions that are among the jewels of the French chamber repertoire, written at a time when opera and symphonic music were the predominant genres.
The international artist Eric Le Sage, who is a specialist in this repertoire, continues his exploration of the complete chamber music with piano of Gabriel Fauré, accompanied by a fine team of first-rate artists.This second volume, expertly recorded by Jean-Marc Laisné in the wonderful setting of the MC2 Auditorium in Grenoble, shows extraordinary energy and elegance. The first volume was awarded the highest ratings by the music magazine Classica in December 2011.
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Eric Le Sage, François Salque, Paul Meyer – Gabriel Fauré – 1: Œuvres pour violoncelle & piano – Trio (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:13:58 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Following the successful edition of Schumann’s complete works, Eric Le Sage and Alpha have decided to produce a new series of 5 CD’s dedicated to Gabriel Fauré’s complete works for chamber music with piano. This series in general and its first volume in particular, constitute a milestone in Alpha’s development as they are the first of a line devoted to music from the post-Mozart period. Each volume will be placed in the literary context of the time in which it was created through fragments taken from novels, poems or the correspondence of artists. Eric Le Sage will work on this series together with François Salque with whom he shares a great musical affinity. Sound engineer Jean-Marc Laisné (who recorded the integral works of Schumann) will record the pieces in the auditorium of Grenoble, a hall famous for its acoustics. Through the combination of their talents, these men will breathe new life into these well known pieces.
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Eric Le Sage – Fauré: Nocturnes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:07 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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With their poetry, their passonate and intimate lyricism, their refined style that gradually reveals hidden depths, the thirteen Nocturnes of Gabriel Fauré are the most significant group of works in his oeuvre for solo piano.
Composed over a period of forty-six years (between 1875 and 1821), they bear witness to the composer’s remarkable stylistic evolution. From a form of expression rooted in romanticism, to an aesthetic fully aligned with 20th-century modernity, Fauré can be said to have shaped his musical personality like a sculptor. His Nocturnes are not all of equal importance, but as a whole their diversity and development offer a perfect panorama of his art.
Éric Le Sage, one of the French piano school’s main representatives, whose many recordings for Alpha include the complete chamber music of Fauré, here interprets the repertoire closest to his heart.
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Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser, Eric Le Sage – Vienne 1900 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:55:02 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese composers of the early twentieth century. The most famous and innovative of these are represented: Schoenberg with his Kammersymphonie no.1, Mahler with two lieder transcribed for flute and piano, Zemlinsky’s Clarinet Trio and several pieces by Berg. A programme that encapsulates both the exhaustion of a bygone Romantic age and the avant-garde promises of a modern world still to be built.
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Eric Le Sage – Jardins suspendus (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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Eminent representative of the French piano school, the pianist Eric Le Sage offers a new album in the form of a poetic walk in the secret gardens of 22 French composers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Between the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties, around two world wars that had to be healed, in the vertigo of all the rebirths and that of progress on the march, music also needed calm, humanity and natural intimacy. While twenty-two French composers cultivate their secret soul, in a few piano miniatures, electricity, the gramophone, the little queen, the Parisian metro … are already inviting themselves into people’s daily lives.
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