Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer, Stéphanie-Marie Degand – Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Op. 68, Violin Concerto, Op. 77 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:21 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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Der junge, hochbegabte Johannes Brahms veröffentlichte sein Opus 1, eine Klaviersonate, mit 20 Jahren. Im sinfonischen Bereich war er jedoch ein Spätentwickler, weil er sich immer im Schatten des großen Vorbilds Beethoven wähnte.
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Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer – Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:00:52 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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The conductor Jérémie Rhorer is today regarded as one of the finest interpreters of the music of Mozart in general and his operas in particular. After conducting Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2015, he performed it again at a memorable concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in September of that year with his orchestra, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie. It is this exceptional event, captured in a live recording conveying all the dramatic intensity of the opera, that we present today. ‘In Die Entfuhrung, Mozart presents a completely unprecedented vision of the singspiel, with highly developed ensembles and musical continuity at a time when contemporary spectators were expect-ing the standard alternation between spoken and sung sections’, says Jérémie Rhorer in the interview that accompanies the discs. That musical dramaturgy lies at the centre of this interpretation, which is served by an outstandingly homogeneous cast. This recording launches a series of recordings of concerts at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and a collaboration between Alpha Classics and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, who will continue to place their excellence at the service of the great masterpieces of Mozart – and of other composers: watch this space!
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Jean-Sébastien Bou, Jérémie Rhorer, Julien Behr, Julie Boulianne, Anna Grevelius, Steven Humes, Myrtò Papatanasiu, Marc Scoffoni, Robert Gleadow, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie – Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:55:43 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Classical
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Here is the third and last instalment in the ‘Live at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées’ series of Mozart operas conducted by Jérémie Rhorer. After Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and La clemenza di Tito comes Don Giovanni, recorded in 2016. On the occasion of the performances (directed by Stéphane Braunschweig) during which Radio France recorded the present discs, Le Figaro wrote: ‘Jérémie Rhorer expertly conducted his orchestra “Le Cercle de l’Harmonie”. On the stage, Jean-Sébastien Bou sang and acted the title role impeccably. He was seconded by his valet Leporello, superbly played by the Canadian Robert Gleadow. A thrilling production both musically and intellectually.’ The cast is completed by the ardent Myrtò Papatanasiu in the role of Donna Anna, the lovely voice of Julie Boulianne as Donna Elvira and the elegant timbre of Julien Behr as Don Ottavio, not forgetting the magnificent Commendatore of Steven Humes and the lively Zerlina and Masetto of Anna Grevelius and Marc Scoffoni.
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Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie – Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 (Live Recording at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:13:36 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Alpha extend their series of recordings of the Mozart operas conducted by Jérémie Rhorer. After Die Entführung aus dem Serail, which received excellent international reviews (including FFFF in Télérama), here now is La clemenza di Tito. Gilles Macassar wrote in Télérama late in 2014 of ‘divinatory conducting, a cast close to the ideal . . . The last opera Mozart composed, long undervalued, closes the chapter of the Baroque and looks into the future, blazing a new trail that looks forward to the nineteenth century.’ That outstanding interpretation is now available in this two-CD set, featuring a high-powered cast – Kurt Streit (Tito), Karina Gauvin (Vitellia), Julie Fuchs (Servilia), Julie Boulianne (Annio), Robert Gleadow (Publio) and, in the role of Sextus, a singer who enjoyed triumphal acclaim from the audience at each performance: Kate Lindsey. The American mezzo-soprano has now joined Alpha, and her first album, devoted to Kurt Weill (see Alpha 272), will be released in May 2017.
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