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Les Kapsber’girls – Vous avez dit Brunettes ? (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Les Kapsber’girls, an ensemble of four singers and instrumentalists directed by the lutenist Albane Imbs, has already released its debut album (Che fai tù?, released on Muso) which received several awards. The group now joins Alpha for several recordings, starting with Vous avez dit Brunettes? – ‘brunettes’ being the name of the chansons that lovers crooned in each others’ ears by the Bassin d’Apollon or among the groves of the Petit Trianon at Versailles Palace, undeniably light in character yet powerfully authentic. Seventeenth-century France was home to a host of artists whose talent served the nobility and the bourgeoisie, who were extremely partial to these airs. Performing them as vocal solos or duets with lute or viol, Les Kapsber’girls bring back to life, more than three centuries later, these works published by Ballard & Fils, printers to the Sun King, alongside such little-known composers as Julie Pinel and Giuseppe Saggione.
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Les inAttendus – Poetical Humors (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:25 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Unexpected? The pairing of viola da gamba and accordion is certainly that! But perhaps even more surprising is how well the singing strings of the veteran instrument harmonize with the subtly vibrating reeds of the centuries-younger newcomer. Also unexpected is this cross-generational meeting of two musicians (what are the odds?), who found each other exploring the ‘poetical humours’ of early seventeenth-century England. Recently reunited in the recording studio after several seasons of rapturously received recitals, with this well-timed album the duo Les inAttendus makes its first entry into the harmonia mundi catalogue.
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Les Folies Françoises, Patrick Cöhen-Akenine & Beatrice Martin – Portraits Croisés (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:31 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoMadMusic
François Couperin, whose 350th birthday we celebrate this year, defined himself as a creator of musical portraits. The eloquent and sometimes exotic titles of many of these pieces bear witness to this. From the Nations to the Collected Tastes, as well as the Royal Concerts and the harpsichord repertoire, Les Folies françoises have painted throughout this album a portrait that pays homage to one of the greatest composers of the Sun King’s court.
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Les Evadés – Black Mamba (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:38 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Super Ranch
Le nouvel album du collectif Les Évadés disponible le 31 mai!
Le groupe Les Évadés est de retour et présente son 2e album « Black Mamba ». Disponible partout en magasin et en ligne à partir du 31 mai, « Black Mamba » se distingue par l’audace et le côté novateur dont il fait preuve.
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Les Epopées & Stéphane Fuget – Lully – Dies Irae (Collection Grands motets, Vol. 1) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:07 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles
The notion of interpretation constantly raises the question of how to read a score, and therefore of the very subject matter of the score. Particularly in the Baroque period, and especially in the seventeenth-century, the score is but an infrastructure that the composer leaves behind to allow his work to be brought to life. One should not be led astray by it as you might by a trompel’œil; it lacks a great deal of information: nuances, instrumentation, ornaments, playing styles, etc. The majority of these composers thus leave the performers a great deal of latitude for the completion of their scores in order to bring them to back to life.
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Les Enfants d’Apollon, Michael Greenberg – Royer: Pyrrhus (Live Recording at La Salle des Croisades du Château de Versailles) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:22:03 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
ROYER: After languishing in obscurity for over two centuries, Pancrace Royer (1705-1755) is now quite well-known for his elegant and dramatic harpsichord music. Music master to the children of Louis XV and composer of the King’s Chamber, General Inspector of the Paris Opéra and director of the Concert Spirituel, Royer is also remembered as the subject of a 1742 police report for getting into a heated argument with his rival Jean-Philippe Rameau in public, and for incurring the wrath of Voltaire when he set that author’s ‘Pandore’ to music without asking permission to modify the text! Decidedly, Royer is a figure worthy of further investigation.
Pyrrhus: was the first of several works Royer composed for the Paris Opera and his only tragédie en musique. Withdrawn after seven performances, it has never been revived. This concert will be its modern premiere – not an unusual occurrence in the world of historically informed performance, but Pyrrhus is distinctive because it is one of the few operas created at the Paris Opera for which the original performance material has survived intact. Theoretically, if the manuscripts were to be placed before the same number of musicians as participated in the creation, it would be possible to give the eighth show… nearly three hundred years later! A most remarkable means of time travel.
Les Éléments & Joël Suhubiette – Iberia (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:30 minutes | 942 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
‘Iberia: Polyphonies Espagnoles et Portugaises de la Renaissance à Aujourd’Hui’ is a musical journey through time across the Iberian peninsula.
