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François Lazarevitch, Justin Taylor – C. P. E. Bach: Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:52 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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With these sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, François Lazarevitch continues the exploration of the jewels of the flute and recorder repertory he has embarked on with Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien or as a soloist with recordings of music by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi and van Eyck. François Lazarevitch and Justin Taylor now bring their sensitivity and virtuosity to bear on the sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.
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Les Ombres, Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre, Fiona McGown, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Justin Taylor, Hanna Salzenstein – Bach-Abel Society (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:35 minutes | 2,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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J.S. Bach’s son Johann Christian arrived in London in 1762, and with his fellow composer Carl Friedrich Abel established a series of prestigious concerts that ran for 17 years. Music heard at the Bach-Abel recitals is surveyed on this intriguing album by the Swiss ensemble Les Ombres. The sprightly Quartet in D Major by J.C. Bach, two pensive pieces for bass viol by Abel, and a charmingly Mozartian Harpsichord Quintet by Johann Samuel Schröter are among the highlights, and three of Haydn’s numerous arrangements of Scottish songs are brightly sung by mezzo-soprano Fiona McGown. Les Ombres play on period instruments, imparting an extra tang to this fascinating slice of aural history.
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Justin Taylor – Bach & l’Italie (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:51 minutes | 2,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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Johann Sebastian Bach hardly ever left his native Saxony, yet he was always up to date on what was going on elsewhere in Europe. Naturally, he paid close attention to innovations from Italy, the cradle of the concertante style, and instilled transalpine sparkle in his brilliant counterpoint, especially in his keyboard works. Proof of this may be found in the pieces based on originals by the Venetians Antonio Vivaldi and Benedetto Marcello, in which Bach transcends everything with his polyphonic genius. In the large-scale Italian Concerto, the future composer of the Goldberg Variations revisits Corelli and, once again, Vivaldi.
After several solo recordings devoted to musical dynasties (La Famille Forqueray, La Famille Rameau and Les Freres Francoeur), Justin Taylor sets off on a voyage of exploration of Bach and Italy.
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Le Consort – Justin Taylor – Opus 1 : Dandrieu, Corelli (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:43 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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Although Dandrieu is best-known for his talents as an organist, his trio sonatas deserve a prominent position in the chamber music of the period. They show a stunning mastery of style and variety of characters. Dances overflowing with energy, mischievous and impetuous counterpoint between the three parts, movements with highly expressive Italianate suspensions, articulation, phrasing, rhythm, gentleness, passion – in a word, life. He published them under the title Premier Œuvre in 1705, when he was twenty-three years old, our own age when we first met and played these sonatas: Opus 1 was therefore a natural choice as the title for this album!’ say the members of Le Consort.
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Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin & Justin Taylor – Haydn : Symphony No. 83 “La Poule”, Piano Concerto No.17 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:02 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Thanks to Julien Chauvin and his ensemble La Loge, the programs of the Concert Spirituel’s evenings in the late 18th century Paris come back to life. The so called Haydn’s “symphonies parisiennes” are the core of their musical project which also features contemporary composers, some of them are still unknown.
After “La Reine”, Julien Chauvin and his musicians release “La Poule”, which mischievous doted notes are famous, and Marie-Alexandre Guénin’s Third Symphony. In addition to being a member of the Concert Spirituel’s orchestra as a violinist, Guénin was a teacher and a composer. This score, typical of the Sturm und Drang dramatic gestures, has nothing to envy to the works of his more prominent peers.
The disc ends with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, K 453 performed by the young and talented Justin Taylor on the fortepiano. His technique allows his sensibility and intelligence to blossom freely so that the soloist can offer a pure moment of delicacy.
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Justin Taylor – La Famille Forqueray: Portrait(s) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:15 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Classical
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Justin Taylor, the winner of the 2015 edition of the celebrated harpsichord competition of the Musica Antiqua Festival in Bruges (which has honoured some of the world’s finest players, including Scott Ross, Christophe Rousset, Pierre Hantaï, Benjamin Alard, and more recently Jean Rondeau), has recorded for Alpha Classics a programme of music by the Forqueray family: Antoine, Michel, Jean-Baptiste, Nicolas-Gilles . . . Those are just some of the first names of a great dynasty of French composers, gambists and organists. Antoine Forqueray, born in 1672, obtained the highly coveted position of Musicien de la Chambre du Roi. He subsequently had, shall we say, a complicated relationship with his son Jean-Baptiste, born in 1699 . . . Envious of the boy’s talent for the viol, Antoine had him imprisoned when he was just sixteen years old! The recital, as well as painting a musical portrait of this unique family, also offers a chance to reflect on the issue of transcription. In fact, the suites performed here on the harpsichord were originally written for viola da gamba. The passage from one instrument to another, from one soundworld to another, sheds new light on the music and allows us to grasp its full originality.
