Anna Stéphany, Labyrinth Ensemble – Berio, Ravel & Falla: Black Is the Colour (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Anna Stéphany, Labyrinth Ensemble – Berio, Ravel & Falla: Black Is the Colour (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:38 minutes | 955 MB | Genre: Classical
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Alpha continues its collaboration with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and its Academy, which will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2018. We invite you to discover artists of great talent who take us on a trip to Auvergne, Sicily, Armenia and Azerbaijan thanks to Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, to Andalusia with Falla’s Psyché on a poem of Georges-Jean Aubry, and to the world of Jules Renard with Ravel’s Histoires naturelles. The last-named are recorded in a version for chamber ensemble: ‘Since Ravel gave Manuel Rosenthal to make an arrangement for large orchestra which we found rather overblown, we set out to find a “chasseur d’images” (to quote the title of one of Renard’s Histoires naturelles poems) who could transcribe the work without losing its intimate, delicate aspect. . . . We hope you will be as charmed as we are by Arthur Lavandier’s work, which beautifully conveys the immensely refined timbres and nuances of Ravel’, says the oboist Clément Noël, a member of the Swiss Ensemble Labyrinth. Anna Stéphany is a true revelation, performing this programme with the technique, the sensuality and the emotional impact that earned her a huge triumph in Mozart at last summer’s Glyndebourne Festival.

Tracklist:
01. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Black Is the Colour (02:51)
02. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: I Wonder as I Wander (02:07)
03. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Loosin yelav (03:10)
04. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Rossignolet du bois (01:31)
05. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: A la femminisca (01:22)
06. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: La donna ideale (01:25)
07. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Ballo (01:30)
08. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Motettu de tristura (03:00)
09. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Malurous qu’o uno fenno (00:52)
10. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Lo fiolaire (02:56)
11. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Folk Songs: Azerbaijan Love Song (02:30)
12. Labyrinth Ensemble – Introduction et Allegro in G-Flat Major, M. 46 (10:58)
13. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Histoires naturelles, M. 50: I. Le paon en Fa Majeur (05:24)
14. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Histoires naturelles, M. 50: II. Le grillon en La Mineur (03:29)
15. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Histoires naturelles, M. 50: III. Le cygne en Si Majeur (03:29)
16. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Histoires naturelles, M. 50: IV. Le martin-pêcheur en Fa Dièse Majeur (03:15)
17. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Histoires naturelles, M. 50: VI. La pintade en Mi Majeur (03:33)
18. Anna Stéphany / Labyrinth Ensemble – Psyché (05:08)

Personnel:
Anna Stéphany (mezzo)
Labyrinth Ensemble

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