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Victoire Bunel, Jean-Christophe Lanièce & Romain Louveau – Schubert: Voyage d’hiver (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:38 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © B Records
With this new b*records disc, the Miroirs Etendus company revisits one of the greatest classics of the Lieder repertoire, questioning the interpretative heritage that has long been associated with it. Pianist and artistic director Romain Louveau, baritone Jean-Christophe Laniece and soprano Victoire Bunel propose a multi-voiced Winterreise that disembodies the overused figure of the Wanderer and favors the autonomy of Wilhelm Muller’s poems. Like the Schubertian motifs that seem to appear of their own accord, only to eclipse themselves, the musicians venture a depersonalized interpretation that places the figure of the stranger at the center of this lyrical spectacle.
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Tonkünstler-Orchester & Ola Rudner – Suppé: Fantasia Symphonica, Orchestral Overtures & Preludes (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:35 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
In addition to having written the first Viennese operetta, Franz von Suppé was a master of the Italian, French and German styles which he blended like an alchemist to form his own unique, irrepressible compositions. Two imperishable examples are here, the overtures Poet and Peasant and Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna. This album also explores his previously unrecorded Fantasia Symphonica, recently rediscovered in Viennese archives by conductor Ola Rudner, which displays masterful orchestration, distinctive melodies and a mastery of counterpoint. Other rarities complete this fresh look at the breadth of Suppé’s ambition.
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Theo May’s Odd Unit – Alive in the Forest of Odd (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:31 minutes | 724 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Discus Music
An engaging and dynamic mix of compositions from this young protegé of the late Keith Tippett, where the jazz is strongly influenced by the English pastoral tradition. The result is both brand new and nostalgic, conjuring up a strong sense of atmosphere and place.
Odd Unit was originally formed in 2019 by Theo May bringing together jazz and classical students from the Royal College, Royal Academy and Guildhall schools of music in London to perform and record Theo’s original compositions. This first album adds additional musicians to bulk out the sound and bring a new dynamic to the group, and was recorded in late 2022.
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton – Briggs: Hail, gladdening Light & Other Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:53 minutes | 2,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
In their recording of choral works by organist and composer David Briggs (*1962), Stephen Layton and the choir of Trinity College Cambridge revel in the splendor of the Saint-Eustache church in Paris. Almost apocalyptic masses of sound envelop the Gothic vaults when the full power of the first-class Trinity Choir and the mighty van den Heuvel organ from 1989 is unleashed.
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Sandrine Piau, Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier – Reflet (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:03 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
“Clair Obscur (Alpha 727), dedicated to German lieder with orchestra, explored the antagonism between light and shadow. Reflet conjures up the nuances and transparencies of French melodies. There is in reflection the idea of an echo, the shadow of a disquieting double, of a plural, diffracted sparkle… A clash of deceptive mirages, a kaleidoscope of senses and flashes of light, it interweaves in strange parallels the score of our lives, adorned with gold and illusions”, writes Sandrine Piau. Berlioz, Gauthier, Britten, Hugo, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Duparc, Koechlin, Ravel, Mallarme… the encounters between these composers and poets “create in me a firework display of colours and shimmers”, concludes the French soprano, who is making her 14th recording for Alpha Classics.
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