Dana Ciocarlie, Christiane Baume-Sanglard – Grieg, Huber, Bruch, Winkelman: Invitation à la Danse (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Dana Ciocarlie, Christiane Baume-Sanglard – Grieg, Huber, Bruch, Winkelman: Invitation à la Danse (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:39 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records

Since their first encounter in 2007 during the Swiss festival Piano à Saint-Ursanne, Christiane Baume-Sanglard and Dana Ciocarlie have started working together and collaborating as a Four-Hands Piano Duo. The female duo has since played in numerous concerts and festivals all over Europe. Through their friendship, their contrasting personalities make for a vibrant mixture of energy, poetry and musical expressiveness.

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Vinciane Béranger, Dana Ciocarlie, Helene Collerette, David Louwerse – Rebecca Clarke: Works for Viola (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Vinciane Béranger, Dana Ciocarlie, Helene Collerette, David Louwerse – Rebecca Clarke: Works for Viola (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:28 minutes | 1,02 GBGenre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Aparté

Today, with the amount of recordings aimed at rediscovering the buried treasures of past centuries, it is difficult to ignore the work of Rebecca Clarke. Viola player Vinciane Béranger, along with Dana Ciocarlie, Hélène Collerette and David Louwerse, have devoted a recording to the Clarke’s works for viola. Both a composer and a performer, Clarke was one of the foremost professional women in England. Her music, at the crossroads of various currents, navigates at different moments through French music, modality, British folklore, harmonic boldness and exoticism. There is, however, no pastiche: Clarke creates her own honey from these trends in order to construct a quite atypical language that is resolutely modern. From her masterly Viola Sonata to the poetic Morpheus, and not forgetting the trio Dumka or the duet Chinese Puzzle, the performers are keen to paint the musical portrait of this iconoclastic composer. The recording is enhanced with the world premiere of Irish Melody, a long lost score that was recently rediscovered.
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