Félicien Brut, Quatuor Hermès and édouard Macarez – Le pari des bretelles (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Félicien Brut, Quatuor Hermès and édouard Macarez – Le pari des bretelles (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:19 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

I have the immense pleasure to present you today this “pari”, the bet of mixing the breath of my accordion with the bows of five fabulous musicians to make discover or rediscover the history of this instrument which, I hope , will surprise you and seduce you. you, revealing to you once again where no one is waiting for him … Felicien Brut

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Quatuor Hermès – Charlotte Sohy: Chamber Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Hermès - Charlotte Sohy: Chamber Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Quatuor Hermès – Charlotte Sohy: Chamber Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:31 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © La Boîte à Pépites

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Quatuor Hermes, Felicien Brut & Edouard Macarez – Neuf (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Hermes, Felicien Brut & Edouard Macarez – Neuf (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:12 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

<< Neuf >>, like the nine symphonies, nine masterpieces, and so many more… How, in 2020, can an accordionist pay tribute to the considerable legacy left behind by Beethoven? This is the first question that came to my mind when Ren’e Martin, director of the Folle Journ’ee classical music festival in Nantes, asked me to come up with a programme to mark the legendary composer’s 250 th birthday.

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Quatuor Hermès – Schumann: The 3 String Quartets Op. 41 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Quatuor Hermès – Schumann: The 3 String Quartets Op. 41 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:44 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta

This album of Robert Schumann’s three string quartets by France’s young Quatuor Hermès comes with Japanese translations of the booklet and track list. This raises an interesting question: as the market for music of the Western classical tradition grows in Asian countries, might unusual performances of repertory works influence the nature of the repertory going forward in countries where it is new? Certainly one could imagine a situation in which this recording caused the Schumann string quartets to be accorded a status higher than the middle-level position they enjoy in the West. The Quatuor Hermès offers readings that are both iconoclastic and executed at a very high level. In a word, they’re electrifying. They seem to have tapped into the influence of Beethoven’s revolutionary late quartets on Schumann and linked it to the spirit of fantasy and, to use the group’s own word, madness that runs through all his music. This is Schumann of an ecstatic, arch-Romantic sort, with sharp tempo contrasts — listen to the finale of the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41/1, which almost, but not quite, goes over the edge — and a passionate attitude toward the chains of melody that seem, once one has been conditioned to listen to the works this way, to have grown straight out of the likes of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. Revelatory and committed, this is a Schumann recording that will be remembered and treasured.

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Quatuor Hermès – Schubert: Rosamunde & Der Tod und das Mädchen (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Hermès – Schubert: Rosamunde & Der Tod und das Mädchen (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:30 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta

At the end of 1822, Schubert learnt that he had contracted a venereal disease. His hopes were “dashed”, friendship and love became “torture”. He threw all his energy into his work and embarked on the most profound portion of his oeuvre. This was the period of the song cycle Die schone Mullerin, followed in 1824 by the “Rosamunde” Quartet, the Arpeggione Sonata and “The Death and the Maiden” Quartet. He left more and more works unfinished, but everything he did complete now took on a new dimension. His quartets are no longer for “accompanied first violin”: they gain in expressiveness, power and symphonic richness.

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Quatuor Hermès – Quatuor Hermès: Ravel, Dutilleux & Debussy (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Hermès – Quatuor Hermès: Ravel, Dutilleux & Debussy (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:33 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta

Two years after its very well received recording of three Schumann quartets, Quatuor Hermès – created about ten years ago – is turning its attention to three staple French masterpieces: Ravel and Debussy’s quartets (two iconic figures of their− relatively young − generation who have been coupled on disc again and again, but who would complain?) surrounding Dutilleux’s quartet Ainsi la nuit (Thus the Night). Three very unique quartets, as each of their composers only wrote a single one. For the record, Debussy’s quartet still belongs to the 19th century as it was composed in 1893 in a language formally borrowing from Franck (even if the chord progressions already feel like classic Debussy), while Ravel’s inaugurates the 20th century in 1903 with Faurean notes in abundance… On the other hand, Dutilleux waited to achieve maturity (1976) to write his. An inescapable monument of 20th French chamber repertoire, played with finesse and transparency by Quatuor Hermès, cementing their place among the elite quartets of our time.

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