RAMEAU
Pygmalion / Nelée et Myrthis Howard Crook, Agnès Mellon, Jerome Corréas & Sandrine Piau / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Musique D'abord / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] The famous story of Pygmalion, who fell in love with one of his own sculptures and brought it to life, inspired Jean-Philippe Rameau with a perfect subject since it gave him the ideal opportunity of applying the very principle of the acte de ballet:... |
VARIOUS FRENCH COMPOSERS
Gautier Capucon - Destination Paris Gautier Capucon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano & harpsichord) / Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Maîtrise de Radio France, Lionel Bringuier [ Erato Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] A concept album of laidback repertoire from popular film melodies to French chansons to classical pieces - including "La Foule" by Édith Piaf, the main theme from Summer of '42 by Michel Legrand, "Beau soir" by Debussy, Sicilienne by Fauré, and "Chi... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
The Other Richard Strauss: Symphonic, Vocal and Chamber Music Boris Berezovsky, Renaud Capuçon, Jerôme Ducros, Eric Ericson, Michel Plasson & Vadim Repin / various conductors [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 1/May/2014 ] The lyric gift that makes Strauss's operatic writing so memorable still bathes these lesser-known works in a Romantic glow, whether impassioned (the early Violin Sonata), celebratory (Taillefer, the choral ballad on the battle of Hastings) or elegiac... |
JONATHAN LESHNOFF
Leshnoff: Chamber Music Carpe Diem String Quartet / Stephen Miahky (violin), Jerome Simas (clarinet) & Joshua Nemith (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Jonathan Leshnoff is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary American music, and his lyricism is accompanied by vibrant expressive qualities. |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Parade / Trois Gymnopedies / Orchestral Works) Nancy Symphony Orchestra, Jerome Kaltenbach [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The music is beguiling and bumptious by turns, its simplicity disguising revolutionary qualities. The Nancy orchestra plays this sad circus music as to the manner born, and the sound and presentation are solid. Another Naxos winner" (Gramophone... |
DE FALLA / RODRIGO / GINASTERA / DUNNE
Guitar Recital Jerome Ducharme (Guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2006 ] Joaquín Rodrigo, blind from childhood, established himself as the leading composer in Spain in the second half of the century, a rôle in which he followed Manuel de Falla. Like the latter, he studied in Paris, spending the years of the Civil War there. |
Jerome Richardson
Four Classic Albums (Flutes & Reeds / Roamin' With Richardson / Midnight Oil / Going To The Movies) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 6/May/2016 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Jerome Richardson, complete with original artwork and liner notes. "Flute & Reeds"; "Roamin' With Richardson"; "Midnight Oil" and "Going To The Movies" Another... |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Le Prophete (Complete opera recorded in 1976) Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, James McCracken, Jerome Hines / Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Lewis [ Sony Classical Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The role calls for a Brünnhilde range with an Amneris-type voice: the vocal flexibility and dramatic punch needed are extraordinary. Miss Horne has them all, and she brings out the pathos of the part without sentimentalizing it." (Gramophone) |
DEBUSSY / DVORAK / ELGAR / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / PROKOFIEV / etc
Capriccio: Virtuoso pieces for violin & piano Renaud Capucon (violin) Jerome Ducros (piano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 18/May/2008 ] "Not since the emergence of Vengerov and Repin has such an exciting young violinist come our way." International Record Review |
ERIK SATIE
Best Of Satie (Incls 3 Gymnopedies & Six Gnossiennes) Klara Kormendi (piano) / Nancy Symphony Orchestra / Jerome Kaltenbach [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Erik Satie, born in France in 1866, was a lazy pupil at the Paris Conservatoire, and only came to public attention after Debussy made orchestrations of two of his piano pieces, Gymnopédies. Satie became a 'character' in the Latin Quarter of Paris,... |
MARAIS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maris: Pieces de viole Jerome Hantai (bass viol) / Alix Verzier (bass viol) / Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2010 ] "This double helping of Marais (majoring on books 2 and 3) keeps things in the family. Pierre Hantaï accompanies brother Jérôme in a persuasive display of musical fraternité, interpretative égalité and fantasy-filled expressive liberté." (BBC Music) |
SATIE
Very Best of Satie (The) Gabor Eckhardt (Piano) / Klara Kormendi (Piano) / Nancy Symphony Orchestra / Jerome Kaltenbach (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] A selection of Satie's most popular piano and orchestral pieces. |
FAURE / DEBUSSY / HAHN / HONEGGER / etc
Green - Melodies françaises on Verlaine's poems Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor), Jerome Ducros (piano) & Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) Quatuor Ebène [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2015 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2016 - vocal |
RACHMANINOV / MASSENET / POPPER / SAINT-SAENS / JOPLIN / etc
Intuition Gautier Capucon (cello) Jerome Ducros (piano) / Orchestre de chamber de Paris, Douglas Boyd [ Erato Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2018 ] Intuition, a captivating album of short pieces for solo cello with piano or orchestra, has been conceived by Gautier Capuçon to "reflect the story of my life and follow the various stages in my emotional development". It brings together much-loved... |
LULLY / CHARPENTIER
Moliere A L'Opera Luanda Siquera (soprano), Jean-Francois Lombard (tenor), Jerome Billy (tenor), Virgile Ancely (Bass) / Les Paladins, Jerome Correas (Conductor) [ Glossa / CD - released 7/Oct/2016 ] With 'Molière à l'opéra' Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins bring their much-admired combination of Baroque stylishness and varied vocal techniques to comédies-ballets composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marc-Antoine Charpentier during the reign of... |
RACHMANINOV / MYASKOVSKY
Sonatas for cello and piano Bruno Philippe & Jérôme Ducros [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] After a first album as part of the harmonia nova collection, which resulted in a well-deserved Victoire de la Musique Classique (category new instrumental soloist), Bruno Philippe continues his path on the harmonia mundi label. This programme devoted... |
SATIE / DVORAK / ELGAR / DEBUSSY / JOPLIN / etc
Gautier Capuçon: Emotions Gautier Capuçon (cello) Jerome Ducros (piano) / Orchestre de chamber de Paris, Adrien Perruchon [ Erato Classics / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] "My album Emotions has grown out of my wish to broaden my musical explorations with pieces that everyone knows and loves. For several years now my cello and I have wanted to share these melodies. I asked my longtime collaborator, the pianist and... |
GRIEG / BARBER / MORRICONE / DVORAK / PROKOFIEV / etc
Gautier Capuçon: Sensations Gautier Capuçon (cello) Jerome Ducros (piano) / Orchestre national de Bretagne, Johanna Malangré [ Erato Classics / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] The follow-up to Intuition (2018) and Emotions (2020), Sensations is a collection of 20 peices from cellist extraordinaire Gautier Capuçon, working alongside regular arranger and pianist Jerome Ducros. Remarkably, Capuçon sounds every bit as... |
Henry Jerome & His Orchestra
Brazen Brass - Four Complete Albums [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/May/2012 ] A bandleader, producer and writer, Henry Jerome's diverse musical interest helped make him an important figurehead in whatever genre he laid his hand to and his series of Brazen Brass LPs are certainly a highlight. |
CHIHARA / ROCHBERG / ROREM
Jerome Lowenthal: Piano Jerome Lowenthal (Piano) [ Bridge / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] Much admired piano virtuoso, Jerome Lowenthal, is heard in a new recording of works with which he has had a particularly close association. The works by Chihara and Rorem were each composed for Lowenthal, as was George Rochberg's Carnival... |