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Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Chœur de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo & Kazuki Yamada – Camille Saint-Saëns: Déjanire (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:44:04 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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‘It will be a strange score: people will either not like it at all, or will like it enormously’, prophesied Camille Saint-Saëns a few days before the premiere of Déjanire. The opera, first performed in Monte Carlo on 14 March 1911, is based on incidental music written in 1898 for the Béziers Arena. Fascinated by the subject, the composer soon wanted to give it a second, more ambitious life. He therefore conceived a mythological epic that inspired ‘powerfully evocative music’, according to Gabriel Fauré, who was struck by the impact of the choral writing. Yet the love drama that rends the heroine’s heart engenders wildly romantic duets and culminates in the public immolation of Hercules, set ablaze by the poisoned tunic offered to him by the fallen queen. This new Déjanire received high praise from the critics, who flocked to Monaco to see it. But the modernist path that French opera was taking at the time did not allow the work to survive the upheavals of the First World War. It would have been a shame to prolong this unjustified ostracism any longer.
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Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Transylvania State Choir, Marek Janowski – Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:11:02 minutes | 4,53 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
Maestro Marek Janowski, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir present Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (1859), together with a stellar cast, headed by Freddie De Tommaso (Riccardo), Lester Lynch (Renato) and Saioa Hernández (Amelia). Un ballo in maschera is Verdi’s tragicomic masterpiece, in which the composer skilfully switches gears between the light and tragic, as well as between his earlier and more mature style. As such, it is both an entertaining and highly sophisticated work. The three main soloists are all seasoned Verdi interpreters, while Janowski approaches this ingenuous score with his eye for symphonic architecture, resulting in a performance that is lively and balanced. The international cast of this recording is completed by Elisabeth Kulman (Ulrica), Annika Gerhards (Oscar), Kevin Short (Samuel), Adam Lau (Tom), Jean-Luc Ballestra (Silvano), and Samy Camps (Giudice/Servo).
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Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Pascal Rophé, Marc Coppey – Mantovani – Symphonie No. 1, Abstract (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:44 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Classical
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Symphonie n°1, L’Idée Fixe, pour orchestre, Abstract pour orchestre avec violoncelle principal. L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo sous la direction du chef français Pascal Rophé livre deux œuvres nouvelles de Bruno Mantovani. Dans ses créations orchestrales (plus d’une vingtaine de partitions), le compositeur français avait déjà exploré de nombreuses possibilités expressives avant d’aborder le genre de la symphonie. Avec sa Symphonie n° 1, l’idée fixe (2015) – une référence à l’ « idée fixe » de la Symphonie fantastique de Berlioz – il questionne un procédé d’écriture ancestral (celui du retour d’une mélodie) pour en révéler toute sa modernité. Dans Abstract (2017), il renoue avec l’écriture soliste qui lui est chère, en confrontant le violoncelle (Marc Coppey) à l’ensemble de l’orchestre. Cette partition conçue pour le ballet chorégraphié par Jean-Christophe Maillot en avril 2018, pose avec élégance la possibilité d’une rencontre tangible entre la danse, les solistes instrumentistes et l’orchestre. Subsiste de cette dramaturgie, une musique jaillissante, sans cesse renouvelée et variée : « Bien qu’invisible et insaisissable, écrit le compositeur, ma musique est toujours liée à une perception du monde qui génère des émotions et donc du mouvement »
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Ophélie Gaillard, James Judd, Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo – Exiles – Bloch & Korngold (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:27 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States, land of freedom, open to the world, a democracy concerned with human rights, attracted emigrants of all origins. Rightly or wrongly, the young nation, in full economic expansion, embodied a land of redemption for the composers brought together by Ophélie Gaillard. After Alvorada, her globe-trotting cello leads us in the footsteps of Bloch, Korngold, Prokofiev, Chava Alberstein and Giora Feidmann, singing their exile, whether suffered or deliberately chosen. She makes us vibrate to the sound of a film score (Korngold’s Concerto), a prayer (From Jewish Life), an Hebraic narrative (Schelomo), a lullaby, a wedding dance… The spirit of celebration, tenderness, religious meditation: so many facets of daily life and the culture of several generations of Jewish immigrants, related by Ophélie Gaillard’s humanistic bow.
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