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Philippe Cassard, Natalie Dessay, Cedric Pescia, Orchestre National de Bretagne – Mozart à l’opéra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:40 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
The voice! The voice which, even if absent from the score, insinuates itself between the two hands of a pianist playing Mozart. In this music, all is dialogue, mingled avowals and passions, on the threshold of the opera house. All Mozart’s forms are nurtured by the same source, that of vocal melody. “I like an aria to be as precisely tailored to a singer as a well-cut suit”, he declared when he composed an aria. And what an aria this one is! Ch’io mi scordi di te! The keyboard enters into dialogue with the soloist. And then we leave the world of the aria for that of the concerto, unless it be an imaginary sonata…
Directed from the piano by Philippe Cassard, the Concerto No. 22 borrows the same “suit”. Here is a piece of “wordless theatre”, composed at the period of Le nozze di Figaro, which portrays first drama, then meditation, and finally carefree joy. The divine spectacle continues with the Fantasia, KV 475, which foreshadows the worlds of Beethoven and Schubert, with their cries and whispers and things unsaid.
Let us complete these imaginary dialogues with the finest of the sonatas for piano four hands, KV 497. Two voices in unison, enamoured of beauty.
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Zoot Collectif, Natalie Dessay & Zoot Octet with Neil Saidi, Noé Codjia, David Paycha, Thomas Gomez & Clément Trimouille – Pannonica (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zoot Records
Muse, benefactress, agent and supporter of numerous African-American jazz musicians who were victims of racial segregation, the daughter of Charles Rothschild and wife of Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, found a meaning to her life in the jazz clubs of Manhattan. There she met the king of bebop, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, John Coltrane, Walter Davis, Sonny Clark, Lionel Hampton and many others. Dreaming of telling their story in music, and based on an original idea by Neil Saidi, saxophonist and musical director of the Zoot Collectif, the octet composed the music for the poetic show Pannonica, with the help of writer and director Elsa Rooke.
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Zoot Octet & Natalie Dessay – Pannonica (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
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An aristocrat passionate about jazz, Pannonica de Koenigswarter leaves life in a castle for New York clubs! At the dawn of the 1950s, the benefactress Baroness watches over a community of Afro-American jazzmen in the shadows. For more than thirty years, she will be their patron, providing these artists with unwavering support as well as exemplary and visionary recognition. On stage, Natalie Dessay embodies with talent this emblematic figure, close friend of many jazz legends, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker in the lead. Together, with the brilliant collective of musicians the Zoot Octet, they retrace the journey of “Nica”, offering a poetic show mixing theater and music, stage plays and archive images. The show “Pannonica” was created in 2019 by the Zoot Collectif and was performed for the first time at La Seine Musicale. For this album release, the Zoot octet presents the original soundtrack of the show accompanied by Natalie Dessay as a narrator.
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Natalie Dessay, Philippe Cassard – Natalie Dessay sings Schubert (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:54 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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The first ever German album of Natalie Dessay (this is her first Schubert album and her first lieder album). 4 Lieder have never been sung by a woman before. recorded with Philipp Cassard (piano) in Berlin, Siemensvilla on November 28th – December 3rd, 2016. Album supported with World Tour Dates in Spring 2017. from Schiller and Goethe to Heine, the Schubertian Lied, which is based on the best German poets, is a reflection of the intimate thoughts of the composer who realizes an outstanding fusion between the poetic verb and the musical lyricism. Natalie Dessay is a regular collaborator with Michel Legrand and together they have performed all over the world. She is also a committed recital singer, frequently performing French melodies and German Lieder with Laurent Naouri, Maciej Pikulski or Philippe Cassard. In 2015 she revealed new depths of dramatic and rhetorical insight, making her debut as a narrator in performances of Howard Barkler’s monologue Und at the Théâtre Olympia in Tours, and in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Athénée. The project was so successful that it was revived at the Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris in May 2016. Natalie Dessay is the only French female artist to be awarded the honorary rank of Kammersängerin by the Wiener Staatsoper.
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Natalie Dessay, Paris Mozart Orchestra, Claire Gibault – Pictures Of America (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:32:48 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
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The album is a journey through music (Great American Song Book, Broadway & Jazz) and Edward Hopper’s art. The songs have been arranged by the most sought-after and best jazz arrangers including Baptiste Trotignon, Pierre Boussaguet, Patrice Caratini and Cyrille Lehn. Recorded with the Paris Mozart Orchestra and 2 Jazz Musicians, this is Natalie Dessay’s exciting first album release for Sony Classical. The first disc contains eleven songs from the Great American Song Book and the second: 8 compositions by Graciane Finzi (inspired by the Hopper paintings), texts by French poet Claude Esteban, recited by Natalie before Barber’s Adagio closes the album.
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Natalie Dessay – Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Woman) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:32 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Classical
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A truly unique album from the stunning Natalie Dessay alongside Michel Legrand and the London Studio Orchestra. Composed by multi award winning artist Michel Legrand and written by American poets Alan & Marilyn Bergman. Originally composed and written in the 70’s the project was never completed.
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Michel Legrand & Natalie Dessay – Entre elle et lui (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:30 minutes | 714 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics International
After her triumphs in the world’s great opera houses, Natalie Dessay crosses over. A tribute to the legendary Michel Legrand who has scored some of the most famous musical soundtracks.
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Natalie Dessay, Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Piotr Beczala, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra and Mariinsky Chorus – Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:04 minutes | 2,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Mariinsky label’s opera recordings have garnered acclaim and awards from around the world, most recently for Valery Gergiev’s recording of Parsifal released in 2010. For the label’s fifth opera, Gergiev conducts Donizetti’s masterpiece with a magnificent cast led by Natalie Dessay.
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Natalie Dessay, Shani Diluka – Babar et le Père Noël (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:30 minutes | 897 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
Natalie Dessay s’empare d’un classique de la littérature jeunesse: Babar et le Père Noël, véritable trésor national écrit et illustré par Jean de Brunhoff, avec toute la délicatesse et le piquant que l’on connaît au père de l’éléphant le plus apprécié – avec Dumbo – des têtes blondes
La soprano colorature se glisse dans les mots de Jean de Brunhoff avec un plaisir communicatif. Grimant sa voix de mille façons. Épousant au plus près les intonations juvéniles de Zéphir, les poses altières de Babar ou l’insouciance d’une assemblée de rongeurs aussi farfelue que remuante…
Notre pétillante comédienne en herbe s’est entourée de la pianiste Shani Diluka. Interprète sensible et poétique, cette dernière illustre en musique le récit savoureux de Dessay, par de brèves pièces puisées pour la plupart dans l’essence du répertoire français : Satie, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Bizet et, bien sûr, Poulenc qui mit en musique l’histoire de Babar dès 1940. Un délicieux retour en enfance, en même temps qu’une fine initiation à la musique pour piano, porté par deux artistes attachantes et passionnées.
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