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Le Trio Joubran – The Long March (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:24 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: World
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The sixth album of Le Trio Joubran, a landmark and a new landscape in their musical convictions. Through their mesmerizing music, they honour the struggles and oppression of indigenous peoples around the world and especially affirm that their music should be a part of the struggle of the Palestinian people for recognition and liberation. Le Trio Joubran and the former Pink Floyd legendary Roger Water’s co-wrote the track “Carry The Earth” and dedicated it the four young cousins who were murdered whilst playing football on Gaza Beach. The title of this track is from a poem by the great Mahmoud Darwish The dead who die to carry the earth after the relics are gone”.
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Le Roi Angus – Est-ce que tu vois le tigre ? (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:42 minutes | 364 MB | Genre: Indie, French Pop, Chanson
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Rares sont les groupes qui parviennent à véritablement concilier l’évidence de la pop à la profondeur de la poésie. Le Roi Angus est de ceux-là. Les genevois livrent avec « Est-ce que tu vois le tigre ? » un deuxième disque sous forme d’invitation à la curiosité et à la réflexion. Un album où prose et arrangements élégants côtoient des chansons imparables, pleines de groove… / Rare are the bands that manage to truly reconcile the evidence of the pop to the depth of the poetry. King Angus is one of those. The geneva engaged with “Is that you see the tiger ?” a second disk in the form of an invitation to curiosity and reflection. An album where prose and arrangements elegant mix of songs unstoppable, full of groove…
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Le Ren – Leftovers (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:41 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Folk
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The debut album, produced by Chris Cohen, reveals tender beauty and lively grace of the folk singer, who is usually equipped with little more than an acoustic guitar played beaten or plucked, whose large vocal spectrum within the barren instrumentations is all the more remarkable because with her encouraging, virtuosically performed melody with her crystalline vocal timbre, she shows a clarity that, Vashti Bunyan or Karen Dalton or Adrienne Lenker and yet represents American folk songwriting in the now. The album offers equal parts melancholy, deep love and exhilaration to cheer up mourners. A patchwork of personal songs about different relationships, sometimes accompanied by pedal steel, banjo, violin and also drums and bass, to which Buck Meek (Big Thief) or Tenci contributed with recorded parts. *Secretly Canadian
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Le Poème Harmonique, Les Cris de Paris, Vincent Dumestre – Son of England (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Classical
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Henry Purcell died on 21 November 1695 at the age of thirty- six. The music he had written for the funeral of Queen Mary only eight months earlier was performed again for his burial service. Soon afterwards, several composers paid tribute to Purcell by writing odes in his memory. Jeremiah Clarke’s homage to ‘Orpheus Britannicus’ in his Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell is a deeply moving token of the younger composer’s admiration. Alas, Clarke too was destined to die in his prime, and we can only imagine what the destiny of British music might have been if their lives had been prolonged. After an acclaimed production of Dido and Aeneas, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique continue their exploration of the world of Purcell and seventeenth-century English music. Constantly keeping an ear out for multiple musical ramifications, from Dowland to Lully by way of the Elizabethan masques, this new programme spotlights the genius of Jeremiah Clarke, whose sadly premature death makes us regret all the marvels he might have produced. Here is a collection of masterpieces coupling two of Purcell’s most popular works with an exceptional discovery. (c) Alpha Classics
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Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble Aedes, Vincent Dumestre – Lalande: Majesté (Collection Château de Versailles) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:32 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 1682, Versailles became the main residence of Louis XIV and it needed new assistant chapel masters; in the end, the King imposed his choice, and that was Lalande, the King’s favourite, a young man of 26 who would become Versailles’s great composer of religious music. Bringing a new vision of the orchestra after the inflexible Lully, he dared to create completely new musical architectures, with new orchestral combinations that his predecessors never attempted, foregrounding some rarer solo instruments. In this sense, he represents the missing link between Lully and Rameau, the last scion of the French baroque orchestral tradition. For this record, a little stone in the monument to Lalande’s 77 great motets, Vincent Dumestre and his Poème harmonique have chosen to showcase his first sallies in writing for the Chapelle Royale with Ecce nuncfrom 1683 and above all the grandiose Deitatis majestatem from 1681, and the record runs up to the final corrections – Lalande incessantly edited his work – of the Te Deum. This work provides the most striking sonic image of majesty: the Te Deum, composed in 1684, was re-written many times up until the 1720s, the date of the final signed edition. This version, which shows the later development of Lalande’s writing, is also made remarkable because in it the composer has noted the precise duration of each verse! This gives us a precise idea of the metronomical tempos that he used – and what a precious tool for today’s musicians. This album, recorded in public at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles, follows this demanding and unflagging rhythm to within a few dozen seconds.
