Edgar Moreau, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Poga – Weinberg, Dutilleux: Cello Concertos (2023)
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Lyricism and Confidence – Cellist Edgar Moreau with Works by Weinberg and Dutilleux.
“His sound is superb, his phrasing delightful, and the intensity of his performance is enhanced by the immediacy of his presence in the soundstage,” Grammophone Magazine already wrote about Edgar Moreau’s previous album on Erato. Now the cellist, together with the WDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Andris Poga, releases a recording of works by the Pole Mieczysław Weinberg and his contemporary Henri Dutilleux.
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Edgar Moreau, Il Pomo d’Oro & Riccardo Minasi – Giovincello (2015)
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Though the title Giovincello seems to make a specific musical reference, it is simply an affectionate Italian term meaning ‘young man’. Only 20 years old when he recorded this album, Edgar Moreau ‘has already found his place in the great tradition of French cello-playing’ (Diapason). Here he brings his youthful energy and virtuosic thrills to 18th-century cello concertos by Haydn, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Platti, and the world-premiere recording of a Baroque concerto by Carlo Graziani.
The centrepiece of Giovincello is Haydn’s Cello Concerto No 1 in C major, which is joined by Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor RV 419 and three concertos by somewhat lesser-known Italian composers of the 18th century who all made careers outside their native country: Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) – an important figure in the history of chamber music – who spent much of his life in Spain; Giovanni Platti (1697-1763), who lived for more than 40 years in Würzburg in Bavaria, and Carlo Graziani (.-1787), a somewhat shadowy figure who became cello teacher to Frederick Wilhelm II of Prussia and whose Cello Concerto in C Major is given its world-premiere recording here.
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Edgar Moreau, David Kadouch – Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas (2018)
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No-one could think that Edgar Moreau and David Kadouch had an easy job in selecting the programme for this album, which begins with the expansive and impressive Grand Dramatic Sonata (Grande sonate dramatique) “Titus et Bérénice”, by Rita Strohl (1865-1941), a pseudonym of Aimée Marie Marguerite Mercédès Larousse La Villette, a French composer of the same vein as Franck or Saint-Saëns. Rita Strohl has gone down in history as an astounding character: she had the idea of creating a kind of French Bayreuth, La Grange, in Bièvres (!) with the support of Odilon Redon and a number of other artists of the day; it was done in aid of performing Rita’s operas – monumental works, more than a match for any of the most colossal excesses of Scriabin: a Christian cycle, a Celtic cycle lasting five days, a Hindu cycle in seven. The sheer size of these projects was overwhelming, to say nothing of other troubles such as the start of the First World War and other personal troubles of Strohl’s. All the same, this Sonata reveals in Strohl a figure bursting with talents and ideas, which Moreau and Kadouch bring to life with unstinting devotion. Poulenc’s little-performed Sonata for Cello and Piano follows: a delicious taste of Poulenc’s “light” output, which almost classes as salon music. The other great moment on the album is Franck’s Sonata, as re-written by Jules Desart during the composer’s lifetime. The album also offers a little rarity from Fernand de La Tombelle, one of the founding members of the Schola Cantorum, whose score relates to the work of Reynaldo Hahn. This ample album closes with a world-first Poulenc recording (such a thing is still possible!), Souvenirs. It is well-named: the piano part appears to recall (or prefigure) the dramas of Dialogues, while the cello, which only intervenes occasionally, shows off Poulenc’s salon voice!
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Edgar Moreau – Offenbach & Gulda: Cello Concertos (2019)
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Edgar Moreau performs two cello concertos which bravely and wittily challenge convention. Offenbach’s ambitious Grand Concerto in G major culminates in military fireworks, while Friedrich Gulda’s Concerto for Cello, Wind Orchestra and Band – written 130 years later – is a dazzling stylistic kaleidoscope. Moreau is joined by conductor Raphaël Merlin and the dynamic orchestral collective Les Forces Majeures.
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Edgar Moreau – A Family Affair (2020)
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The young French cellist Edgar Moreau, an established Erato artist, is joined by his siblings – the violinists Raphaëlle and David and the pianist Jérémie – for Dvořák’s five Bagatelles op 47 and Korngold’s Suite op 23. As David points out, works for the combination of two violins, cello and piano are unusual: “These are wonderful pieces that are rarely played, so this is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on them.” When it comes to playing as a family, Edgar feels that “There’s something that works almost instinctively,” while Raphaëlle explains that “We don’t need to look at each other, and we breathe together in a certain way. There’s something very strong about it.” Completing the programme are transcriptions of much-loved operatic arias from Dvořák’s Rusalka and Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, performed by Edgar and Jérémie
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Edgar Moreau – Transmission (2022)
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If you were to set out making a film about a charismatic millennial who decides to devote his life to music, Edgar Moreau’s magical first encounter with the cello would provide a memorable opening scene. He recalls what happened in vivid detail: “My father was an antique dealer and took me with him to visit a shop in Paris where he was selling paintings. I must have been three or four years old at the time. At the back of this shop I saw a little girl playing her cello. Right away, I fell in love with the instrument. That’s how everything began.”
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Title: London Symphony Orchestra – The Young Debussy
Release Date: 2019
Genre: Classical
Conductor: François-Xavier Roth
Artists: London Symphony Orchestra, Edgar Moreau (cello)
Production/Label: LSO Live
Duration: 01:30:12
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: H.264
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 27969 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 20,02 GB
The evocative music of Claude Debussy has been described as the foundation of modern music. How did the composer come to develop his unique style though? One of today’s most charismatic conductors, with a reputation for enterprising programming, LSO Principal Guest Conductor François-Xavier Roth presents the UK premiere of a previously lost work by the young Debussy, alongside some of his earliest inspirations.
Debussy’s newly-discovered Première Suite gives a rare insight into just that – the mind of a young composer on the cusp of innovation. It’s a work filled with Romantic and Eastern influences, with glimpses of the unexpected harmonies that came to define Debussy’s work.
Paired alongside the composer’s role models, from Wagner’s powerful intertwining motifs, the abundant Spanish influences in Lalo’s rarely-heard Cello Concerto and Massenet’s majestic Le Cid, François-Xavier Roth gives a fresh perspective on the much-loved composer.
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