Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Orchestre Pasdeloup & Wolfgang Doerner – La nuit étoilée (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Orchestre Pasdeloup & Wolfgang Doerner – La nuit étoilée (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:54 minutes | 963 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gramola Records

Celebrating the 160th anniversary of its founding, the Parisian Orchestre Pasdeloup dedicates its new album to two composers who were greatly appreciated by the orchestra’s founder Jules Pasdeloup: Hector Berlioz with his orchestral song cycle Les Nuits d’été and the cantata Cléopâtre, and Augusta Holmès (1847-1903), one of only a few female composers who were regularly performed during their lifetime, with her symphonic interlude La Nuit et l’amour.

The popular French mezzo soprano Stephanie d’Oustrac is collaborating with conductor Wolfgang Doerner, who has been a partner of Orchestre Pasdeloup for more than 30 years.

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Orchestre Pasdeloup – Atlantic Crossings (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Orchestre Pasdeloup – Atlantic Crossings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:37 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Gramola Records

The album Atlantic Crossings by the Parisian Orchestre Pasdeloup, directed by Wolfgang Doerner, is dedicated to music written by European composers who came across the Atlantic to New York or later had to flee there from the Nazis. Gustav Mahler, who since 1907 has been travelling annually to New York over the winter to perform there, is introduced with the ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen’ with the Austrian baritone Daniel Schmutzhard, ‘Das himmlische Leben’ with the French soprano Amel Brahim-Djelloul, as well as the orchestral pieces ‘Blumine’ and ‘Entracte’ (from ‘The Three Pintos’). Extended by the jazz orchestra of percussionist Franck Tortiller, Orchestre Pasdeloup presents Sigmund Romberg’s ‘Lover Come Back to Me’, again featuring Amel Brahim-Djelloul; Romberg had been living in New York since 1909 and had established himself on Broadway. In the same line-up, Kurt Weill, who had to leave Europe for good in 1935, can be heard with Berlin im Licht, the chanson ‘Je ne t’aime pas’ written in France in the early thirties and the Broadway song ‘That’s Him’ from 1943.
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Orchestre Pasdeloup, Marzena Diakun – Polish Heroines of Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Orchestre Pasdeloup, Marzena Diakun – Polish Heroines of Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:43 minutes | 648 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Polska Sp. z o.o.

Does music need parity? Probably not, it defends itself. But it is worth noting and emphasising the artistic advantages of outstanding contemporary composers and their unforgettable predecessors – women in Polish music are a voice as separate as it is expressive. The album is the result of cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and more specifically the Polskie Heroiny Dźwięku (Polish Heroines of Sound) program conducted by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the wider Polska Music campaign. It aims to create and popularise a new canon of works by Polish composers. In this case, they are “Sonosphère V. Wanda Landowska” by Elżbieta Sikora, “Aisthetikos” by Hanna Kulenty, “In the Shade of an Unshed Tear” by Agata Zubel and “Contradizione”, a classic by Grażyna Bacewicz.

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