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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Britten - Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Jean-Paul Minali-Bella (arpegina) European Camerata, Laurent Quénelle The European Camerata was founded in 1995, to continue the work of the Youth Orchestra of the European Community, from which all members originate. It is conducted by violinist Laurent Quénelle, the orchestra plays standing up and this is only their second recording. Fuga Libera is delighted to welcome the European Camerata into its catalogue with four early works of Benjamin Britten.The Lachrimae, in the orchestral version first heard in 1976, is performed here on the arpegina, a large dissymmetrical viol, created by lutenist Bernard Sabatier for Jean-Paul Minali-Bella. “To find a continental ensemble concentrating on Britten is something of a novelty, but this disc of string music contains performances of superb sensitivity. The Frank Bridge variations and the Simple Symphony
are given the edge of spectacular brilliance they demand and a depth of feeling to boot. ..the sound is haunting.” Sunday Times | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Bruno Crabbé (piano) The Monnaie Children’s Choir, Denis Menier | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Together with her regular duo partner Cédric Tiberghien, Marie Hallynck has already recorded for Harmonia Mundi's "New Artists" collection. Fuga Libera here offers a career hand up and a programme to match their talent and temperament: stretching, adventurous and utterly convincing.Two very recent works of Nicolas Bacri are here joined by two 20th-century classics that the duo consider as fundamental references. | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Paul Daniel conducts Barber, Berlioz & Britten
Anne-Catherine Gillet (soprano) Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Paul Daniel On the concert platform and on disc, Anne-Catherine Gillet radiates spontaneity, luminosity and enthusiasm in a way that is more than communicative. This outstanding recording of three masterpieces from the vocal repertoire provides an ideal opportunity to verify that. Listening, you will be charmed by the apparent facility, evidence and lightness of her phrasing. Anne-Catherine Gillet literally charms us with her fruity timbre, and it is impossible to remain impervious to the beauty of this new voice, accompanied with brio by the Liège Royal Philharmonic, conducted by one of the most prominent maestros of the lyric world, Paul Daniel. A moment of pure emotion, not to be missed on any account. “singing her native French, she treats the Berlioz and Britten with a light touch...Gillet and her conductor, Paul Daniel, are at their nest in a well-paced 'Le spectre de la rose', which captures the lilt of the dance to perfection...It is Les illuminations that gets the best performance of the three. The Liege players get some real bite out of the rhythms and Gillet lets her imagination take flight.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 “This is a dream of a programme, and the performances by Belgian soprano Anne-Catherine Gillet are enchanting...Her tuning is spot-on, and her stratospheric region – quite frequently explored in this work – sublime...The Liège orchestra’s playing is first class throughout, and Paul Daniel accompanies his singer most sensitively” MusicWeb International, February 2012 “in both Samuel Barber's rapt, nostalgia-drenched setting of James Agee's text in Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and in Britten's treatment of Rimbaud in Les Illuminations, Gillet shows exactly why she has become such a favourite in French and Belgian opera houses. Paul Daniel wraps Barber's instrumental lines around her voice with perfect tact, while in the Britten there's youthful energy and intensity in every phrase.” The Guardian, 22nd December 2011 *** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Since its creation in 2004, Alfama quartet has made quite a breakthrough thanks to its subtlety, elegance and dynamism. Selected by ProQuartet in 2006, these four young people work under the guidance of the Danel Quartet, and have worked with Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet), Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), Heime Muller (Artemis Quartet) and Eberhard Feltz. Even if they have already been recorded (a.o. for the Leo Brouwer Quintet with guitarist Denis Sung-Hô, FUG524), this is in reality their first great premiere: a sensitive and intelligent exploration of orphan pages of the quartet repertoire: gems signed by famous names ranging from Mendelssohn to Britten, via Tchaikovsky, Wolf, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg and Webern. | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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