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Paul Meyer, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne – Spohr: The Forgotten Master (The 4 Concertos for Clarinet) (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:32:04 minutes | 849 MB | Genre: Classical
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We are only just beginning to rediscover the works of Louis Spohr (1784-1859), who was not only a composer, but also a virtuoso violinist, possibly the greatest conductor of his time, and a renowned teacher – a man who played a leading role in musical life in Germany in the nineteenth century. His works – almost three hundred, covering many genres – bear the mark of Viennese Classicism, but his harmonic research announces the advent of the Romantic period.
Ten or so of his compositions require the clarinet, including four concertos, belonging to two different periods in his life. Wishing to be as faithful as possible to the original works for this recording on the Alpha label, the clarinettist and conductor Paul Meyer approached the Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft in Kassel, which possesses the original manuscripts of the Fourth Concerto, the sketches for nos. 3 and 4, and copies of the manuscripts of nos. 1 to 3.
This magnificent performance by Paul Meyer, soloist and conductor, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, gives us an opportunity to discover (or rediscover) these very fine works.
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Paul Meyer – Tango (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:52 minutes | 990 MB | Genre: Classical
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With new album ‘Tango’, accordionist Pascal Contet steps off the beaten track to explore the repertoire of those who inspired the great Piazzolla.
He pays homage to the finest tango dances with a set of contemporary arrangements, rounding things off with two original works, ‘Stras Medianoche’ and ‘Valentino Suite’.
In partnership with Paul Meyer, Contet explores how the tango has been reinvented over time – music which has been described as a “sad thought that is danced.”
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Paul Meyer – Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1, 6 & 8 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 51:32 minutes | 875 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Paul Meyer celebrates the enchanting preciousness of the Mannheim School with immense brilliance and temperament,” wrote FonoForum in 2019 on the release of the first CD of clarinet concerto recordings by Carl Stamitz. Now Vol. 2 has been released with Concertos 1, 6 and 8 (numbered after Friedrich Carl Kaiser) and they also prove to be immensely virtuosic and effective. All the concertos are interpreted by Paul Meyer, who is not only one of the outstanding and best-known clarinetists in the world, he also shows his conducting qualities here. Concerto No. 1 is one of the best known and most popular works by Stamitz. It fascinates with its virtuosic arrangement through extreme interval leaps and the lively, dance-like elements. Similar in the eighth concerto are the range, the signal motives in the corner movements, the syncopations to the cadenza, and the virtuosic shaping. Stamitz again demonstrates the wide range of technical and compositional possibilities.
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Paul Meyer, Pascal Contet – Fantaisies lyriques (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:00 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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A traveling duo, a friendship and a sacred pair of fresh air! Paul Meyer, clarinet recognized at the top of the world rankings on this instrument, and Pascal Contet, herald of contemporary accordion, exploring together the unexpected paths of opera fantasies and the classical repertoire.
Two artists at the top of their art and accomplices, offering a virtuoso program, reinvented and festive, in which the accordion Contet offers an original setting for clarinet Meyer, who navigates between pride lied and nuances of a paw Velvet … The two wind instruments are expressed in the same breath for a high end result in his musical choices, the quality of transcriptions, as in the excellence of the interpretation.
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Paul Meyer, Magali Mosnier, Pierre Génisson, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo – Crystal Palace (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:51 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Classical
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Paul Meyer is one of France’s leading clarinetists, with a strong commitment to both contemporary music and neglected historical repertory. Meyer is also in demand as a chamber player. Meyer was born in Mulhouse, France, on March 5, 1965. He studied clarinet as a child and then entered the Mulhouse Conservatory. Showing talent there, he made his debut with the Symphony Orchestra of the Rhine at age 13 and then moved on to the Paris Conservatory the following year.
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Eric Le Sage, François Salque, Paul Meyer – Gabriel Fauré – 1: Œuvres pour violoncelle & piano – Trio (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:13:58 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the successful edition of Schumann’s complete works, Eric Le Sage and Alpha have decided to produce a new series of 5 CD’s dedicated to Gabriel Fauré’s complete works for chamber music with piano. This series in general and its first volume in particular, constitute a milestone in Alpha’s development as they are the first of a line devoted to music from the post-Mozart period. Each volume will be placed in the literary context of the time in which it was created through fragments taken from novels, poems or the correspondence of artists. Eric Le Sage will work on this series together with François Salque with whom he shares a great musical affinity. Sound engineer Jean-Marc Laisné (who recorded the integral works of Schumann) will record the pieces in the auditorium of Grenoble, a hall famous for its acoustics. Through the combination of their talents, these men will breathe new life into these well known pieces.
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Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser, Eric Le Sage – Vienne 1900 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:55:02 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese composers of the early twentieth century. The most famous and innovative of these are represented: Schoenberg with his Kammersymphonie no.1, Mahler with two lieder transcribed for flute and piano, Zemlinsky’s Clarinet Trio and several pieces by Berg. A programme that encapsulates both the exhaustion of a bygone Romantic age and the avant-garde promises of a modern world still to be built.
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Éric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, Claudio Bohórquez – Beethoven: Trios for Clarinet, Cello & Piano (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:11 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Classical
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With this new series entitled ‘Salon de musique’, Alpha presents recordings made by artists who have enlivened the Festival of Salon de Provence for some years now: the pianist Eric le Sage, who has made many recordings for Alpha, the clarinettist Paul Meyer etc… with cellist Claudio Bohórquez, they have now put two Beethoven trios on disc. By 1798, the year Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Trio for piano, clarinet and cello op.11, he was already well-known in Vienna as a remarkable improviser and an ambitious young composer. the piece was clearly aimed at the enlightened aristocracy, as well as competent musical amateurs. This did not prevent the critics, though universally positive, from judging the score to be over-complex in places. Dedicated to the Empress Marie-Theresa of Austria, the Septet was published in 1802 by Hofmeister, and on being well-received it was then rearranged for various combinations. Beethoven himself made a version for clarinet, cello and piano, op.38 in E Flat major – the one recorded here.
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