Philippe Jaroussky, Jérôme Ducros, Quatuor Ebène – Green: Mélodies françaises sur des poèmes de Verlaine (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:51:51 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics
In his second album of French song from the 19th and 20th centuries – following the ground-breaking Opium, released in 2009 – countertenor Philippe Jaroussky explores settings of poems by Paul Verlaine (1844-96). One of France’s most revered fin-de-siècle poets and a pioneer of the decadent and symbolist movements, Verlaine famously declared his philosophy in the first line of Art poétique in 1874: ‘De la musique avant toute chose’ – ‘music before all else.’ In his poetry, the sound and the shape of each line carries meaning and expression, adding resonance to the words, which often evoke a twilit world of ambiguous emotions.
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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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