Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen, Maitrise De Radio France – J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen, Maitrise De Radio France - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen, Maitrise De Radio France – J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:41:27 minutes | 3,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Dès le chœur d’entrée, Raphaël Pichon et son ensemble Pygmalion seront sensibles à la nuance, emplissant leur geste de couleurs et d’attentions finalement peu courantes dans ce moment le plus souvent marqué par l’ampleur et la densité du son. Les inflexions pianissimos, le soudain allégement des textures, le ton général chambriste placent cette Passion, devenue a posteriori le temple et sommet de l’expression dramatique religieuse du XVIIIe siècle, ailleurs. Bach y est ici le cousin direct d’un Georg Philipp Telemann dont les propres Passions présentent des effectifs plus restreints et parfois plus variés en terme d’instrumentarium. Elle s’inscrit aussi dans les perspectives doloristes des Membra Jesu nostri de Dietrich Buxtehude.
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Maitrise de Radio France – Noel eternel (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Maitrise de Radio France – Noel eternel (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 26:49 minutes | 267 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Ever since that first angelic night, Christmas has been celebrated in song. In the baroque period, many composers such as Charpentier have composed original masterpieces based on simple folk tunes. Here in a special double album edition are baroque carols from the choir of La Maîtrise de Radio France, with Les Musiciens de Saint Julien, as well as the best-known French Christmas carols (Les anges dans nos campagnes, Venez divin messie…) from the Maîtrises of Radio France and Notre-Dame de Paris. The two internationally renowned children’s choirs combine to celebrate the Nativity and share with us these timeless songs.

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Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Maîtrise de Radio France, Mikko Franck – Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Maîtrise de Radio France, Mikko Franck - Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Maîtrise de Radio France, Mikko Franck – Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:52 minutes | 636 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with Alpha Classics and here invite the Maîtrise and Chœur de Radio France to join them in a Debussy programme. This recording couples La Damoiselle élue, a work described by the composer as a “little oratorio in a mystical and somewhat pagan vein”, the Nocturnes for orchestra, composed between 1897 and 1899, and the Symphonic Fragments from Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien fashioned by André Caplet less than a year after the work’s first performance, and which ensured it would not be forgotten by posterity.
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