Eric Le Sage – Jardins suspendus (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Eminent representative of the French piano school, the pianist Eric Le Sage offers a new album in the form of a poetic walk in the secret gardens of 22 French composers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Between the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties, around two world wars that had to be healed, in the vertigo of all the rebirths and that of progress on the march, music also needed calm, humanity and natural intimacy. While twenty-two French composers cultivate their secret soul, in a few piano miniatures, electricity, the gramophone, the little queen, the Parisian metro … are already inviting themselves into people’s daily lives.
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Éric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, Claudio Bohórquez – Beethoven: Trios for Clarinet, Cello & Piano (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:11 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
With this new series entitled ‘Salon de musique’, Alpha presents recordings made by artists who have enlivened the Festival of Salon de Provence for some years now: the pianist Eric le Sage, who has made many recordings for Alpha, the clarinettist Paul Meyer etc… with cellist Claudio Bohórquez, they have now put two Beethoven trios on disc. By 1798, the year Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Trio for piano, clarinet and cello op.11, he was already well-known in Vienna as a remarkable improviser and an ambitious young composer. the piece was clearly aimed at the enlightened aristocracy, as well as competent musical amateurs. This did not prevent the critics, though universally positive, from judging the score to be over-complex in places. Dedicated to the Empress Marie-Theresa of Austria, the Septet was published in 1802 by Hofmeister, and on being well-received it was then rearranged for various combinations. Beethoven himself made a version for clarinet, cello and piano, op.38 in E Flat major – the one recorded here.
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Éric Le Sage – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 109-111 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:23 minutes | 953 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
‘Of Beethoven and his worlds in music, some will remember more the herald of pure music or of programme music, the Dionysian bearer of joy, or the man suffering from suicidal impulses, the builder or the destroyer. In any event, the creator stopped writing piano sonatas in 1822, the year of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s death. All the transgressions that are propounded by Beethoven’s Promethean output would be unable to conceal his faithfulness to the ideals of Aufklärung, his classic desire to lead, beyond the asperities, to a resolution and, beyond darkness, to light.’ –Brigitte François Sappey
Eric Le Sage approaches this cycle with the sensitive vision of a great interpreter, henceforth renowned for his complete Schumann and Fauré recordings.
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Eric Le Sage – Brahms: Œuvres pour piano à quatre mains (Intégrale musique de chambre), Vol. 10 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:05:30 minutes | 2,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © B Records
Variations funèbres, valses folles ou mélancoliques, danses hongroises où claquent des accents tziganes : c’est un florilège de l’esthétique brahmsienne qui vient conclure en beauté l’intégrale de la musique de chambre du compositeur chez B Records. Théo Fouchenneret et Éric Le Sage donnent toutes ses couleurs et ses contrastes au répertoire trop souvent mésestimé du piano à quatre mains.
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