Liège Royal Philharmonic and Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Lalo: Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Liège Royal Philharmonic and Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Lalo: Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:08:27 minutes | 3,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Édouard Lalo made his mark on French music with his opera Le Roi dYs, but his instrumental output also has considerable historical importance, with its resolutely innovative aims for its time. More specifically, his concertante music rewards the attentive ear with a brilliant, skilfully constructed style, studded with fresh rhythmic and harmonic inventions that renew the melodic and orchestral language of the genre. Under the direction of Jean-Jacques Kantorow, himself a violinist and extremely familiar with this repertory, the Liège Royal Philharmonic places itself at the service of the virtuoso fingers of six young soloists from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel: this anthology provides an opportunity, notably, to renew acquaintance with the violinist Lorenzo Gatto who recently released a recording of the Beethoven Concerto in the famous Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra. Works such as the powerful Cello Concerto, the elegant Piano Concerto, the folk-influenced Concerto russe and Fantaisie norvégienne, and the sparkling Introduction et Scherzo on themes from Namouna complete this set, which highlights both the work of the prestigious and internationally renowned Belgian nursery for young talent, recently renovated, and a repertory championed by the Palazzetto Bru Zane, which contributed to the realisation of the project.

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Soloists of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Liège Royal Philharmonic, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Lalo: Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Soloists of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Liège Royal Philharmonic, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Lalo: Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:08:27 minutes | 3,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Édouard Lalo made his mark on French music with his opera Le Roi dYs, but his instrumental output also has considerable historical importance, with its resolutely innovative aims for its time. More specifically, his concertante music rewards the attentive ear with a brilliant, skilfully constructed style, studded with fresh rhythmic and harmonic inventions that renew the melodic and orchestral language of the genre. Under the direction of Jean-Jacques Kantorow, himself a violinist and extremely familiar with this repertory, the Liège Royal Philharmonic places itself at the service of the virtuoso fingers of six young soloists from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel: this anthology provides an opportunity, notably, to renew acquaintance with the violinist Lorenzo Gatto who recently released a recording of the Beethoven Concerto in the famous Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra. Works such as the powerful Cello Concerto, the elegant Piano Concerto, the folk-influenced Concerto russe and Fantaisie norvégienne, and the sparkling Introduction et Scherzo on themes from Namouna complete this set, which highlights both the work of the prestigious and internationally renowned Belgian nursery for young talent, recently renovated, and a repertory championed by the Palazzetto Bru Zane, which contributed to the realisation of the project.

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Adrien La Marca, Liège Royal Philharmonic & Christian Arming – Walton, Grisi & Prokofiev: Heroes (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Adrien La Marca, Liège Royal Philharmonic & Christian Arming – Walton, Grisi & Prokofiev: Heroes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:32 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta

Three large-scale works for viola and orchestra feature on the new recording by violist Adrien La Marca with the Liège Royal Philharmonic. Musically, a programme must tell a story: here the viola becomes the central hero of each work, in an almost cinematographic adventure. A hero who roams from the heart of Russian ballet music with Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, through the lyricism of interwar English music with Walton’s Viola Concerto, to music of today by the Belgian composer Gwenaël Mario Grisi, whose On the Reel is literally ‘scripted’, written directly from analysis of film scenarios. Epic sweep, passions, contrasts . . . Everything you might expect from a great adventure movie is there in this music. Moments of powerful lyricism, love and tenderness, inner struggles, combats or doubts.

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