Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Frédéric Chaslin – Poulenc: La Voix humaine, Fiançailles pour rire (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:53 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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In 1958 Poulenc composed La voix humaine, a one-act opera for soprano and orchestra, based on the monodrama of the same name, written for the Comédie-Française by his friend Jean Cocteau. In this staging of the end of an amorous relationship, we hear only the woman’s side of a final telephone conversation with the man who has abandoned her. The orchestra in this innovative work is used not only to unify the composition, but also to reveal what the voice, laid bare by a moving parlé-chanté style, does not say. Fiançailles pour rire and Chemins de l’amour, usually for voice and piano, but presented here in an orchestrated version by one of our finest conductors, Frédéric Chaslin, completes this eloquent rendition of works of a bittersweetness that Poulenc transcends like no other.
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Karl-Heinz Schütz, Frédéric Chaslin – Syrinx (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:54 minutes | 899 MB | Genre: Classical
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Karl-Heinz Schütz and Frédéric Chaslin met at the Vienna State Opera, where Schütz is principal flutist and Chaslin appears regularly as conductor.
Chaslin’s Sonata for Flute and Piano is tailored to the personality and special qualities of the flutist.
Recorded for the first time, the work gives free rein to the “sentiment parisien” that can also be felt in Debussy and Poulenc. In addition, the two musicians interpret pieces by Varèse, Honegger and Bozza.
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Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann & Frédéric Chaslin – Chansons pour elle (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:57 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Classical
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Julie Cherrier here records an album of songs exploring a variety of moods and situations, and covering over a hundred years of French mélodie, from Reynaldo Hahn to the present day. It includes classics of the genre (Debussy’s Nuit d’étoiles, Poulenc’s Les chemins de l’amour), but also very recent compositions, in the form of two song cycles by Frédéric Chaslin. Chansons pour elle (to poems by Jean Cocteau) and Nudités (on texts by Alain Duault) are imaginative works, free in their expression. Music of today meets music of yesterday and the result is both subtle and poetic.
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Ophélie Gaillard, Morphing Chamber Orchestra & Frédéric Chaslin – Cellopera (Deluxe Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:53 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
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From well-loved arias to new discoveries, this recording journeys through over a century of opera, with transcriptions for cello and orchestra stretching from Mozart to Puccini and including Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Offenbach. The curtain goes up on some of Ophélie Gaillard’s favourite pieces, which explore human passions through the voice of the cello, that most human of instruments.
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