Tatiana Samouil, David Lively, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Lise Berthaud, Claire Désert – Debussy: Sonates, danses et rhapsodies (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:43 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
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Along with the Etudes and En blanc et noir of 1915, Claude Debussy‘s three sonatas constitute the last will and testament of the composer, who died in Paris on March 25, 1918. It’s not due to there being the final works in Debussy‘s chronology that confer this privilege open them so much as the fact that they perfectly manifest the composer’s ideal of French music distinguished by « clarity, elegance, simple and natural declamation (in which) seeks, above all, to please. How could one better describe these three masterpieces ?
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Claire Désert, Emmanuel Strosser – Schubert: Piano à quatre mains (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:22 minutes | 949 MB | Genre: Classical
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From his very first surviving work, a fantasy, to the masterpieces composed in the year of his death in 1828, Schubert left more than thirty-five scores for piano four hands. He imposed drama, grandeur and virtuosity on the genre, suspending time to follow the rhythm of his eternal traveller’s footsteps. For more than twenty years now, in intense symbiosis, Claire Désert and Emmanuel Strosser have been exploring together the unique world of Schubert’s piano duets.
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Claire Désert – Schumann: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 – Études sur un thème de Beethoven, WoO 31 & Geistervariationen, WoO 24 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:43 minutes | 2,00 GB | Genre: Classique
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From one recording to the next, French pianist Claire D’esert continues her exploration of Schumann’s piano works with a new album focussed on the variation genre. She explores the manifold, elusive moods found in the “Symphonic Studies”, the “Etudes in Variation form on a Theme of Beethoven” and the “Geistervariationen” (Ghost Variations), like a diary of the composer. From a tribute to Beethoven to the ultimate variations composed right before sinking into the Rhine, it is all Romanticism that is sung by Schumann’s piano, with its breaks and ideals.
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Claire Désert – Schumann (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:59 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Since her very first disc, Claire Désert has summoned the Schumannian rages in solo or in chamber music.
Here, with three major piano works, she portrays the soul of German Romanticism, from its dark forests to its popular romances.
This is also the whole universe of Schumann, between virtuosity, madness and fervour.
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Anne Gastinel, Claire Désert – Schubert: Sonate Arpeggione (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:09 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: Classical
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In 2005 Anne Gastinel and Claire Désert recorded this Schubert programme and were rewarded with a RTL d’or and a Gramophone Editor’s Choice.
The magic of this iconoclastic programme (Anne Gastinel transcribed the lieder herself) lies in assimilation rather than imitation. The cello absorbs sonata, sonatina and lieder as though they had all been written for it: in fact it is the cello that has saved the sonata for posterity now that the arpeggione is long forgotten.
Since winning the Rostropovich Competition in 1990, Anne Gastinel, has had scant regard for her “classical” image. Through her close rapport with pianist Claire Désert she has recreated a repertory of songs by a composer that she loves, without the absence of words taking anything away from the capacity to move. “Delicate, fine, natural. Never overstated, never the slightest trace of sentimentality, yet constantly singing, [this performance] is, warm and noble”, wrote Le Nouvel Observateur.
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Anne Gastinel, Claire Désert – Chopin (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:52 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Other than the piano, there were few instruments on which Chopin focused his attention, which makes this album featuring cellist Anne Gastinel something of a rarity. Their united voice – as always, remote from the chorus of the mundane and the media-fixated – is a subtle, inspired cantilena. For here it is all about the singing voice that Chopin declared to be his model, overtly influenced as he was by Italian bel canto opera. Anne Gastinel savours every moment, not only with the sense of refinement she shares with the greatest singers, but with a palpable musical breathing, sensitively illuminated at the piano by Claire Désert, an accompanist in the very noblest tradition.
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