From the medieval Spain of Alfonso The Wise to that of the Renaissance with Guerrero and Victoria, we are led to the Portugal of Lôbo and Cardoso, masters of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony.
The voyage ends with two contemporary creations that continue this tradition, by the Portuguese António Chagas Rosa and the Spaniard Iván Solano.
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Les Dominos, Florence Malgoire – Jacquet de la Guerre: Violin Sonatas (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:30 minutes | 756 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar
It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Dictionnaire de Musique who quoted the philosopher Fontenelle’s famous outburst ‘Sonata, what do you want from me?’. The Italian sonata was the fashion in France at that time and composers had abandoned the character pieces and the works in dance forms that had typified French music until then. Couperin, a proud champion of French music who was nonetheless attracted by the charms of Italian music, had tried to reconcile the musical tastes of the two nations by giving illustrative titles to the various movements of his sonatas.
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Les Dissonances & David Grimal – Chausson, Ravel, Enescu (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:01 minutes | 579 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
The works of George Enescu, a Romanian composer nurtured on the musical traditions of his country, also has deep roots in the French musical world of the early twentieth century. This disc explores that twofold ancestry, which made Enescu, an outstandingly charismatic personality, a veritable bridge between Romania and France.
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Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain – Passions (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:54 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Alternating between transcendentally inspired secular music and sacred music embodied in theatrical fashion, Geoffroy Jourdain invites us to explore the multiple expressions of human passions: this new adventure of Les Cris de Paris, built around several settings of the ‘Crucifixus’ (including Lotti’s extraordinarily intense versions), urges us to follow a bold Via Dolorosa to the very heart of Venetian Baroque music.
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Les Brown & His Band Of Renown – Today (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 29:31 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
Lester Raymond “Les” Brown, Sr. was an American clarinetist, saxophonist, big band leader and composer, best known for his nearly seven decades of work with the big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown. The Band of Renown began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, led by Brown while he was a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The band now performs under the direction of his son, Les Brown, Jr.
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Les Chats Noirs – Les Chats Noirs (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 47:22 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Forward Music Italy Srl
Based on an idea by Renato Gattone. An accordion, a manouche guitar and a double bass give the rhythm to the Les Chats Noirs’ first album, a band that mixes traditional atmospheres constantly looking for contamination and for the research of new musical horizons. An album full of Parisian feeling, evoked by a sinuous voice that warms the contemporary taste, also underlined by a Fender Rhodes piano. A narration weaving together music and poetry, moving from Baudelaire’s verses to the pop music of a century later.
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Les Cinq Modernes – Continental Jazz (Remastered from the Original Somerset Tapes) (1960/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:28 minutes | 705 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Somerset
Al Hendrickson became one of the most prolifically recorded studio guitarists in the history of American music following a career as a jazz and dance band guitarist and studies as a classical stringmeister. His name is frequently mutilated in recording credits, leading to the mistaken if perhaps understandable conclusion that more than one guitarist was responsible for all this work. He can be cited as the missing link between the Weavers and the Monkees or between artists with such cool names yet diverse styles as country novelty king Sheb Wooley and bebop pianist Dodo Marmarosa. Famous records this guitarist contributed to include “Moon River,” “Memories Are Made of This,” and “Goodnight, Irene.”
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Les Baxter and his Orchestra – The Exotic Worlds Of…Les Baxter! Vol. 2 (Remastered) (2009/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:22 minutes | 542 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Leslie Thompson Baxter was an American musician and composer. After becoming well known as an arranger and composer for swing bands in the 1940s, he developed his own style of world music-influenced easy listening music, known as exotica, during the 1950s and 1960s. Baxter’s heyday was in the ’50s and ’60s. Although he continued to compose and record in the ’70s, his output was sporadic. Nevertheless, a cult following formed around his exotica recordings that persisted into the ’90s.
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Les Baxter and his Orchestra – The Exotic Worlds Of…Les Baxter! Vol. 1 (Remastered) (2009/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:55 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Les Baxter is a pianist who composed and arranged for the top swing bands of the ’40s and ’50s, but he is better known as the founder of exotica, a variation of easy listening that glorified the sounds and styles of Polynesia, Africa, and South America, even as it retained the traditional string-and-horn arrangements of instrumental pop. Exotica became a massively popular trend in the ’50s, with thousands of record buyers listening to Baxter, Martin Denny, and their imitators. Baxter also pioneered the use of the electronic instrument the theremin, which has a haunting, howling sound.
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