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Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)

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Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)

Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon, Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Lucile Richardot, Christian Immler, Reinoud van Mechelen & Maitrise De Radio France - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 770 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 380 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:41:38
Classical, Sacred, Opera | Label: harmonia mundi

Bach and Pygmalion: the story of a passion linking the genius of the Thomaskantor to a reflection on inner drama and constantly renewed vocality. This Matthäus Passion marks a major stage in this fifteen- year companionship and testifies to the culmination of their work on Bach, characterised by its precision and humility. Read through the prism of a tragedy in five acts, at once intimate and theatrical, human and metaphysical, the Passion is revealed here in a new light: as a deeply moving epic exploring the very heart of Lutheran spirituality.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (2010)

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (2010)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 75:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: LPO | # LPO0045 | Recorded: 2009

Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in a luminous, expansive performance of Brahms' German Requiem recorded live in 2009, during Nézet-Séguin's first season as the orchestra's principal guest conductor. The conductor's conception is notable for creating a sense of breadth and serenity while maintaining a purposefulness and momentum that never allow the long lines to sag; it's a beautifully executed balancing act that allows the work to unfold with the spaciousness and grandeur it needs to make its maximum impact.

Nadia & Lili Boulanger - The Complete Songs: Les heures claires (2023)

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Nadia & Lili Boulanger - The Complete Songs: Les heures claires (2023)

Nadia & Lili Boulanger - The Complete Songs: Les heures claires (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 782 Mb | Total time: 3:10:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902356.58 | Recorded: 2022

Nadia and Lili Boulanger, each in her own way, made a lasting impact on the musical world of the twentieth century. Sometimes luminous and full of hope, sometimes more somber, all their works testify to a poignant humanity. Going beyond the mélodies, Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel and the other artists assembled for this edition offer a multi-faceted portrait of the two composers, a form of musical narrative containing pieces that have never been published or recorded before.

Stéphane Degout, Simon Lepper - Epic: Lieder & Balladen (2020)

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Stéphane Degout, Simon Lepper - Epic: Lieder & Balladen (2020)

Stéphane Degout, Simon Lepper - Epic: Lieder & Balladen (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 63:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi ‎| HMM902367 | Recorded: 2019

“The mystery of the ballad comes from the way it is told” - Goethe. This fascinating repertory requires the performer to play each of the characters as he or she would in an opera. Who better than Stéphane Degout to take up the challenge of plunging into the heart of German Romanticism? Fresh from winning a Victoire de la Musique in 2019, the French baritone truly embodies each of the protagonists in these shattering miniature dramas. Beside him here are a longstanding partner and two exceptional guests.

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2018)

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Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2018)

Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 73:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68171 | Recorded: 2018

Marc-Antoine Charpentier studied in Italy with Giacomo Carissimi, and he was one of the first composers to introduce aspects of Italian styles to France. His big motets lend themselves naturally to operatic singing, and even in liturgical works like the ones collected on this release, the Italian influences are still there. Sample the Magnificat à 3, with its ground bass-like construction and its unusual texture, including three male voices (bass, tenor, and haute-contre). The opening Litanies de la vierge are for a six-voice group, but the bulk of the program consists of the titular Leçons de ténèbres, solo works (two for bass and one for haute-contre) with a small ensemble to which is given a good quantity of expressive writing and contrapuntal clashes.

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Boreades (2004)

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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Boreades (2004)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Boréades (2004)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Francais (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 218 min | 6,42+7,50 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Sub: Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais | Recorded: 2003

It's possible to recreate everything about an eighteenth century opera except the audience,’ says director Robert Carsen in a documentary included with this DVD. ‘My work is for modern audiences.’ And how…In this brilliant production, Carsen goes to the heart of the drama…Michael Levine's stylised, bold designs allow the story to unfold with gripping clarity and, remarkably, some of the spectacular set-pieces (especially the storm in Act III) work even better on DVD than in the theatre itself. Barbara Bonney is vocally and dramatically stunning as Alphise…Conductor William Christie responds to Rameau's varied and colourful score with élan, and Édouard Lock's choreography – a version of classical ballet deconstructed and then pumped with amphetamines – is breathtaking.

Bertrand de Billy, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2009)

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Bertrand de Billy, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2009)

Bertrand de Billy, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 6.09+4.13 Gb (DVD9-DVD5) | 163 min
Classical | Virgin | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol

Soprano Natalie Dessay leaves the dizzy heights of Bellini’s Amina, Donizetti’s Marie and Massenet’s Manon to inhabit the more discreet emotional and vocal world of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with a cast of fellow francophones.
“There’s more to life than top notes,” Natalie Dessay has said. She has, of course, made her reputation with the florid, stratospheric heroines of Romantic French and Italian opera, but in this new DVD from Vienna she portrays a heroine who presents few opportunities for vocal display, but many for subtle characterisation – Debussy’s Mélisande. Dessay had sung the role just once before, in concert in Edinburgh in 2005. Pelléas et Mélisande is full of ambiguity and its vocal lines closely reflect Maurice Maeterlink’s often enigmatic text. A few unaccompanied, ballad-like phrases are the closest Mélisande gets to an aria.

