Franck Masquelier, Marc Grauwels – Mozart: Il Mio Tesoro (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Franck Masquelier, Marc Grauwels – Mozart: Il Mio Tesoro (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Marc Grauwels and Franck Masquelier offer us in this album a selection of the most famous arias from Mozart’s operas, arranged for a flute duo. This formation, fashionable since the 18th century, has largely contributed, thanks to a considerable number of arrangements and adaptations, to popularizing the arias of operas which constitute an inexhaustible source for transcribers and arrangers.

Darina Maleeva – Franck : Intégrale pour violon et Piano (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]

Darina Maleeva – Franck : Intégrale pour violon et Piano (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]

While studying the composer’s archives, Darina Maleeva discovered Melancolie, a late work by Cesar Franck. She gave the first performance in Europe, Japan and the United States. Lemoine Editions published the work in her own revision in 2002.This CD also presents two other little-known and fascinating pieces by the young Cesar Franck, as well as a deeply sensitive interpretation of the famous Sonata. Darina Maleeva and Xavier Lecomte de la Bretonnerie present here a unique program of rare and unpublished works by Cesar Franck.

Awek Blues – Symphonic Blues Project (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Awek Blues – Symphonic Blues Project (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

To rediscover the adventurous music of William Russo has a double meaning for me: it is a tribute to Seiji Ozawa and to his open-mindedness when he commissioned them from «Bill»; it is also a way of progressing in a movement of crossing and recognising the different types of music, a trend that has a promising future. I asked Thierry Maillard, a jazzman and connoisseur of Zappa, Bartók and classical orchestras, to compose in the same spirit, sharing the adventure with AWEK, a group immersed in the famous Chicago blues whose records I have always enjoyed. On the road again!

Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds – Bibik: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds – Bibik: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Bibik’s music is a rigorous postcard of the Ukrainian aesthetic landscape of the second half of the 20th century, depicting a broad and powerful Sovietism – which fully recognised him – and also a glow in the dark, where composing was a risk, a humanistic commitment.