Pierre-Yves Hodique – Clairs de lune (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pierre-Yves Hodique – Clairs de lune (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:21 minutes | 989 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Scala Music

The notion of travelling between sounds is certainly at the heart of my interpretative research. The moonlight program, filled with dreamlike light and darkness, seems to me to best illustrate Claude Debussy’s quote: “Music is the silence between the notes”. While this musical voyage features works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Claude Debussy, it also includes little-known piano pieces by Abel Decaux, Joseph Jongen and Georges Enesco, and offers me the opportunity to put into practice a friendship of over twenty years with composer Fabien Touchard, by premiering the concerto for piano and electronics I commissioned from him.

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Thomas Lefort & Pierre-Yves Hodique – Folk (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Thomas Lefort & Pierre-Yves Hodique – Folk (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:49 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

This album is an opportunity to pay tribute to folk music, to the traditional dances and songs that inspire a large part of the violin repertory. Between the end of the Nineteenth Century and the first half of the Twentieth, a number of composers succeeded in transmitting through their music powerful, emotionally charged impressions, resulting from their travels and their encounters with certain musical traditions, traditional melodies, rhythms and specific harmonies.

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Irène Duval, Pierre-Yves Hodique – Poèmes (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Irène Duval, Pierre-Yves Hodique – Poèmes (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:19 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

Francis Poulenc owes his fame to his operatic works (Dialogues des Carmélites, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, La Voix humaine), his treasure-house of mélodies, his concertos and his sacred music, but his output for piano and small ensembles remains relatively little-known. Yet the catalogue of his chamber music comprises more than twenty works, including the Sonata for Violin and Piano composed in the dark years of the war, the only piece for these forces that he did not destroy. It was written in 1942-43 in memory of the Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by the Francoists, and was premiered by an unforgettable duo, the outstanding young violinist Ginette Neveu with the composer at the piano. Poulenc struggled over its composition, refusing to produce, as he said himself, ‘prima donna violin over piano arpeggios’. Which goes to explain its originality, but also, perhaps, its reminiscences of other music, including a few tender borrowings from Tchaikovsky. The sonata unfolds in a sombre, tragic, sometimes sarcastic atmosphere, with moments of violence. The meditative Intermezzo was inspired by the opening line of Las seis cuerdas (The six strings) from Lorca’s Poema del cante jondo: ‘La guitarra / hace llorar a los sueños’ (The guitar / makes dreams weep). …

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