Stéphane Degout, Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Mein Traum. Schubert, Weber, Schumann (2022)

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Stéphane Degout, Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Mein Traum. Schubert, Weber, Schumann (2022)

Stéphane Degout, Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon - Mein Traum. Schubert, Weber, Schumann (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 317 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:22:40
Classical, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi

One morning in 1822, Schubert wrote down an enigmatic text in which all his ghosts seem to take shape: wandering, solitude, consolation, disappointed love. Inspired by this dreamlike narrative, Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion and Stéphane Degout have devised a vast Romantic fresco, combining resurrection of unknown treasures with rediscovery of established masterpieces.

Daniel Harding, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Così fan tutte (2006)

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Daniel Harding, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Così fan tutte (2006)

Daniel Harding, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Così fan tutte (2006)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 6.76+6.62 Gb (2xDVD9) | 179 min
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | Sub: Italiano, Francais, English, Deutsch, Espanol

It takes a long time to find such a distinguished conductor who, in his early 20s, has already conducted orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with great success. You will find what you are looking for in this class with the conductor Daniel Harding, who was born in 1975. After many great CD recordings, Harding's work can now be experienced in a fascinating DVD production: in the recording of Mozart's opera »Così fan tutte« at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2005 - staged by Patrice Chéreau, the director of the legendary Bayreuth-Rings from 1980. Elina Garança, the new star in the Mozart heavens (who released a sensational Mozart recital on Virgin Classics in November 2005), is there as Dorabella.

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Les Nuits d'été (2019)

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François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Les Nuits d'été (2019)

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles - Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Les Nuits d'été (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 63:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902634 | Recorded: 2018

A new aesthetic calls for new forms: such is the challenge the composer set for himself in the two works presented here. In Les Nuits d’été, Berlioz pioneered, well before Mahler and Ravel, a song cycle for voice and orchestra. In Harold in Italy, scored for large orchestra and solo viola, he experimented with the symphonic genre. These period-instrument performances by Les Siècles, led by François-Xavier Roth, with violist Tabea Zimmermann, also feature Stéphane Degout in the vocal cycle, heard here in the composer’s own version for baritone. File under: out of the ordinary.

Sabine Devieilhe, Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Bach, Handel (2021)

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Sabine Devieilhe, Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Bach, Handel (2021)

Sabine Devieilhe, Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion - Bach, Handel (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 423 Mb | Total time: 83:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0190296677861 | Recorded: 2020

Great sorrow and great joy, expressed in in sacred and secular arias and cantatas, are the themes of Sabine Devieilhe’s album of Bach and Handel. Recorded with the Pygmalion ensemble and conductor Raphaël Pichon, it features appearances by baritone Stéphane Degout and lutenist Thomas Dunford and includes Bach’s cantatas ‘Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut‘ and ‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Lande’, and excerpts from Handel’s Brockes Passion and Giulio Cesare. “This is possibly the most personal programme I’ve recorded so far,” says Sabine Devieilhe, “and I’ve been lucky enough to record it with the Pygmalion ensemble and my husband Raphaël Pichon. We really wanted to convey the idea of human emotion that at times goes beyond our understanding, and which creates music of extraordinary drama.”

Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)

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Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)

Raphaël Pichon - J. S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | Cover | 02:41:28 | 747,12 МБ
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

Bach and Pymalion: history of a passion; and the exploration of inner drama associated with the brilliant cantor, as well as the constant refinement of the art of singing. A milestone in this 15-year relationship is the new recording of the St. Matthew Passion with Raphael Pichon at the helm of an extraordinary ensemble of singers and musicians, convincing in the precision and seriousness of the accomplished work. This reading is about a tragedy at once intimate and theatrical, human and metaphysical, in five acts.

Sophie Karthäuser, Stéphane Degout, Eugene Asti, Alain Planès - Debussy: Harmonie du soir: Mélodies (2018)

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Sophie Karthäuser, Stéphane Degout, Eugene Asti, Alain Planès - Debussy: Harmonie du soir: Mélodies (2018)

Sophie Karthäuser, Stéphane Degout, Eugene Asti, Alain Planès - Debussy: Harmonie du soir: Mélodies (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 421 Mb | Total time: 125:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902306.07 | Recorded: 2017, 2018

This generous song recital of Debussy Mélodies features soprano Sophie Karthäuser and baritone Stéphane Degout, accompanied by pianists Eugene Asti and Alain Planès. Drawing on Symbolist and Impressionist poets, this program, including Trois Ballades de François Villon and Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, showcases some of the composer's finest cycles. For Debussy, the artistic journey is first and foremost a matter of color.

Ivor Bolton, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2020) [BDRip]

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Ivor Bolton, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2020) [BDRip]

Ivor Bolton, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2020) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 178 min | 9,68 Gb
Audio: Italiano / DTS / 5ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean

Le nozze di Figaro is one of the most successful comic operas ever. Director David Bösch is a born storyteller. He likes to focus on the classics, and is known for his poetic approach. In this new production of Le nozze di Figaro, the hectic, bubbly story of Figaro’s eventful wedding party is visually interpreted in a revolving stage set.

Ivor Bolton, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2020) [Blu-Ray]

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Ivor Bolton, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2020) [Blu-Ray]

Ivor Bolton, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2020) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 25887 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 178 min | 43,2 Gb
Audio1: Italiano / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3862 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean

Le nozze di Figaro is one of the most successful comic operas ever. Director David Bösch is a born storyteller. He likes to focus on the classics, and is known for his poetic approach. In this new production of Le nozze di Figaro, the hectic, bubbly story of Figaro’s eventful wedding party is visually interpreted in a revolving stage set.