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Le Poème Harmonique – Allegri & Monteverdi: Anamorfosi (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:08 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Allegri’s Miserere, its heartbreaking harmonies, its verses alternately chanted and ornamented, its seraphic voices: sheer Baroque magic. Since its composition in Rome in 1630, the work has constantly been transformed. Le Poème Harmonique approaches the score through the prism of its metamorphoses, the ornaments and transpositions added since the time when Mozart himself transcribed the piece, then jealously guarded by the Vatican, which punished publication of it with anathema. From the Renaissance onwards, musicians dressed up the finest secular tunes of their time in sacred words. The most famous example of all, the Pianto della Madonna, in which Monteverdi transferred to the Virgin Mary the mournful strains of his Lamento d’Arianna, illustrates these exchanges between repertories. Similarly, his famous Sì dolce è ’l tormento is here transformed into Sì dolce è ’l martire with the help of the mysterious Virgilio Albanese. Other masters of the period, such as Rossi, Mazzocchi and Marazzoli, also adapted their works to sacred texts. With this programme, which builds on the experience of the album Nova Metamorfosi (ALPHA 039), one of Le Poème Harmonique’s major triumphs, Vincent Dumestre celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his ensemble.
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Le Petit Trianon & Olivier Riehl – Buffardin: Sonates & Concerto (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:46 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin, a French-born flautist, was active at the court of Dresden. He is known to have been the teacher of Johann Joachim Quantz and a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote a few concertante arias for him in his cantatas. He was considered one of the greatest virtuosos of his time. This recording is the world premiere of a recently discovered collection of sonatas. Accompanied by the Concerto `a cinq parties, these sonatas represent for the flautist Olivier Riehl and the ensemble Le Petit Trianon a recreational area conducive to enjoyment, combining virtuosity, energy and expressiveness to produce a recording rich in colour and novelty.
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The Attaignant Consort – Le Parler et le Silence: Music for flute consort and lute from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:33 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording is the sequel to The Attaignant Consort’s first disc – Madame d’amours (RAM 0706) – and the third and last ina series of three recordings presenting the art of the Renaissance flute, both as solo instrument (RAM 1201) and as a consort instrument from the late fifteenth century until the middle of the seventeenth. This disc places the accent on the musical transition of the seventeenth century, and shows how the consort of flutes adapted to the new styles of composition, which pushed it to the very limits of its possibilities. This recording illustrates the repertory for flute consort from its beginnings, including examples of the first instrumental fantasias, of airs de cour in four voices, a suite of English songs, bicinia, and finally French airs enriched with Baroque ornaments from the early eighteenth century.
The ATTAIGNANT CONSORT was co-founded in 1998 by Kate Clark, Frédérique Chauvet, Marion Moonen and Marcello Gatti. Mathieu Langlois joined the ensemble in 2008. Drawn together by a fascination with the renaissance flute, they have collaborated over many years with the Italian flute-maker Giovanni Tardino, exploring the sound world of this, until now, little-known instrument. The ensemble’s work has been greatly enriched by their long-standing collaboration with distinguished English lutenist Nigel North, begun in 2007. Each of the musicians in the Attaignant Consort has a multi-facetted musical career independent of the Consort: above all performers, their combined portfolios comprise outstanding achievements in the fields of teaching, conducting, ensemble direction, editing, writing and musicology. They come together for performances as the Attaignant Consort, sharing a deep love of the poetry and music of the Renaissance and early baroque. The Attaignant Consort works from facsimile editions of original part-books rather than scores, and performs as often as possible from memory, mindful of the aural tradition of learning in which many sixteenth-century instrumentalists were educated. The ensemble not only performs written diminutions from the period, but also those composed specially for it by Kate Clark. The ensemble’s first CD Madame d’amours was released on the Ramee label, to broad critical acclaim, in October 2007.
