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Isabelle Faust, François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles – Stravinsky: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:47 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Classical
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Isabelle Faust and François-Xavier Roth explore here extremely contrasting facets of Stravinsky’s output for violin. From the Concerto to the Pastorale, the composer plays with codes and colours, sketching extraordinarily vivid soundscapes. Once again, the musicians of Les Siècles have succeeded in rediscovering the works’ original dynamic by using period instruments – and that changes everything!
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François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles – Les nuits de Paris (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:21 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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The dance permeated every layer of Romantic society. From popular dance halls to courtly salons, people showed their public face, enjoyed themselves and met one another in waltz time or to the rhythms of the quadrille or the polka. At the same time, ballet gained unprecedented fame on the stage of the Paris Opéra. The music that accompanied this frantic round in France has long been neglected, whereas the Viennese have never ceased to celebrate their waltzes. Under the expert baton of François-Xavier Roth, the orchestra Les Siècles has set out to rediscover this French repertory using historical instruments. Their album explores the output of both established composers – Camille Saint-Saëns, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet – and their colleagues who specialised in Terpsichorean entertainment, including Philippe Musard, Isaac Strauss, Émile Waldteufel and Hervé.
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Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles & Mathieu Romano – Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919) – Ravel: Bolero (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:52 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Classical
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Stravinsky’s Les Noces went through many metamorphoses. The composer worked on the orchestration of this piece for some ten years, and produced three versions, all of which we have chosen to perform.
Discover here the more intimate 1919 version which we perform with the Dominique Brun dance company. This version, which was set aside because of the technical difficulties posed by the need to synchronise live musicians and mechanical instruments, was nonetheless considered the composer’s favorite, because the best adapted to the prosody and popular spirit of the work. This work is performed with an arrangement of Ravel’s Boléro for five instrumentalists and a 16 singers.
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François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles – Stravinsky: Ballets Russes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:09:05 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Paris, early twentieth century: in the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionised the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with its insanely innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamised the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it to literally unheard-of places. Among the very first musicians to perform these works on the instruments that witnessed their birth, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles inaugurated a far-reaching rediscovery of these seminal pieces, giving today’s listeners an opportunity to appreciate to the full their audacity and their harsh, savage power.
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Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – David: Christophe Colomb & Musique de chambre, symphonique et sacrée (Portraits, Vol. 4) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:54:15 minutes | 2,19 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Each volume in the ‘Portraits’ series is devoted to a French composer who has now largely been forgotten. With performances by many talented artists, it presents a panorama of his works. The ‘Portrait’ of Félicien David aims to complement the discography already available with world premiere recordings of the composer’s works. Among these are a glimpse of his orchestral output, with the Symphony no. 3 and the Overture to his opéra-comique La Perle du Brésil, the work that really launched David on his operatic career. But it is above all Christophe Colomb (1847) that deserves mention, for this ode-symphonie with speaker was an ambitious follow-up to the success of Le Désert, performed at the Théâtre-Italien some years earlier. Nevertheless, this anthology does not forget that Félicien David was also a figure of the salons, admired for his intimate music and especially his songs. The programme therefore offers a chance to discover excerpts from the Mélodies orientales for solo piano, a selection of romances in the style of the 1840s, and the very rare early motets for chorus in varied scorings. The culmination of this Portrait is the restoration of Le Jugement dernier, which was intended as the concluding apotheosis of the opera Herculanum, but was finally deleted and has never been published until today. – Palazzetto Bru Zane / Ediciones Singulares
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François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr, Alexandre Duhamel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Jean Teitgen, Chœur de l’Opéra de Lille – Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:37:54 minutes | 2,59 GB | Genre: Classical
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Chief conductor of Les Siècles symphony orchestra, François-Xavier Roth has been revisiting French music from the beginning of the 20th century for several years now, taking care to honour both the original instruments and to find melodies that favour even greater clarity of timbre and attack. After his incredible recordings of Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky’s first work (special mention to the superb complete version of L’Oiseau de feu), everyone naturally expected the conductor to perform Pelléas et Mélisande, the opera he conducted at the very beginning of his career which is particularly close to his heart.
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Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – Debussy: La Mer & Première Suite d’Orchestre (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:35 minutes | 835 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Sea is one of Debussy’s most universally admired symphonic works. Lost for more than a century, his First Orchestral Suite was, on the contrary, during this first world recording made by The Centuries in 2013 on period instruments, a discovery! Here it is remastered today. An ideal opportunity to read in a new light the career of a musician who we thought “knew everything”.
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Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano – Fauré: Requiem – Poulenc: Figure Humaine – Debussy: 3 Chansons (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 977 MB | Genre: Classical
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Fauré’s Requiem (‘funeral lullaby’) written for enjoyment, as the composer put it, has a unique place in history. Its soft, simple and modest poetry conveys moments of gentle contemplation and moving expressiveness which are entrusted to both the choir and the two soloists.
With his Ensemble Aedes and the orchestra Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano is committed to render a Requiem faithful to its first performance. We hear thus the score in its original 1893 orchestration, where the organ plays a great role and where Latin is pronounced in the French way as it used to be. The clearest articulation of the Ensemble Aedes then perfectly fits Éluard’s Figure humaine set to music by Francis Poulenc. We have never heard these sublime poems sung with such intelligibility before!
Finally, the three Songs by Debussy elegantly close the album. Here again, the quality and clarity of the voices are stunning. Artistic director and founder of Ensemble Aedes Mathieu Romano has established himself as a magician of voices in a cappella scores and voices ideally melt with the strings of Les Siècles under his baton.
A 100% French cast in a 100% French music disc for a triple rediscovery. Essential!”
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Sabine Devieilhe, Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:45 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Classical
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After a period-instrument reading of the Symphony No. 1 that received unanimous acclaim from the critics, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles return to Mahler. Joined by the luminous voice of Sabine Devieilhe for the famous finale, they offer us their vision of the Fourth Symphony, which in its own way marks the composer’s transition to modernity, and reveal unsuspected colours and instrumental balances. We still have much to learn about the polyphonic transparency possible within Mahler’s big orchestra!
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