Victor Julien-Laferrière, Orchestre National de France and Kristiina Poska – Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain – Dusapin: Outscape (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:37 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Classical
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Victor Julien-Laferrière, winner in 2017 of the first Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium dedicated to the cello, presents here two French works for cello and orchestra: Outscape by Pascal Dusapin: “The title itself carries the musical project (…) a word rich in meaning that indicates a variety of meanings from the most common to the most philosophical. Outscape is the way or opportunity to escape, to invent a path of one’s own. I liked this word because it is basically like a summary of the history of my work.” Alongside this work composed in 2015 and here recorded in its world premiere (conducted by Kristiina Poska), the French cellist, the Orchestre National de France, this time conducted by David Robertson, celebrate Henri Dutilleux (who died just 10 years ago, on 22 May 2013), with his famous concerto, whose title is taken from a poem in Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal, La Chevelure: ” A whole far-away world, absent, almost defunct”…
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Flanders Symphony Orchestra & Kristiina Poska – Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 7 (Complete Symphonies, Vol. 1) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:57 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Classical
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Beethoven’s nine symphonies are not only the most famous in the whole of music history, they are the pillars of our canon of western symphonic music. Although Beethoven was born 250 years ago, his symphonies have not lost any of their relevance, and even contemporary composers still measure themselves against this musical giant.
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Tanguy de Williencourt, Flanders Symphony Orchestra & Kristiina Poska – César Franck: Djinns, Variations symphoniques, triptyques pour piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:35 minutes | 1002 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
This album is a well-thought-out program devoted to Romantic composer César Franck, who we don’t hear enough. The two piano solos, the Prélude, choral et fugue (1884) and the Prelude, Aria and Finale (1886-1887), find Franck favoring the tripartite form he loved, revealing a superbly expressive composer for the piano (he was an organist by profession). Tanguy de Williencourt gets under their skin and plays with poetry (the Choral is lovely) and real sweep. Joined by orchestra for the “Symphonic Variations,” he spreads his wings and gives a very impressive performance, while the slightly spooky “Les Djinns” is full of atmosphere.
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