![Florentin Ginot – Bach – Biber (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/27/zb4o0wcnark8a_600.md.jpg)
Florentin Ginot – Bach – Biber (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
With this first album for NoMadMusic, double bassist Florentin Ginot displays all his virtuosity in a daring reinterpretation of the violin repertoire of Bach and Biber. More accustomed to the role of continuo, the double bass shines here in a new light, which in turn tinges these works with a roundness and warmth that is typical of the instrument’s basses. Accompanied by Fanny Vicens (keyboard) and Caroline Delume (theorbo and guitar), this opus opens up new perspectives on the double bass repertoire!
![Frédéric Chatoux, Lutxi Nesprias – Paris – Europe (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/27/rwurecxweexab_600.md.jpg)
Frédéric Chatoux, Lutxi Nesprias – Paris – Europe (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
The aim of Paris-Europe is certainly to pay tribute to Paris, the “city of light”, to its cultural attractiveness, but also and above all to its permeability to the cultures of Europe and to the mutual influences with the composers present on its soil during the two centuries explored in this disc. Frédéric Chatoux and Lutxi Nesprias present here transcriptions and original pieces that reflect their curiosity and their desire to illustrate these European cultural interminglings.
![Elodie Soulard – Tchaikovsky: The Seasons (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/09/dczb5zagjv13b_600.md.jpg)
Elodie Soulard – Tchaikovsky: The Seasons (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
The cycle of the seasons has been celebrated many times by composers, from Jean-Baptiste Lully (Ballet of the Seasons) to Alexander Glazunov, not forgetting Antonio Vivaldi and Joseph Haydn. In the 19 th century, composer-pianists such as Carl Czerny and Isaac Albéniz used the seasons as inspiration for keyboard pieces. Others imagined painting a little musical picture for each month of the year. This was the case for Fanny Hensel (the sister of Felix Mendelssohn) with Das Jahr (1841), for the French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan with Les Mois (1872) and for Tchaikovsky with his Seasons, which are undoubtedly the most famous of these musical calendars.
![Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère, Pierre Roullier – Tide (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/x4flr5dc99wac_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble 2e2m, Hélène Fauchère, Pierre Roullier – Tide (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
There is always a good reason to record an album: to conjure up the evanescence of a concert and leave behind a more permanent trace, albeit one that represents only an instant; to draw up a provisional assessment; to make an inventory. For Aurélien Dumont, this could more aptly be described as the inventory of one place, so much is this programme linked to his Roman stay at the Medici Villa in 2017-18. This recording represents the state of play in one place or, better yet, the state linked to one place: a state of receptive creativity worthy of a new work and reworking two prior pieces. Each different in nature – one vocal, one instrumental, one with video ad libitum – they are all nonetheless strikingly homogeneous stylistically. Perhaps this judgement is the imprint of a place which was able to yield an ‘ambulatory state’ in which the composer took on the revised version of Flaques de miettes (2008 & 2018), with its partially open structure. Pierre Roullier and the musicians of 2e2m have chosen to start with the last four of the ten short movements that make up this ensemble piece, then to follow it up immediately with movements one through six. As he loosens the structure, the composer limits the material, emphasising his propensity towards composing from ‘objects.’ These little ‘bricks’ of material also constitute bubbles of potential narrative, which can be activated when related to one another. …
![Ensemble Ouranos – Ligeti, Nielsen & Dvorak: Woodwind Quintets (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/q1mnygrq4ix1b_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Ouranos – Ligeti, Nielsen & Dvorak: Woodwind Quintets (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
In their first album, the Ensemble Ouranos celebrate the wind quintet, bringing a breath of fresh air to the form with a hint of nostalgia. Indeed, the common thread in the works of Ligeti, Nielsen and Dvorak is a strong influence from the folk material of each composer’s native country. Winners of the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon, Ensemble Ouranos brilliantly represent the French school of wind instruments.
![Ensemble Polygones – Camille Pépin: Chamber Music (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/m5v20gj94niob_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Polygones – Camille Pépin: Chamber Music (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Rising star from the young composer’s generation, Camille Pépin chose to record her first album with the artists who have been accompanying her since her debut. She is taken by numerous extra-musical influences: from English literature to Japanese etchings, mythology to astronomy. These disparate elements all converge on travel as their common theme, wanderlust and dreams of elsewhere. A fusion of all these ingredients, Camille Pépin’s music sets itself apart above all through its rhythmic aspect, at once dancing and almost incantatory, presided over by lyricism.
![Enrique Mazzola, Rex Lawson, Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France – Milhaud: La bien-Aimée – Stravinsky: l’Oiseau de feu (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/dqinl990psbdb_600.md.jpg)
Enrique Mazzola, Rex Lawson, Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France – Milhaud: La bien-Aimée – Stravinsky: l’Oiseau de feu (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
After two albums devoted to Italian bel canto and De Falla’s Spain respectively, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France heads to France and invite us to dance with a third collection dedicated to ballet music created at the Paris Opera. Rare and unfairly overlooked, La Bien aimée is a gem of collage technique, Milhaud’s work juxtaposing the music of Schubert and Liszt and arranging it for pianola (player piano) and orchestra. Meanwhile, Stravinsky’s Firebird, that incontrovertible masterpiece, transports us to the enchanting world of Russian fairy tales under Enrique Mazzola’s exalted baton.