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Justin Taylor – Continuum (Scarlatti – Ligeti) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:15 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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It was when he heard a harpsichordist playing for the students at the university in his home town of Angers that Justin Taylor first discovered this instrument and its intriguing sound. He split his time between the piano and a harpsichord apprenticeship that he took with Olivier Beaumont and Blandine Rannou, also following masterclasses from Skip Sempé and Pierre Hantaï. What followed was a modern fairytale. The young man made furious progress, swiftly becoming a poster boy for the French harpsichord, winning the Bruges Competition and being named the musical “Revelation” of 2017, at the age of 23. A first album, dedicated to the Family Forqueray (Alpha, Qobuzissime) was showered in plaudits and soon followed by a number of concerts at prestigious festivals, which seem not to have remotely changed this young Franco-American. For his second project with Alpha Classics, Justin Taylor deftly blends Scarlatti with Ligeti, a composer he knows well, having played his formidable Continuum at the admission competition for the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMD). In this new album, Scarlatti’s harmonic daring joins a György Ligeti fascinated by the work of his distant Neapolitan colleague. The result is a real firework, lit and aimed by ten fingers which are as intelligent as they are fiendish – this artist is absolutely one to watch. – François Hudry
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François Lazarevitch, Justin Taylor – C. P. E. Bach: Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:52 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
With these sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, François Lazarevitch continues the exploration of the jewels of the flute and recorder repertory he has embarked on with Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien or as a soloist with recordings of music by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi and van Eyck. François Lazarevitch and Justin Taylor now bring their sensitivity and virtuosity to bear on the sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.
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Eva Zaïcik, Justin Taylor and Le Consort – Venez chère ombre (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:20 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, who has signed up with Alpha for several recordings, is one of the most prominent vocal artists of her generation. She was chosen as ‘Révélation lyrique’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2018, and elected the same year a Laureate of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Competition. She has participated in the “Jardin des Voix” of les Arts Florissants under William Christie, also regularly collaborates with Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre – but her constant accompanist is the harpsichordist Justin Taylor. Together with two other musician graduates, the violinists Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Sophie de Bardonnèche and the gamba player Louise Pierrard, they have founded Le Consort, to explore both sacred and secular works by composers such as Charpentier, Campra and Clérambault. For this recording they are joined by the flautist Anna Besson and gamba player Lucile Boulanger, both well-known to the Alpha label, and Thibault Roussel (theorbo). This recording is devoted to the Cantatas of Lefebvre, Montéclair, Clérambault and Courbois, more than half of which have never previously been recorded. The cantata inspired non-operatic composers to play out the fashionable narratives of the day on a reduced scale, and in the intimate surroundings of the salons. It is a subtle genre and a vivid depiction of the characters.
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Justin Taylor, Théotime Langlois de Swarte – Les frères Francœur (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:27 minutes | 2,43 GB | Genre: Classical
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Violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and harpsichordist Justin Taylor, two of the most promising virtuosos of the new generation and founder members of the ensemble Le Consort, now present a duo album that pays tribute to a great eighteenth-century dynasty of musicians, the violinists and composers of the Francoeur family.
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Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Taylor & Axel Kober – Poulenc, Schreker & Zimmermann: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:46 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
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The French composer Francis Poulenc wrote his Concert champêtre for harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. In doing so, he made a contribution to the renaissance of this historic keyboard instrument, having learned to play on a modern version made by the French builder Pleyel. The arrangement of the work is highly original. On the one hand, it is extremely contemporary. On the other hand, the piece is in the style of French Baroque harpsichordists and its most important representatives Francois Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau. The main instrumental work of the opera composer Franz Schreker not only begs a comparison to Arnold Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony, but also fulfils the principle developed by Franz Liszt of melding various types of movements into a large one-movement form. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Un “petit rien” was taken from his own music for a radio drama and links the title to a ballet composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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