Julien Martineau, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Wilson Ng – O sole mio: Mandolin Concertos & Songs (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Julien Martineau, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Wilson Ng – O sole mio: Mandolin Concertos & Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:33 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve

Naïve Records has announced a September 29 release for Julien Martineau’s new recording, O sole mio: Mandolin Concertos & Songs. On the project Martineau is joined by the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse conducted by Wilson Ng. Guests performers include Florian Sempey, Anna Schivazappa, Yann Dubost, Philippe Mouratoglou and Eric Franceries.

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Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse & Tugan Sokhiev – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse & Tugan Sokhiev – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:25 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The first album of our new collaboration with ONTC, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, and their Ossetian musical director, Tugan Sokhiev, features Shostakovich’s 8th symphony: an “opera for the Orchestra” composed with an unheard dramatic power. ONTC world famous for their work on French repertoire, is opening up to new horizons under the influence of their Ossetian chief conductor, Tugan Sokhiev. The 15 symphonies of the soviet composer are a major common theme throughout the seasons for the ONTC & Tugan Sokhiev. Tugan Sokhiev was one of the lasts students of the conductor and excellent pedagogue, Ilya Musin, who was one of the first conductors to conduct Symphony n° 7 « Leningrad » ( Ilya Musin also trained a generation of Russian chefs like Valery Gergiev, Teodor Currentzis, Yuri Terminakov).

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Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse & Leo Hussain – Camille Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse & Leo Hussain – Camille Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:56 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bru Zane

That globetrotting composer Camille Saint-Sa”ens wrote La Princesse jaune in 1872, exemplifying the current craze for all things Japanese. Korn’elis, played by the tenor Mathias Vidal, dreams only of the Land of the Rising Sun. Under the influence of a hallucinogenic potion, he becomes infatuated with Ming, a fantasy princess. His cousin L’ena – the soprano Judith van Wanroij – despairs of this passion and does not dare to confess her own feelings to Korn’elis, who eventually comes to his senses.

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Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, Op. 93 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, Op. 93 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:39 minutes | 922 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Continuing a Shostakovich series launched in 2020, Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Symphony No 10, a tension-ridden work composed shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Sokhiev, previously Music Director of the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse from 2008 to 2022, trained with a contemporary and classmate of Shostakovich, the influential St Petersburg-based teacher Ilya Musin (1903-99).

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