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I Giardini – Bleu (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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The poetic universe that emerges from the blue color fascinates Pauline Buet and David Violi: the blue note, the blues at heart … This color evokes nostalgia, spleen, but also sweet melancholy, happy nostalgia. When the Yves Saint Laurent Museum offered them to make this recording at the Villa Majorelle in Marrakech, the magnificent resonance between the Blue Majorelle and this program was imposed naturally: Chopin, the romantic in love and Poulenc, the tormented eccentric. In conclusion, the piano mixes with Pauline’s voice as often at the end of their concerts and the touching and nostalgic lyrics of Barbara’s song September – “What a nice time to say goodbye” – are still an illustration of the spirit of the program, like a delicious madeleine.
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I Giardini – Caroline Shaw: The Wheel (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:51 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the American composer Caroline Shaw, writing music is like ‘cooking someone you love a meal’, she told BBC Music Magazine. The youngest-ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Shaw has premiered works at Carnegie Hall and the BBC Proms. She has even toured the US with Kanye West and appeared in the hit HBO series Mozart in the Jungle… Good food and music ‘should be nourishing and complex; they should be something that you can taste easily in the beginning before you find there’s much more underneath’. As the journalist Kate Wakeling points out: ‘This sounds much like Shaw’s own music. Her work combines immediate, sensuous appeal with taut structural rigour.’ This album is the outcome of a meeting between the composer and David Violi, Pauline Buet and their partners from I Giardini. It presents a monograph of chamber music, including a world premiere recording, The Wheel , a dialogue between the voice of the cello and the piano.
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Véronique Gens, I Giardini – Nuits (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:39 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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As the symbiosis between the art of the poet and that of the composer, the French mélodie became the jewel of the salons of the ‘Belle Époque’. By placing a string quartet and a piano around the singer, Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle, Lekeu’s Nocturne and Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson oscillate between chamber musical intimacy and orchestral ambition. Alongside these famous pioneering pieces, this programme devised by the Palazzetto Bru Zane champions a return to the art of transcription, so popular in the nineteenth century, with the aim of expanding the repertory for voice, strings and piano in order to unearth some forgotten treasures. Hence Hahn, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, La Tombelle, Ropartz, Louiguy and Messager all appear in a programme whose guiding thread is the emotions of nocturnal abandonment: the charms of twilight, the trajectory of dreams, the terror of nightmare or the exhilaration of festive occasions. Alexandre Dratwicki has made these arrangements in the style of the nineteenth century. Appropriately enough, the programme ends with La Vie en rose, for this music offers a kaleidoscope of all the colours of human feeling. The texture of solo strings and piano sets Véronique Gens’s incomparable storytelling artistry in a new ligh.
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