![Ensemble Sésame – Ravel: Complete Instrumental Chamber Works (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/01/iho3maeuf1cfc_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Sésame – Ravel: Complete Instrumental Chamber Works (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
A Ravel of all colors by the Sesame Set! Ravel fascinates as much as he questions: absolute genius of music, idealist, he draws relentlessly from his roots, mixing like an alchemist his original accents with dreaminess and exoticism. This album by the Ensemble Sesame, exploring the entirety of his compositions for instrumental chamber music, wants to best reflect his infinite orchestral colors, nuancing flavors sometimes bright and rhythmic, sometimes sweet and spicy.
![Enrique Mazzola, Markus Werba, Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France – Mahler – Bruckner (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/ugz1i2gk7afsb_600.md.jpg)
Enrique Mazzola, Markus Werba, Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France – Mahler – Bruckner (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Mahler and Bruckner both are composers who have designed immense symphonic worlds based on intimate writings. This is the main theme of this album, which is Enrique Mazzola’s fifth album conducting l’Orchestre national d’le-de-France. It unites these two emblematic composers of the Germanic classical repertoire, with Mahler’s magnificent orchestral Lieder (Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), beautifully performed by baritone Markus Werba, and completed by Bruckner’s Vier Orchesterstücke.
![Ensemble Ouranos, Guillaume Vincent – Strauss, Françaix, Poulenc : Woodwind Chamber Music (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/q5k7t56zhxvkb_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Ouranos, Guillaume Vincent – Strauss, Françaix, Poulenc : Woodwind Chamber Music (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
After a critically acclaimed first album, the Ouranos Ensemble returns to the recording studio with pianist Guillaume Vincent.
This mischievous album brings together masterpieces by Strauss, Poulenc and Francaix, and reveals the virtuosity of wind instruments through a thousand musical antics.
A seductive program, carried with mastery by one of the most distinguished ensembles of recent years!
![Douglas Boyd – Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87 (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/30/xirf27vlwgjsc_600.md.jpg)
Douglas Boyd – Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87 (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
“Haydn’s 104 symphonies are all fantastic, original, full of incredible fantasy, and careful work brings out the true radicalism of this writing,” explained Douglas Boyd, a formidable pioneer. Commissioned in 1785 by the Count of Ogny for the prestigious Concert of the Parisian Olympic Lodge, Symphony n° 87 is one of six so-called “Parisian” symphonies that Haydn composed far from Paris, in the Hungarian Palace of Esterháza (which however is proud of a sumptuous French garden). It was there too that he composed Il Mondo della Luna, an opera-bouffe inspired by Goldoni. Later, the Symphonie concertante belongs to the master’s London period and will be celebrated by a dazzled critic from its premiere across the Channel.
![Cédric Tiberghien – Beethoven: Concerto pour piano No. 1 & Symphonie No. 5 (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/09/nos69ffqz1qmb_600.md.jpg)
Cédric Tiberghien – Beethoven: Concerto pour piano No. 1 & Symphonie No. 5 (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
A veritable celebration cocktail, this album has been conceived as a showcase of Beethoven’s orchestral and pianistic genius. Cédric Tiberghien and the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, conducted by Enrique Mazzola, have come together for their first recording after enjoying five years of collaboration on the stage.
![Célimène Daudet – Messe noire (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/09/fcfvy2w1yxwic_600.md.jpg)
Célimène Daudet – Messe noire (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
After the success of her last album, dedicated to Messiaen and Debussy, Célimène Daudet returns to recording with another pairing, this time playing the last works of Scriabin and Liszt. In it, she invites us into an intriguing, enigmatic and almost mystical universe, a sort of final pilgrimage to the limits of piano’s sound possibilities. Built around the themes of night, death and mystery, this recital joins emblematic works such as Scriabin’s “Black Mass” Sonata (No. 9) and Vers la flamme to Liszt’s Lugubre gondola No. 2 and La Notte.
![Case Scaglione – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/06/XWzCU5e.md.jpg)
Case Scaglione – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
With his third symphony, Beethoven offers his contemporaries the most developed and longest score ever composed in this genre in is time. What aspects of this work do you still retain today as the fundamental characteristics of musical romanticism? – This symphony gives us the feeling of experiencing the world as conscious beings. Nothing could be more illustrative of the Romantic Era than that. Before Beethoven music was about creating an esthetic outside of ourselves. From this symphony onward we have the feeling of being the thinker of thoughts and the ones with agency, the idea that art lies in our subjective experience of the world. Through this means of expression we are able to experience music that is reflective of the human experience, its’ joys and sorrows. He doesn’t use many chords or instruments that were not used before him but somehow, we sense the fault lines of history shifting beneath our feet. This power and magnitude are something that remains until this day and that is the true genius. …