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Marco Angioloni & Ensemble Contraste – Dolce Vita – French and Italian Songs & Chansons (1932-1956) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:30 minutes | 887 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glossa
For as long as I can remember, I have loved and admired France, and especially the city of Paris – ever since my first visit as a young boy: I was captivated by the powerful charm of the country to the point of falling in love with it and later settling there. And today, after living there for over a decade, I still feel the same sense of wonder for this city. In this album, I pay homage to my two homelands with a selection of pieces and songs that grasp the essence of the 20th century, from the period between the two wars and in the 1950’s.
Each of these pieces resonates in my ears: I can still hear my mother and my grandmother humming them, in our Italian family fascinated by Paris. This selection reveals the great variety of styles and tastes of the period, from the supercharged ambiance of cabarets to the intimacy of Italian salons.
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Karine Deshayes, Ensemble Contraste – Après un rêve (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:00 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
This recording from French mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes and Ensemble Contraste explores familiar tunes of French Romanticism. Featuring works from Berlioz, Fauré, Gounod, Massenet and more, this delicious program paints a picture of music and life in the Parisian salons.
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Ensemble Contraste – J.S. Bach: Transcriptions (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:43 minutes | 930 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
Moving from the harpsichord to the clavichord or the organ was probably easy enough for Johann Sebastian Bach. The source of the sound didn’t matter, because for the master of Leipzig, what counted were thought and intellect: the form, tonality and melodic contours ere more important than the instrument itself. And indeed, through this work of musical thought, Bach used different keyboards, prefiguring the instruments to come: the piano as a synthesis of the harpsichord, the organ and the clavichord.
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Ensemble Contraste – Une prière (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:51 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Ernest Bloch’s Suite Hébraïque was the starting point for this programme: ‘This music came as a revelation to us. Its language is overwhelming and tells of the ravages of the twentieth century. The other composers in this programme (Ravel, Bloch, Bruch, Prokofiev, Shostakovich) each in their own way experienced the full force of this tormented century and drew inspiration from the most timeless and universal aspects of folk and sacred repertories, the better to respond to the brutality of the age’, say violist Arnaud Thorette and pianist Johan Farjot, who devised this programme. Johan Farjot has also arranged John Williams’s famous Schindler’s List theme for viola and cello. An intense and poignant experience, also featuring other superb artists: Antoine Pierlot (cello), Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), and Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu (violin).
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