Pascal Valois

Pascal Valois – Vienna 1840: Romantic Viennese Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 491 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Groupe Analekta, Inc

The second half of the 19th century was an erawhen musicians valued the evocation of the fantastic and the expression of passion above all else. They did not hesitate to manipulate and reshape musical frameworks through a wide variety of expressive techniques such as rubato (modifying rhythms and varying pulsation), portamento (expressively sliding between notes), arpeggiation, adding appoggiaturas and trills, and improvising musical transitions. For the recording of Vienna 1840, Pascal Valois set out to rediscover these manners of expression as they existed in the Germanic Romantic period. For this same reason, he used a replica of an 1830 Viennese guitar by luthier Johann Georg Stauffer (1778–1853).
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Pascal Valois – Paris 1790: The Music of Monsieur Vidal (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:15 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Productions Analekta Inc.

Pascal Valois se consacre à faire revivre la frénésie et l’émerveillement que suscitait la guitare à l’époque romantique. Avec des instruments d’époque, il exécute les pièces du répertoire du XIXe siècle en ayant recours à diverses ornementations et pratiques stylistiques de l’époque, et en faisant appel à l’improvisation, tel qu’il était alors d’usage.

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Pascal Valois – Vienna 1840: Romantic Viennese Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 491 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Groupe Analekta, Inc

The second half of the 19th century was an erawhen musicians valued the evocation of the fantastic and the expression of passion above all else. They did not hesitate to manipulate and reshape musical frameworks through a wide variety of expressive techniques such as rubato (modifying rhythms and varying pulsation), portamento (expressively sliding between notes), arpeggiation, adding appoggiaturas and trills, and improvising musical transitions. For the recording of Vienna 1840, Pascal Valois set out to rediscover these manners of expression as they existed in the Germanic Romantic period. For this same reason, he used a replica of an 1830 Viennese guitar by luthier Johann Georg Stauffer (1778–1853).
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