![Forestare – Douze guitares à Paris (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/31/me3qgwve7hwgb_600.md.jpg)
Forestare – Douze guitares à Paris (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
One of the most original groups to emerge on the Canadian music scene, Forestare guitar ensemble returns with Douze guitares Paris, a tribute to French music that is as unique as the ensemble’s boundary-pushing vision. Works by Impressionist masters Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel share the program with compositions by contemporary guitarists Roland Dyens and Arnaud Dumond.Debussy and Ravel introduced many of the compositional elements still used by guitar composers today: timbres, textures, and wholetone scales are a perfect fit with the instrument’s poetic qualities.
![Ensemble ArtChoral – Art choral vol. 5: Romantique (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/21/t0qlcxsxid10b_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble ArtChoral – Art choral vol. 5: Romantique (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
ATMA Classique, Ensemble ArtChoral and Mécénat Musica are proud to present Art choral, Vol. 5: Romantique with Ensemble ArtChoral under the direction of Matthias Maute. Featuring choral music from the Romantic era by Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Verdi, Brahms, Meyerbeer, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, and Fauré. This album is the fourth release from our ART CHORAL series.
![Ensemble ArtChoral, Matthias Maute, Ilya Poletaev – Art choral Vol. 4: Classique (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/08/05/dqs903hic8rgb_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble ArtChoral, Matthias Maute, Ilya Poletaev – Art choral Vol. 4: Classique (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
ATMA Classique, the ArtChoral Ensemble and Mécénat Musica are proud to present Art Choral, Vol. 4: Classical with the ArtChoral Ensemble under the direction of Matthias Maute. This ensemble offers choral music from the classical era by Mozart, Haydn, Bierey and Gasparini. This album is the fourth in our CHORAL ART series. The vocal ensemble is accompanied by Ilya Poletaev on the fortepiano.
![Ensemble Vocal Arts-Québec – Art Choral Vol 7: Noël (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/11/s2u6898slyehb_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Vocal Arts-Québec – Art Choral Vol 7: Noël (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
ATMA Classique is proud to collaborate with Ensemble vocal Arts:Quebec and Mecenat Musica on ART CHORAL, a unique and ambitious project surveying the history of choral singing over six centuries, from the Renaissance to the present day. Consisting of 11 volumes, the series will roll out over the next three years and will feature works by 50 composers from the 16th to the 21st centuries, as well as 11 webcast concerts and 120 videos.
![Denis Plante – Suite Tango (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/09/oh8pwtjqqf0ga_600.md.jpg)
Denis Plante – Suite Tango (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
ATMA Classique is proud to present Suite Tango, a new album by two exceptional artists: Stéphane Tétreault, cello, and Denis Plante, bandoneon. These two virtuosi have joined forces to perform a collection of tunes that are astonishing in their rhythmic diversity and passionate, driving sensuality. With Suite Tango, whose form is inspired by the unaccompanied cello suites by J. S. Bach, Denis Plante creates a singular world in which the tango becomes more posh while classical music becomes more playful.
![Dominique Côté – Amour et Fantaisie: Les mélodies de Lionel Daunais (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/03/09/y8bxcaf0ct17b_600.md.jpg)
Dominique Côté – Amour et Fantaisie: Les mélodies de Lionel Daunais (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
Baritone Dominique Côté created the album Amour et Fantaisie: Mélodies de Lionel Daunais in the form of a portrait, in order to pay tribute to this unique artist in the Canadian musical landscape. He has been both recognized and celebrated as an author, composer, performer, director, artistic director and radio host. Daunais’ music is catchy, with influences from French melodies and songs, sometimes even with jazzy overtones. A man of the theater, he managed to create complete characters and scenarios in the space of a song.
![David Jalbert – Prokofiev Piano Sonatas (Vol. I) (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/08/vig50wh8aj8xb_600.md.jpg)
David Jalbert – Prokofiev Piano Sonatas (Vol. I) (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
For his latest ATMA Classique recording project, pianist David Jalbert tackles the complete cycle of Prokofiev’s piano sonata; this ambitious undertaking will be released in three separate volumes starting in September 2021. The first volume features four piano sonatas from Prokofiev’s Russian period, which ended in 1918 with his departure for America. These are paired with four short pieces for piano, including the famous Suggestion diabolique (Diabolic suggestion).
