Quatuor Manfred, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt – Clairs de lune (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Quatuor Manfred, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt - Clairs de lune (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Quatuor Manfred, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt – Clairs de lune (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:40 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Paraty

After more than 30 years of intense activity, the repertoire that our quartet has enjoyed, explored and championed is particularly vast. Several characteristics are expressed in it, and one of them is highlighted in this recording: our passion for the repertoire with voice.
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Quatuor Manfred – Quatuor Manfred: Schumann & Tchaïkovsky (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Quatuor Manfred – Quatuor Manfred: Schumann & Tchaïkovsky (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:44 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Paraty

A` l’occasion des 30 ans de la cre´ation de notre quatuor, nous avons souhaite´ au travers de cet enregistrement, e´voquer notre gure patronymique «Manfred». Manfred, gure essentielle et repre´sentative du romantisme europe´en, est totalement lie´ a` son cre´ateur, George Gordon Baron dit Lord Byron (1788-1824). Annonc¸ant le ce´le`bre Voyageur contemplant une mer de nuages peint l’anne´e suivante par Caspar David Friedrich, Manfred est un drame en vers publie´ en 1817. Sorte de Prome´the´e moderne, le personnage de Manfred envou^te imme´diatement le monde des arts, mais contrairement a` Faust dont la poste´rite´ musicale est foisonnante, peu de compositeurs ont ose´ dompter celui qui incarne la re´volte de l’homme contre la vie et qui communique avec le monde invisible. Deux compositeurs se sont empare´s du texte : Schumann avec son poe`me dramatique Manfred opus 115 e´crit a` partir de 1848 et cre´e´ en 1852, pour re´citant, parties solistes parle´es, chour et orchestre. Tchai¨kovsky avec sa Symphonie Manfred opus 58 de 1885, cre´e´e en 1886, pour orchestre. Par l’interme´diaire de Manfred, Byron s’interroge : «Pourquoi tant de beaute´…?» Schumann et Tchai¨kovsky se sont laisse´ nourrir et porter par ce texte, choisissant ce nom, nous adhe´rions a` un ide´al d’approche since`re et sans compromis de l’art musical, aussi nous espe´rons que cet enregistrement des pages pour quatuor de ces compositeurs incomparables puisse a` son tour nourrir votre imaginaire, vos passions. Les membres du Quatuor Manfred
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Marion Rampal, Quatuor Manfred And Raphaël Imbert – Bye-bye Berlin (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marion Rampal, Quatuor Manfred And Raphaël Imbert – Bye-bye Berlin (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:44 minutes | 614 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Bye bye… or Berlin for ever?
Throughout the 1920s, all eyes were turned towards Berlin. Driven by a collective energy, artists of all persuasions (writers, painters, architects, filmmakers and composers) there established the principles of “New Objectivity”, which saw the city become the very epitome of modernity, at the same time as following in the footsteps of other great cities worldwide, not least New York, the birthplace of jazz. Life in Berlin was not the stuff of romance however: strikes, poverty, repression, the rise of Nazism… The post-war social context contributed to the craze that swept the capital for cabaret, a kind of safety valve that allowed for a moral and social release. It is this ephemeral, underground world of “Great Berlin” as depicted in The Blue Angel that Marion Rampal and the Quatuor Manfred invite us to rediscover here, in collaboration with saxophonist Raphaël Imbert: a liberal burst of freedom and humanity delivered with passion!

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