Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin – Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & La Follia (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:46 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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More than 300 years after Antonio Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons , the most famous work in the history of music is still as lively and invigorating as ever. Now Le Concert de la Loge has recorded this Baroque treasure with its founder and director, the violinist Julien Chauvin, as soloist. For the occasion, the Château de Versailles has loaned him an exceptional instrument: a Neapolitan violin by Nicola Gagliano, adorned with fleur-de-lys and inlaid decorations. This instrument, which was played by Yehudi Menuhin in the 1970s, comes from the ‘collection de Madame Adélaïde’, named after one of Louis XV’s daughters. It has not left the Château for almost a century and is in a perfect state of preservation. The main work is complemented by Vivaldi’s no less celebrated ‘La Follia’ and an aria that is now famous in its own right, ‘Sovvente il sole’ from Andromeda liberata , the score of which was discovered in Venice in 2002. It is performed here by the countertenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian.
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Philippe Jaroussky, Julien Chauvin & Le Concert de la Loge – Forgotten Arias (2023)
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Philippe Jaroussky dedicates his album to the librettist Pietro Metastasio: the famous countertenor with a passion for musical rediscoveries gathers on “Forgotten Arias” works of today almost forgotten opera compositions of the High Baroque. All arias were recorded for this album for the recorded for the first time ever. What the works also have in common is that their texts come from probably the most sought-after librettist of the 18th century: Pietro Metastasio.
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Olivier Baumont, Julien Chauvin – À Madame: Divertissement pour Adelaïde (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:21 minutes | 960 MB | Genre: Classical
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At the court of Versailles, the daughters of Louis XV (referred to as ‘Mesdames’), and in particular Adélaïde, devoted themselves to a regular practice of music and, apparently, demonstrated talent. Numerous composers (Simon, Rameau, Balbastre, Cardonne, Guignon) played for them, worked with them, and dedicated several works to them. ‘À Madame’, Divertissement pour Adélaïde, is an anthology, subjectively put together, of compositions that resounded in their drawing room.
All the works on this programme are world premieres. These lovely, rare nuggets are mixed with a few unusual sonorities of marvellous carillons of the Marc-Antoine Le Nepveu clock (currently in the Cabinet de la Méridienne, located at the heart of the palace, on the first floor).
The recording, made in the Grand Cabinet de Madame Victoire at Versailles and featuring two precious historical instruments from the palace’s collections, faithfully reproduces the forgotten beauties of the Age of Enlightenment. An original invitation to travel back in time, as testimony to a musical afternoon at Versailles in the company of Mesdames.
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Sophie Karthäuser, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin – Haydn: L’Impatiente (2019)
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The Haydn series continues with the Paris Symphony No. 87. Julien Chauvin and his orchestra keep shaking us up with historical instruments listening to Haydn’s works and several other forgotten scores from the same period. All of them were commissioned for the Concert de la Loge Olympique – ancestor and model for Julien Chauvin and his musicians – and all of them sank into oblivion during the 19th century, except for Haydn’s symphonies. The record offers an opportunity to experience some rare works of Grétry, Lemoyne and Ragué, and to revive the success that they once knew.
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Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin & Justin Taylor – Haydn : Symphony No. 83 “La Poule”, Piano Concerto No.17 (2017)
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Thanks to Julien Chauvin and his ensemble La Loge, the programs of the Concert Spirituel’s evenings in the late 18th century Paris come back to life. The so called Haydn’s “symphonies parisiennes” are the core of their musical project which also features contemporary composers, some of them are still unknown.
After “La Reine”, Julien Chauvin and his musicians release “La Poule”, which mischievous doted notes are famous, and Marie-Alexandre Guénin’s Third Symphony. In addition to being a member of the Concert Spirituel’s orchestra as a violinist, Guénin was a teacher and a composer. This score, typical of the Sturm und Drang dramatic gestures, has nothing to envy to the works of his more prominent peers.
The disc ends with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, K 453 performed by the young and talented Justin Taylor on the fortepiano. His technique allows his sensibility and intelligence to blossom freely so that the soloist can offer a pure moment of delicacy.
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Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin – Haydn: Stabat Mater, Symphonies Parisiennes Nos. 84 & 86 (2021)
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Le Concert de la Loge and Julien Chauvin continue the Haydn adventure with the “Paris” Symphonies No. 84 and No. 86. The conductor and his period instruments orchestra complete the programme with the beautiful Stabat Mater, one of Haydn’s most performed ones during his lifetime. Composed in 1767 during the “Sturm and Drang” period, the Stabat Mater’s strikingly sober and plain expression (« Fac me vere tecum flere ») doesn’t exclude some outstanding passages, as in the « Sancta Mater, istud agas ».
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Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin – Reicha: Grande symphonie de salon – Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20 (2019)
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Reicha and Beethoven were both composers and were both born in the year 1770. They met in Bonn and even played together for several years in Bonn’s orchestra pit. The Concert de la Loge takes the opportunity of their 250th birthday to pay them a tribute, with this recording that brings together Beethoven’s Septet op.20 (for an atypical string quartet with violin, viola, cello and double bass, plus clarinet, horn and bassoon) and Reicha’s Grande Symphonie de Salon no.1 (for string quintet, oboe, clarinet, cor and bassoon). These hybrid works are situated at crossroads between chamber music and symphony and reflect the taste of experimentation of their composers.
