Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen, Maitrise De Radio France – J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen, Maitrise De Radio France - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen, Maitrise De Radio France – J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:41:27 minutes | 3,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Dès le chœur d’entrée, Raphaël Pichon et son ensemble Pygmalion seront sensibles à la nuance, emplissant leur geste de couleurs et d’attentions finalement peu courantes dans ce moment le plus souvent marqué par l’ampleur et la densité du son. Les inflexions pianissimos, le soudain allégement des textures, le ton général chambriste placent cette Passion, devenue a posteriori le temple et sommet de l’expression dramatique religieuse du XVIIIe siècle, ailleurs. Bach y est ici le cousin direct d’un Georg Philipp Telemann dont les propres Passions présentent des effectifs plus restreints et parfois plus variés en terme d’instrumentarium. Elle s’inscrit aussi dans les perspectives doloristes des Membra Jesu nostri de Dietrich Buxtehude.
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Lucile Richardot, Yves Saelens, Het Collectief and Reinbert de Leeuw – Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Lucile Richardot, Yves Saelens, Het Collectief and Reinbert de Leeuw – Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:19 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
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This recording was made under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw in December 2019, two months before his death. A few weeks before that, he had called Thomas Dieltjens, artistic director of Het Collectief, to tell him: Since our concert in mid-July 2019, Das Lied von der Erde has constantly been on my mind. I am totally fascinated by it and discover new things in it every day. It would be a dream if we could record this music with the exceptional cast of musicians and soloist singers of the Saintes festival, and preferably the sooner the better. Words failed, as can be gathered from the many concert reviews they received. Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde is already so much more than just music, it encompasses life as a whole, from early birth till death. Reinbert de Leeuw made of this masterpiece an exceptionally refined arrangement for 15 instrumentalists and 2 soloists. How Reinbert manages to render the full force of Mahlers original score in his arrangement is unparalleled. There is the addition of the harp, some percussion, a contrabassoon and a bass clarinet. With the harmonium as an essential link between cords, winds, percussion and piano. One lacks ears to feel the richness of Reinberts arrangement. This is pure musical delight.

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Lucile Richardot, Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain – Berio To Sing (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lucile Richardot, Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain – Berio To Sing (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:03 minutes | 1001 MB | Genre: Classical
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Few twentieth-century creators have been as inventive as Berio in their relationship with the history of music, with popular and ancestral traditions, drawing material, as he did, from both Beatles hits and the soundscapes of street and market. Here Geoffroy Jourdain paints the portrait of an explorer with a passion for the human voice. Truculent and volcanic in Sequenza III (performed with panache by Lucile Richardot), lyrical and caressing in E si fussi pisci, solemn and spellbinding in Cries of London. “Berio To Sing” throws open the doors to a colourful universe, extravagantly playful and, in a word, exhilarating!

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Lucile Richardot – Nadia & Lili Boulanger: Les Heures claires (The complete Songs) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lucile Richardot – Nadia & Lili Boulanger: Les Heures claires (The complete Songs) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:10:02 minutes | 3,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Nadia and Lili Boulanger, each in their own way, made a lasting impact on the musical world of the Twentieth Century.

Sometimes luminous and full of hope, sometimes more sombre, all their works testify to a poignant humanity.

Going beyond the mélodies, Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel and the other artists assembled for this edition offer a multi-faceted portrait of the two composers, a form of musical narrative containing pieces that have never been published or recorded before.

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Giulia Semenzato, Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Resonanz & Riccardo Minasi – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater – Rossell: Salve Regina (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Giulia Semenzato, Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Resonanz & Riccardo Minasi – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater – Rossell: Salve Regina (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:22 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Here is the work of a genius who died at the age of twenty-six: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is one of the miracles of eighteenth-century sacred music. Nourished by their experience of ‘setting in resonance’ early and contemporary repertories, Riccardo Minasi and the Hamburg musicians shed an astonishingly modern light on these moving pieces, in which the voices of Giulia Semenzato and Lucile Richardot intertwine in the most sublime of communions. The Stabat is echoed by Joan Rossell’s poignant Salve Regina, long attributed to Pergolesi himself.

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Lucile Richardot & Philippe Grisvard – Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantate da camera (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lucile Richardot & Philippe Grisvard – Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantate da camera (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:58 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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Nach langer Forschungsarbeit begibt sich Philippe Grisvard zusammen mit Lucile Richardot in die Welt der Kantaten von Alessandro Scarlatti. Dieses Genre war für den aus Sizilien stammenden neapolitanischen Komponisten ein kreatives und experimentelles Betätigungsfeld, das es ihm auf ideale Weise ermöglichte, seine höchst ausgefeilte und ungestüme Kunst nach Herzenslust zu entfalten. Die bis heute kaum bekannten Werke präsentieren die beiden Künstler in diesem virtuosen Programm in der aparten Besetzung für Mezzosopran und Cembalo hier zum ersten Mal.

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Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Perpetual Night: 17th Century Airs and Songs (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Perpetual Night: 17th Century Airs and Songs (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:12 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Classical
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The circulation of artists and sovereigns between France and England in the seventeenth century resulted in the establishment of highly original genres in the latter country: the first recitatives, large-scale airs from masques and dramatic ‘scenes’ provided fertile ground for experimentation and prepared the way for the birth of semi-opera. Sébastien Daucé explores this English vocal art in a programme tailor-made for one of today’s most fascinating voices: Lucile Richardot, in the exquisite setting provided by Correspondances, subtly blends music, love, night and melancholy.”

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Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot, Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew – Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot, Les Arts Florissants & Paul Agnew – Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:07 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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A puzzling paradox: although Vivaldi devoted over 30 years to composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, no complete musical setting of any liturgy by him has come down to us. By intercalating existing examples of his sacred music (such as the famous Gloria) and other works given a different text to suit their new liturgical function (Sanctus and Agnus Dei), the ensemble Les Arts Florissants now offers us a compelling reconstruction of a solemn Mass which the “Red-Haired Priest” might have written… for just such an assembly of exceptional soloists!

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