![Ariane Brisson, Olivier Hébert-Bouchard – Mythes (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/24/o5k6o2l4okota_600.md.jpg)
Ariane Brisson, Olivier Hébert-Bouchard – Mythes (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
Ariane Brisson, flautist, and Olivier Hebert-Bouchard, pianist, present Mythes, an album of transcriptions of works by Claude Debussy, Leo Janacek, Maurice Ravel, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Karol Szymanowski. Inspired by the magical, mythical world of sprites and fairies, the program includes Debussy’s Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune in an arrangement by Gustave Samazeuilh; Janacek’s Pohadka (A Fairy Tale); and Ravel’s Sonatine pour piano in transcriptions by Ariane Brisson; along with Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending, and Szymanowski’s Mythes for violin and piano, Op. 30 both transcribed by Ariane Brisson.
![Arion Orchestre Baroque, Mathieu Lussier – Les soupers du roy (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/15/g2a3kwa17zbba_600.md.jpg)
Arion Orchestre Baroque, Mathieu Lussier – Les soupers du roy (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Arion Baroque Orchestra in large formation under the direction of Mathieu Lussier interprets the great orchestral pages of the music that accompanied the king’s suppers throughout the Enlightenment.
A brilliant, virtuoso and colorful repertoire, a festive concert full of panache with sumptuous musical dishes!
![Antonio Figueroa – Canciones de mi abuelito (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/11/zerhttb4jaxxc_600.md.jpg)
Antonio Figueroa – Canciones de mi abuelito (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Canciones de mi abuelito is deeply personal musical memoire, as told through the art of song by tenor Antonio Figueroa. Accompanied by La Familia Figueroa, a Mariachi band, the classically-trained Figueroa invites listeners to join him in paying homage to the voices and musical traditions that nurtured his childhood and inspired his path.
![Antoine Malette-Chenier – Consolations (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/04/uho1vlwqi15pc_600.md.jpg)
Antoine Malette-Chenier – Consolations (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
The desire to touch souls and hearts has always been central to harpist Antoine Malette-Chénier‘s artistic practice. This, his first solo disc project, calls on the enormous suggestive power of Romantic music in an intimate recital conducive to communion and the sharing of emotions.
![Annie Gadbois, Marie-Claude Roy, Mélanie Vaugeois – Albertine en cinq temps – L’opéra (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/04/myu3gxt487yua_600.md.jpg)
Annie Gadbois, Marie-Claude Roy, Mélanie Vaugeois – Albertine en cinq temps – L’opéra (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Productions du 10 avril and ATMA Classique are proud to present the album Albertine en cinq temps – L’opéra, with music by Catherine Major and libretto by Collectif de la lune rouge, based on the eponymous play by Michel Tremblay.
![Anne Thivierge, Mélisande Corriveau, Eric Milnes – Tendres échos (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/01/yolpssfme8aac_600.md.jpg)
Anne Thivierge, Mélisande Corriveau, Eric Milnes – Tendres échos (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
“The flute speaks, it touches, it dazzles as if it had been revealed to mankind on a glorious day of creation.” – Raymond Meylan, La flûte. Inspired by the French repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, flutist Anne Thivierge has chosen to highlight works for flute and continuo by François Couperin, Michel Blavet, Marin Marais, and Jean-Marie Leclair. Gambist Mélisande Corriveau and harpsichordist Eric Milnes accompany her on this French Baroque journey.
![Aaron Tan – De la lumière aux étoiles (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/10/11/tl185idti7kvc_600.md.jpg)
Aaron Tan – De la lumière aux étoiles (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
First prize winner of the CIOC (Canadian International Organ Competition 2021), Aaron Tan is the only person who, in addition to having won the CIOC in 2021, was among the winners of two other major organ competitions in North America: the CRCO National Organ Competition and the AGO National Competition for Young Artists (NYACOP).
For his debut album, the CIOC First Prize winner chose works by Fernando Germani, Percy Whitlock, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Jeanne Demessieux, Rachel Laurin, Henri Duparc (in a transcription by Aaron Tan) and Louis Vierne, performed on the Casavant Opus 796 organ at Our Lady Immaculate Basilica in Guelph, Ontario.