Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé, Ilya Gringolts, Florent Jodelet – Michael Jarrell: Orchestral Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:01 minutes | 885 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to ‘examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth’ – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. His works are often interrelated, not only by a certain sensitivity or a distinctive tone, but also by the recurrence of particular features that he reworks in different contexts. The present disc combines three orchestral works composed over a period of almost a quarter of a century. In Paysages avec figures absentes, played here by solo violinist Ilya Gringolts, the composer wished to find a new approach to writing for violin within an ensemble. Premièred a few months before this recording by the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, the Sechs Augeblicke for orchestra suggest a concentration or implosion of sound matter within musical fragments, as a sort of reference to Schubert. Finally, the guiding idea of Un long fracas somptueux de rapide céleste with solo percussionist Florent Jodelet is a short, powerful ‘initial explosion’ that recurs, like a punctuation mark, throughout the piece, more or less regularly, in different forms.
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Carolyn Sampson, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Pascal Rophé – Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:43 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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That Ba”il`ero, a shepherd’s song from the highlands of Auvergne sung in the Occitan dialect of the area, should become a favourite with singers ranging from Victoria de los Angeles to Sarah Brightman by way of Ren’ee Fleming and Karita Mattila, is all because of Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret. As a budding composer in Paris in the 1900s, Canteloube was unable to interest himself in the various musical cliques and currents. Instead he looked for inspiration in Auvergne in central France where he was born, starting to collect the songs of the farmers and shepherds that lived in the mountainous region. But he did so as a composer rather than a musicologist, and between 1923 and 1954 he published a total of thirty Chants d’Auvergne, arranged, harmonized and sumptuously orchestrated.
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Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Pascal Rophé, Marc Coppey – Mantovani – Symphonie No. 1, Abstract (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:44 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Classical
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Symphonie n°1, L’Idée Fixe, pour orchestre, Abstract pour orchestre avec violoncelle principal. L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo sous la direction du chef français Pascal Rophé livre deux œuvres nouvelles de Bruno Mantovani. Dans ses créations orchestrales (plus d’une vingtaine de partitions), le compositeur français avait déjà exploré de nombreuses possibilités expressives avant d’aborder le genre de la symphonie. Avec sa Symphonie n° 1, l’idée fixe (2015) – une référence à l’ « idée fixe » de la Symphonie fantastique de Berlioz – il questionne un procédé d’écriture ancestral (celui du retour d’une mélodie) pour en révéler toute sa modernité. Dans Abstract (2017), il renoue avec l’écriture soliste qui lui est chère, en confrontant le violoncelle (Marc Coppey) à l’ensemble de l’orchestre. Cette partition conçue pour le ballet chorégraphié par Jean-Christophe Maillot en avril 2018, pose avec élégance la possibilité d’une rencontre tangible entre la danse, les solistes instrumentistes et l’orchestre. Subsiste de cette dramaturgie, une musique jaillissante, sans cesse renouvelée et variée : « Bien qu’invisible et insaisissable, écrit le compositeur, ma musique est toujours liée à une perception du monde qui génère des émotions et donc du mouvement »
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David Lively, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Pascal Rophé – Blank: Reflecting Black (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:37 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Classical
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Here, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Pascal Rophé, with whom the æon label has collaborated since 2003, give us a very fine William Blank monograph, the fruit of the orchestra’s sustained work with this essential representative of Swiss creation, alongside his elder Heinz Holliger and his contemporary Michael Jarrell. Born in 1957 in Montreux, William Blank, composer and conductor, is performed the world over. With him, there are no (or few) evanescent layers, aleatoric or improvised passages. Rather, there is a sort of pointillism with a human face, a maniacal love of small detail behind which emotion is flushed out by harsh, searing intensity or dense outpourings. The works on this programme are representative of the recent evolution in his work, especially the piano concerto, Reflecting Black, written in homage to the painter Pierre Soulages and magnificently served in this recording by pianist David Lively.
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Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé – Pascal Dusapin: À Quia, Aufgang & Wenn du dem Wind… (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:58 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Pascal Dusapin has composed a number of works for the stage, one of the more recent being the opera Penthesilea, after the play by Heinrich von Kleist. From the opera he has also fashioned Wenn Du dem Wind…, the concert suite which opens this disc. Although beginning and ending with a single line from a solo harp, throughout its course takes the listener through the extremes of love, war and the demands of inflexible laws.
Dusapin’s catalogue of works also includes several concertos, including Aufgang and À quia for violin and piano respectively.
Soloists on this recording are Natascha Petrinsky, who sang the role of Penthesilea at the première production of the opera, and Carolin Widmann and Nicolas Hodges, both highly respected interpreters in the field of contemporary music. They are supported by l’Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, a team well acquainted with the composer and his music: Dusapin and Rophé have collaborated since the early 1990s and during 2014–16 he was the orchestra’s composer-in-residence.
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Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & Pascal Rophé – Dukas: Polyeucte Overture & L’apprenti sorcier – Roussel: Le festin de l’araignée (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:46 minutes | 965 MB | Genre: Classical
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Under its music director Pascal Rophé, l’Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (ONPL) here performs two great orchestral spectaculars of French music – scintillating and imaginative scores composed only 15 years apart. A perennial favorite, Paul Dukas’ symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1897) became a ‘hit’ with the general public after being included in the soundtrack of the Disney animation film Fantasia in 1940. In the work, based on a ballad by Goethe, Dukas displayed an extraordinary command of the large late-Romantic orchestra as he depicted the disastrous consequences when a young apprentice tries to work the magic charms of his master. In 1912, when Albert Roussel composed his ballet score The Spider’s Feast, he was rather influenced by Impressionism, but his use of the orchestra was no less inventive than Dukas. The plot of the ballet is played out in a garden where a spider is trapping various insects in its net looking forward to having a sumptuous meal. Roussel’s sophisticated use of timbres and his characteristic rhythmic pointillism conjures a micro-drama which also features a mayfly, a team of ants and a rather terrifying pair of praying mantises. The album opens with another piece by Dukas: Polyeucte, a concert overture inspired by a 17th century play and a work of a surprising expressive power.
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Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé – Debussy Orchestrated (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:46 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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With the present recording, Pascal Rophé and his Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire pay tribute to their great countryman, Claude Debussy – but not with the standard orchestral fare. “Debussy Orchestrated” paints a portrait of a light-hearted composer, seen through the eyes of two of his collaborators, Henri Büsser and André Caplet, who transferred the works recorded here from the keyboard to the orchestra.
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