Ophelie Gaillard

Ophélie Gaillard – Dreams (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:45 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Classical
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Craig Leon, who created the transcriptions for Joshua Bell on his Sony Classics release entitled Romance of the Violin, now arranges transcriptions for the cellist Ophelie Gaillard on the new Aparte label. His arrangements has given Gaillard the opportunity to revive the long standing tradition of cellists, from Piatigorsky to Casals, who have played crowd-pleasing transcriptions of great works. Accompanied by the rich sound of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, she weaves an elegant tapestry of favorite classics.

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Ophélie Gaillard – Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Stabat Mater & Quintet (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:42 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Classical
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Cellist Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella Orchestra focus on Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and first virtuoso cellist in history. Born in the Tuscany, Boccherini then went to the Court of Prussa and Spain. His musical education looks like a journey around Europe, as it used to be. Long eclipsed by the violin, star of the string instruments, the cello slowly fit in the eighteenth century repertoire thanks to composers who played the instrument themselves. The now famous Suites of Johan Sebastian Bach are the first master pieces composed for the cello. Then Luigi Boccherini strengthened its place in the musical creation, thus becoming to cello what Vivaldi was to the violin one generation earlier. With rhythms of dance from Andalusia and melodies dug along the streets of Madrid, Boccherini draws with notes his adopted country such as his contemporary Francisco Goya did with colours. This double album explores all the genres (concertos, sonatas, symphonies) and invites the gorgeous Sandrine Piau to perform Boccherini’s poignant Stabat Mater for string quintet and solo soprano.

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Ophélie Gaillard – Ophélie Gaillard : Bach : Suites pour violoncelle seul BWV 1007-1012 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:16:56 minutes | 2,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Bach Cello Suites are an iconic monument of the literature with which any serious cellist must grapple. Performances can vary from the metronomically precise just-play-the-notes approach to the other extreme in which a player’s idiosyncratic interpretations are so pronounced that they become the center of attention rather than Bach’s sublime music. This 2010 version is French cellist Ophélie Gaillard’s second recording of the suites, the first made a decade earlier when she was in her mid-twenties.

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Ophélie Gaillard – Alvorada (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:05 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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ALVORADA or the invitation to the voyage of cellist Ophélie Gaillard and her magical cello, a musical tour from Spain to Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Cuba) featuring, in particular, the composers Villa-Lobos, Granados, Piazzolla and Jobim.

In an exceptional mixture of classical pieces and arrangements of the greatest themes of this intense music, the cello sings with the bandoneon, dances with the piano, guitar or percussion, and abandons itself in amorous intimacy with the voices.

ALVORADA immerses us in a sound universe where the feverish energy of the rhythms of this Hispanic and South-American music entrances us and from which a sensual nostalgia responds to a dizzying tango. All the senses are aroused when hearing these spellbinding songs and rhythms.
The colour of the sun, from dawn to dusk, is found in the clever alternation of these enchanting, universal pieces.
All the exceptional musicians (Sabine Devieilhe, Toquinho, Sandra Rumolino, Juanjo Mosalini, Rudi Flores, Emmanuel Rossfelder, Gabriel Sivak…) participating in the ALVORADA voyage hypnotize and fascinate us, allowing us to accompany them at every instant in the progression of this dream proposed by OPHÉLIE GAILLARD.

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