Stéphanie D’Oustrac, Pascal Jourdan – Sirènes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:55 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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On their first recital for harmonia mundi, soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac and pianist Pascal Jourdan perform music by three titans of the Romantic period. Liszt, Berlioz and Wagner each made decisive contributions to the evolution of the lied. Although not known as a song composer, Berlioz wrote more than fifty songs – many of them supreme examples of his unsurpassed gift for melody. His cycle Les Nuits d’été take on a completely different dimension when heard in their original setting for voice and piano. Wagner’s five Wesendonck-Lieder are among the the most famous cycles in the history of the lied, and the Liszt selections heard here exemplify his supreme mastery of the genre.
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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
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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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Stéphanie d’Oustrac – Une soirée chez Berlioz (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:32 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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Another facet of Berlioz! We may find it hard to imagine that the composer of such epics as Les Troyens started out as a guitarist… and that his first compositional experience was to transcribe songs, inherited from the Ancien Regime, for voice and guitar.
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Héloïse Gaillard, Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Ensemble Amarillis – Portraits de la Folie (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:18 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Having been relegated to a moral space of exclusion and fear in the Middle Ages, madness subsequently became a major social phenomenon: brought under control and personified as ‘Folly’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it provided scope for social and moral criticism, leading composers and librettists to give it a prominent place on the operatic stage. Here Stéphanie d’Oustrac and the Amarillis Ensemble present its multiple facets, from seduction to passionate love, from despair to joy, revealing the underlying truths of humanity in the Baroque era.
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Le Poème Harmonique, Stéphanie dOustrac & Vincent Dumestre – Mon amant de Saint-Jean (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:32 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stéphanie d’Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean , their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a recital in which the atmosphere of the chansons of the Années Folles infuses early music with its sweet madness. In 1904, the great cabaret singer Yvette Guilbert was invited to the home of the Casadesus family, the founders of the Société des Instruments Anciens (Early instrument society): the Baroque fraternised with the café-concert. Around the same time, in the revue Paris qui chante, an aria by Scarlatti rubbed shoulders with the coarse language of Aristide Bruant and Paulin, while Gaston Dumestre, a singer at the cabaret Le Chat Noir (and one of Vincent’s ancestors!), sang chansons réalistes while accompanying himself on the theorbo presented to him by Oscar II of Sweden: ‘It is in language that we must seek the common driving force. These cabaret singers relished a very special flavour, a vigour, a raciness in the words of the Baroque era’, concludes Vincent Dumestre.
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Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Arnaud Marzorati, Les Lunaisiens & Adélaïde Stroesser – Merd’v’là l’hiver: Complaintes des gens de rue (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:50 minutes | 616 MB | Genre: Classical
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It was inevitable that the abundant discography of Les Lunaisiens would one day turn its attention to the Complainte des rues, a ‘lament’ that tells the dark and tragic story of the wretched nobodies of society who can only protest their misery and hunger!
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