Par HILLBORG ANDERS. The music of Anders Hillborg’s virtuosic Tampere Raw for clarinet and piano alternates between two vividly different characters: one slowly flowing texture, composed completely intuitively, and one fast, fiercely rhythmical and pulsative texture, where the tone material for the most part is generated from permutations of prime-number series.  A thrilling addition to the reper…

Par FORBES L'ESTRANGE JOANNA (Arr.). Wade in the Water is a lively and infectious spiritual. Its features include a call-and-response texture, jazz ‘scat’ vocalization and finger clicks on beats 2 and 4 of the measure. This arrangement by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange remains true to the spirit of Eva Cassidy’s well-loved version, adapting the instrumental improvisation on the recording to create a fun…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens’ production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia’s Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de Rome that was established in 1803 then cancelled following the events of May 1968. It had been for more than a century and a half, the most co…

Francais/Anglais. Par MASSENET JULES. Don Quichotte is a comedy in five acts by Henri Cain, after ; Le Lorrain, with a music by J. Massenet. This special edition features pictures of the Monte Carlo theatre in 1910, texts in French and music for Piano and Voice with French lyrics. The comedy lasts approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in total. The five acts depict the heroic story of Don Quixote de la …

Version Hellmann/Koch. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN / KOCH JOHANNES H.E.. Reconstruction [based parodies] of Bach's St. Mark Passion by Diethard Hellmann [1964], with new composed recitatives [texts of the evangelium] and turba choirs by Johannes Koch [1999]. The words of Jesus are accompanyed by 2 gambas and organ./ Répertoire / Solistes SAT, Choeur SATB, 2 Flûtes Traversières,

Par GOUNOD CHARLES. A lifelong resident of Paris, Gounod can hold a claim to being the most important figure in late 19th century French music on account of his influence on later composers. Studying at the Paris Conservatoire, Gounod left in 1839to travel through Europe, initially to Rome but then on through Austria and Germany. He was profoundly struck by the music he heard at the Sistine Chapel…

Par PLE BERTRAND. Le texte du Victimæ paschali laudes serait probablement l’œuvre de Wipo de Bourgogne, auteur du xie siècle. Cette séquence liturgique a inspiré de nombreux compositeurs, en particulier aux xvie et xviie siècles, notamment Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Roland de Lassus ou William Byrd. Pour mettre en avant la dramaturgie du texte, j’ai choisi d’engager ma propre lecture jusque…

Ergänzt Von Robert D. Levin. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Requiem is known to the general public in the version undertaken immediately after Mozart's death by his pupil Franz Yaver Süßmayr. The attacks against Süßmayr's completion began in 1825, when the so-called 'Requiem Controversy' erupted. Over the last decade a number of musicians have attempted to cleanse the Requiem of the deficiencies…

Ergänzt Von Robert D. Levin. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Requiem is known to the general public in the version undertaken immediately after Mozart's death by his pupil Franz Yaver Süßmayr. The attacks against Süßmayr's completion began in 1825, when the so-called 'Requiem Controversy' erupted. Over the last decade a number of musicians have attempted to cleanse the Requiem of the deficiencies…