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Le Musiche Nove – Hasse at Home – Cantatas and Sonatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:06 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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Der persönliche und musikalische Weg des in Bergedorf bei Hamburg geborenen Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783) führte vom strahlenden Barock Alessandro Scarlattis zur Klassik im Stile Joseph Haydns, von Neapel nach Wien, von Dresden nach Venedig und vom französischen zum preußischen Hof; dabei entwickelte er sich nicht nur zu einem wahren Europäer im umfassendsten Sinn des Wortes, sondern auch zu einem meisterhaften Schöpfer italienischer und lateinischer Vokalmusik. Das Ensemble Le Musiche Nove unter der Leitung von Claudio Osele betritt mit seinem neuen Album diese faszinierende Welt von Hasse nicht durch das Portal der Opernhäuser, sondern über das häufig weit prächtigere Tor der herrschaftlichen Paläste und adligen Landhäuser. Le Musiche Nove hat hierfür noch zu entdeckende Kantaten und Arien von Hasse ausgewählt: Alle Werke außer der Cembalosonate erscheinen als Weltersteinspielungen, eine davon als Ersteinspielung auf historischen Instrumenten. Auch wenn Hasse in seinen Kantaten und Arien die musikalischen Formen der Oper übernahm, verliehen der spezifische Einsatz dieser Formen und der Aufführungsort diesen Werken einen ganz eigenen Charakter; die Nähe zum Zuhörer ließ jede kleinste expressive und klangliche Geste klar hervortreten. Das Musizieren in diesen kleineren Räumlichkeiten ermöglichte es den Komponisten zu experimentieren, zu theoretisieren und nicht zuletzt sich zu zerstreuen. Diese Musikkultur ist vor allem in den beiden hier zu hörenden Arien (auf Gedichte von Paolo Rolli) zu erkennen: »Dite almeno« und »Della noiosa estate«. Die Begleitung der Stimme durch Kammerbesetzung (zwei Violinen und Basso continuo) gibt den Arien einen abgeschlossenen Charakter, womit sie als eine Art Vorboten des romantischen Lieds erscheinen. Eingedenk der Lehren Alessandro Scarlattis, zu dessen letzten Schülern er gehörte, blieb Hasse aber auch dem Kantatengenre treu. Signifikante Beispiele hierfür stellen die Kantaten »Clori mio ben« und »Perché leggiadra Irene« dar. Auf dem Album sind außerdem herausragende Instrumentalwerke von Hasse zu finden: Die Cembalosonate in G-Dur ist ein gelungenes Wechselspiel spätbarocker Formen mit den typischen Elementen jenes »galanten Stils«, der einen Gutteil des 18. Jahrhunderts bestimmte. Die Sonate für Flöte und Basso contunio Nr. 11 ist das herausragendste Werk aus der Sammlung »XII Sonate a flauto traversiere solo e basso … opera prima«, die vielleicht die bedeutendste Zusammenstellung von Instrumentalwerken ist, die zu Lebzeiten von Hasse veröffentlicht wurde.
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Le Mood – Adventures in Stereo (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:13 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Rock
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“Adventures In Stereo,” Le MOOD’s debut full-length LP, is a perfectly crafted indie pop record – upbeat, insightful, infectious, retro, and even a bit psychedelic. The songs are deeply melodic, full of energy and emotion, and showcase the band’s superb songwriting skills. “Adventures In Stereo” was released on Outright Rock Records on CD and limited edition white vinyl. The first single off the album, “Winning Hand,” is a transcendent power-pop anthem about life in the band. The album also features the songs “Silent Night” and “Poor Young & Gifted.”
