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Quatuor Ébène, Michel Portal – Eternal Stories (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:49 minutes | 791 MB | Genre: Classical, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics
The New York Times has described the French ensemble as “a string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band” and its recordings of Haydn, Bartók, Brahms and Schubert have been praised all over the world. Portal and the Ébène first played together in Paris in 2013, where Piazzolla’s compositions were also on the programme, prompting Le Monde to speak of “a significant lesson, a superb encounter, a real conversation.”
Eternal Stories might just turn out to be one of the best albums that Portal has ever recorded. He could well have been thinking of his beloved Charlie Parker, who in 1949 realised his dream of making a recording with a string section. Eternal Stories is not some kind of attempt at a remake, but comprises completely new pieces and two new arrangements of classic Portal numbers, a late work by Piazzolla and astonishing contributions from members of Quatuor Ébène itself.
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Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto – Berg ∙ Brahms ∙ Poulenc ∙ Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:51 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
This album takes us on a journey through several different eras of Romanticism, from its origins to its twilight, from Schumann to Poulenc by way of Brahms and Berg. It is also the story of a long friendship and artistic collaboration . . . A declared enemy of anything that smacks of routine, the clarinettist Michel Portal looks after his unpredictability the way an astronaut looks after his oxygen supply. His almost organic curiosity, his need for exchange, reacts here to an exciting encounter with the pianist Michel Dalberto. The clarinet sonatas by Brahms and Poulenc, Schumann’s Phantasiestücke and Berg’s Four Pieces are all seen in a new perspective at La Dolce Volta. Every Michel Portal recording is a passport to wisdom, a term that for him goes hand in hand with speed, joy and exultation. Eternal youth!
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Michel Portal – Our Meanings and Our Feelings (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:07 minutes | 874 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone (France)
Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be “one of the architects of modern European jazz”.
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