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Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin – Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3, Symphony ‘Jupiter’, Le nozze di Figaro Overture (2021)
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Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge join Alpha and launch a new cycle devoted to Mozart. This project is a natural continuation of Julien Chauvin’s work of rediscovery focusing on the interpretation of the music of Haydn and his contemporaries in Paris in the late eighteenth century. The first recording assembles the majestic and grandiose Symphony no.41 in C major, known as the Jupiter, the Violin Concerto no.3 in G major and the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro. Julien Chauvin is, of course, the soloist in the violin concerto and, with his Concert de la Loge (which is no longer ‘Olympique’, since the French National Olympic Sports Committee forced the ensemble to amputate its name in 2016, despite the fact that it dates from…1782), they embark on a Mozartian marathon that promises to be electrifying!
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Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin – Haydn : Symphony No. 82 “L’Ours” (2018)
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The too well-known Concert de la Loge, the period-instruments orchestra led by the violinist Julien Chauvin, comes back with the third episode of Haydn’s journey in Paris. His complete Parisian Symphonies recording continues this fall with the number 82 nicknamed “The Bear”. It is coupled with the Symphonie concertante for bassoon, horn, flute and oboe of one of his contemporaries, François Devienne. This colorful third volume draws a witty and virtuoso panorama of French 18th century music.
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Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge – VIVALDI Concerti per violino VIII “Il teatro” (2020)
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This is the first time a French violinist has joined the line of prestigious solo virtuosi recording for the Vivaldi Edition. Violinist Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge – founded in 2015, and modelled on one of the most celebrated orchestras of the late 18th century – here reveal all the discreet charms of an inventive concertante style rich in detail, featuring Vivaldi’s favoured instrument. This particular set of concerti highlight the consistently close links between Vivaldi’s instrumental and operatic works.
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Jodie Devos, Adèle Charvet, Julien Chauvin – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:20 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
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Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century – Rousseau called its first movement “the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer”. There were many arrangements of the work, by Bach or Hiller among others. It was performed more than eighty times at the Concert Spirituel in Paris between 1753 and 1790, in multiple versions, probably also with the participation of a choir.
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Le Concert de la Loge, Chœur de Chambre de Namur & Julien Chauvin – Mozart: Requiem – Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon (2023)
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Le Requiem de Mozart n’est présenté à Paris qu’en 1804, dans une version légèrement différente de celle composée par Mozart. La presse se fait l’écho d’un triomphe. 1804 est aussi l’année du sacre de Napoléon : de ses conquêtes méditerranéennes, Bonaparte avait rapporté un goût prononcé pour la musique italienne. Il confie ainsi au Napolitain Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) la direction de sa chapelle musicale et lui commande la musique de son couronnement, une Messe solennelle en si bémol majeur . Le Palazzetto Bru Zane a créé l’édition moderne de l’œuvre qui est enregistrée ici. Outre la fastueuse 1804, l’autre année qui relie Napoléon à Mozart, c’est 1841, lorsque son Requiem retentit à nouveau aux Invalides alors que le corps de Napoléon y fait son entrée…Sandrine Piau, Chantal Santon, Eléonore Pancrazi, Mathias Vidal et Thomas Dolié sont les solistes de ce programme dirigé par Julien Chauvin, à la tête de son Concert de la Loge et du Chœur de Chambre de Namur.
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Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge – Vivaldi: Concerti per violino X ‘Intorno a Pisendel’ (2022)
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This tenth volume of violin concertos marks the return of Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge to the Vivaldi Edition, with works linked to Pisendel, a major musical figure in the court of Dresden in the 18th century. Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge released a hugely successful volume of Vivaldi concertos with a theatrical theme in 2020.
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Andreas Staier, Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 40 & Don Giovanni Overture (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:57 minutes | 1016 MB | Genre: Classical
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Julien Chauvin meets up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Andreas Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, ‘one of the most heart-rending slow movements ever written by Mozart… Performers often tend to take it too slowly, certainly thinking that this will accentuate the tragic side, but Julien Chauvin and I spontaneously agreed on a slightly faster tempo, which respects the basic pulse of this movement in siciliana rhythm. When you start with the right tempo, it’s amazing how the whole discourse comes together perfectly, in a very logical and simple manner’, says Staier, who plays a magnificent instrument by Christoph Kern after a 1790 fortepiano by Anton Walter, the great maker of Mozart’s time. Also on the programme is the Symphony no.40, in which, says Julien Chauvin, ‘Mozart explores types of writing that he pushes to their most extreme limits. This is the case in the finale, where we find a succession of dissonant disjunct intervals at the opening of the development which, on closer inspection, present us with the full chromatic scale (except for G natural, the symphony’s tonic). And so the twelve-note series was born!’
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Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin – Rivales (2022)
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Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens have a longstanding rapport and dreamed of making a recording together. Here they pay tribute to two singers who, like them, were born within a year of each other, Mme Dugazon (1755-1821) and Mme Saint-Huberty (1756-1812): both enjoyed triumphant careers in Paris, inspiring numerous librettists and composers. Gluck even nicknamed Saint-Huberty “Madame-la-Ressource”, while “a Dugazon” became a generic name for the roles of naïve girls in love, and later of comical mothers.
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