Raphaël Sévère, Adam Laloum, Victor Julien Laferrière – Brahms: Sonata No. 1 & 2 for Clarinet and Piano – Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2018)
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Three musician friends meet here for a programme devoted to Brahms’s musical testaments. The 20-year-old clarinetist Raphaël Sévère, blessed with a magnificent sonority, and Adam Laloum, whose first disc was dedicated to Brahmsian twilights, together demonstrate that, in the burnished autumnal colours of these sonatas, the composer chose the clarinet to bid a melancholy farewell to the world. Victor Julien-Laferrière joins them for the elegiac Trio Op.114.
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Victor Julien-Laferrière, Orchestre National de France and Kristiina Poska – Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain – Dusapin: Outscape (2023)
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Victor Julien-Laferrière, winner in 2017 of the first Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium dedicated to the cello, presents here two French works for cello and orchestra: Outscape by Pascal Dusapin: “The title itself carries the musical project (…) a word rich in meaning that indicates a variety of meanings from the most common to the most philosophical. Outscape is the way or opportunity to escape, to invent a path of one’s own. I liked this word because it is basically like a summary of the history of my work.” Alongside this work composed in 2015 and here recorded in its world premiere (conducted by Kristiina Poska), the French cellist, the Orchestre National de France, this time conducted by David Robertson, celebrate Henri Dutilleux (who died just 10 years ago, on 22 May 2013), with his famous concerto, whose title is taken from a poem in Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal, La Chevelure: ” A whole far-away world, absent, almost defunct”…
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Orchestre Consuelo, Victor Julien-Laferrière – Brahms: Sérénades (2023)
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Der Cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière gründete 2019 L’Orchestre des Amis de Brahms. Der Name änderte sich bald in Orchestre Consuelo nach einer Romanfigur der Chopin-Gefährtin George Sand.
Mit ihrer Debüt-Aufnahme kehren die Musiker nun zum ersten Namensgeber zurück. Johannes Brahms’ Serenaden werfen einen sehnsüchtigen Blick in die musikalische Vergangenheit. Der kaum 25-jährige Komponist war nach seinem märchenhaften Aufstieg zur europäischen Zelebrität in eine schwere künstlerische Krise geraten. Nachdem er mit dem d-Moll-Klavierkonzert vor dem Publikum gescheitert war, tauchte er mit den Serenaden in die stilistische Welt Mozarts, Haydns und Beethovens ein.
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Victor Julien-Laferrière & Jonas Vitaud – Rachmaninov, Shostakovich & Denisov (2019)
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The winner of the very first Queen Elisabeth Competition for cellists in Brussels in 2017, Victor Julien-Laferrière also received the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2018 in the category ‘Soloist of the Year’. His chamber recordings with the pianist Adam Laloum have won numerous awards, including a Diapason d’Or of the Year in 2016. Victor Julien-Laferrière now joins Alpha Classics for several recordings. The French cellist, who studied successively with Roland Pidoux, Heinrich Schiff and Clemens Hagen, has decided to record two peaks of his instrument’s repertory, the Sonatas of Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich, alongside the pianist Jonas Vitaud, with whom he enjoys a close rapport. They have given this programme in concert together on many occasions. A rare piece by Russian composer Edison Denisov completes the recording: the Variations on a Theme by Schubert, composed in 1986.
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Victor Julien-Laferriere – Live at the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 (2018)
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Cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière (born 1990) was a follower of René Benedetti, Roland Pidoux and Heinrich Schiff, in a dazzling career which saw him take the 1st Prize at the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, after also having won 1st Prize at the 2012 Prague Spring International Music Competition. Since, his career has seen him play with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the National d’Ile de France and many others, as well as partnering with chamber musicians like Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Adam Laloum, Jonas Vitaud, Raphaël Sévère and Lise Berthaud. This is the recording, made in public, naturally, of the semi-final and final of the famous Belgian competition: the Second Concerto by Haydn, the Sonata in F Majorby Brahms alongside pianist Théo Fouchenneret, and then the formidable First Concertoby Shostakovitch, to which he brings an extraordinary energy and diabolical tension from the first to the last note.
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Victor Julien-Laferrière – Dvořák & Martinů: Cello Concertos (2021)
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Victor Julien-Laferrière, the very first winner of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition for Cellists in Brussels, joined Alpha Classics in 2019 for several recordings.
After his first recital album, which he has dedicated to works by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Denisov together with pianist Jonas Vitaud, he now presents a cello concerto by Antonín Dvořák (the Second, Op. 104) and Bohuslav Martinů (No. 1, H. 196). He will be accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Liège under the direction of Gergely Madaras.
Adam Laloum, Victor Julien Laferrière – Brahms, Franck & Debussy: Sonates pour violoncelle & piano (2016)
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Between post-Romanticism and Symbolism, three masterpieces for cello and piano, created between 1865 and 1915 on either side of the Rhine. And two young talents of the twenty-first century who present their enthralling vision of these three facets of ‘Art Nouveau’.
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