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Le Miroir de Musique, Baptiste Romain – Secret Consolations (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:56 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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If Johannes Tinctoris (1435-1511) is today widely recognised as one of the most renowned music theorists of his time, he was also a perceptive observer of the musical practices of the Renaissance. After studying in Orléans, he held several positions in Cambrai, Liège and finally Naples. Here his gifts as a composer could flourish at the court of King Ferrante of Aragon as a chaplain, legal advisor and music tutor of Ferrante’s daughter Beatrice. This programme retraces his career through his extremely varied output: French and Italian songs, Mass movements, and instrumental pieces.
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Le miroir de musique & Baptiste Romain – Martini: La fleur de biaulté (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:05 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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Born in Leuze (Hainaut) around 1430, Johannes Martini was initially active in Konstanz, then in Milan and Ferrara, where he died on 23 October 1497. Closely connected with the d’Este family, he was paid in 1479 for the production of a large volume of vocal music for the ducal chapel of Ferrara. He is also the key contributor to the Casanatense Chansonnier, which was compiled for the marriage of Isabella d’Este to Gianfrancesco II Gonzaga in 1490. Thanks to these collections, we can for the first time present a glimpse of the immense output (motets, psalms, mass movements, chansons, instrumental chansons) of one of the most refined composers of the generation before Josquin’s.
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Le Miroir de Musique, Baptiste Romain – Le Miroir de Musique, Baptiste Romain (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:52 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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The composers Arnold and Hugo de Lantins were natives of the diocese of Liège, but it was in Italy, principally in Pesaro and Venice that their presence is confirmed between the years of 1420 and 1430. As with the works of Johannes Ciconia, a fellow native of Liège whose time in Italy had preceded theirs, their secular and sacred compositions are preserved in manuscripts copied in Italy. Closely rubbing shoulders with their illustrious contemporary Guillaume Dufay, the Lantins brothers combined archaic traits with the earliest characteristics of the Renaissance. Le Miroir de Musique presents a large selection of French and Italian chansons which enriches our view of the cultural sophistication of the Italian courts at the start of the 15th century.
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Le Miroir de Musique – De Lymburgia: Gaude Felix Padua (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:37 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Born around 1380 in the Duchy of Limburg, possibly in the little town of the same name, Johannes de Limburgia was active for a long time in Liège, then in Italy. We have evidence of his presence in Vicenza between 1431 and 1436, and several of his works refer explicitly to Vicenza, as well as to Venice and Padua, demonstrating a strong connection with northern Italy, where his music was compiled. His output – more than 45 works – is contained in three large manuscripts from the first half of the fifteenth century, alongside music by other composers from north of the Alps, such as Johannes Ciconia and Guillaume Dufay. Though only sacred music by Limburgia has survived, it is richly varied, reflecting both the consistency of the Franco-Flemish style and the composer’s own inventive taste for harmonic and melodic experimentation.
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Les Arts Florissants and William Christie – Le Jardin De Monsieur Rameau (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:01 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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In this new album, William Christie invites us to a wander in the vocal art of the 18th Century, at the time of Rameau and his contemporaries. These musical treasures, as with the famous gardens ‘à la française’, are closely linked to these times of splendour. The soloists come from the Jardin des Voix, the Arts Florissants’ Academy for young singers in which the most promising talents of the upcoming generation had the priviledge to work with the ensemble, before starting a worldwide tour of the most prestigious venues. This recording crowns their work.
Composer: Michel Monteclair, Antoine Dauvergne, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Nicolas Racot de Grandval, …
Performer: Emilie [Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)] Renard, Daniela [Soprano (Vocal)] Skorka, Victor [Baritone (Vocal)] Sicard, Cyril [Bass (Vocal)] Costanzo, …
Conductor: William Christie