More By Artist: Raphael
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Elina Garanca - When Night Falls ... Elina Garanca (Mezzo), Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, with Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar), Raimonds Pauls (piano), Albrecht Mayer (oboe) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] This intimate album, says Elīna Garanča, is meant for "that time of day when you withdraw to your own private life". The celebrated mezzo has selected songs to help her listeners "tune out the world for two or three minutes and immerse themselves in... |
LEO DELIBES
Delibes: Lakme (complete opera recorded in 2022) Opera Comique, Paris / Sabine Devieilhe, Grederic Antouni, Stephane Degout, Ambroisine Bre / Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] "Laurent Pelly transforms Delibes's opera into an exploration of colonialism and cultural appropriation...Raphaël Pichon, conducting Pygmalion on original instruments, relishes Delibes's lush orchestration." BBC Music DVD of the Month Jan 2024 |
LEO DELIBES
Delibes: Lakme (complete opera recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Opera Comique, Paris / Sabine Devieilhe, Grederic Antouni, Stephane Degout, Ambroisine Bre / Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Oct/2023 ] "Laurent Pelly transforms Delibes's opera into an exploration of colonialism and cultural appropriation...Raphaël Pichon, conducting Pygmalion on original instruments, relishes Delibes's lush orchestration." BBC Music Blu-ray of the Month Jan 2024 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Clarinet Works Raphaël Sévère (clarinet), Quatuor Modigliani / Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Lars Vogt [ Mirare / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] "In the terrible period when we were all deprived of culture, Mozart's music has really been life-saving for me, it has truly filled my life. To make up for these months of solitary confinement, I have worked on several recording and composition... |
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Raphaël Imbert (saxophone), Pierre-François Blanchard (piano), Sonny Troupé (drums)
Invisible Stream [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] Invisible Stream: the "unseen currents" are those that connect people and musical works by transcending styles or customary aesthetic and cultural boundaries. A feast of poetic expression organized by four key representatives of both the classical... |
FANTINI / MALVEZZI / CACCINI / MARENZIO / BRUNELLI / STRIGGIO
Stravaganza d'Amore! (Reissue) Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Late sixteenth-century Florence was a theatre: first and foremost a political one, in the eyes of the dynasties that wished to use the arts to display their power. A humanist one too, as is shown by these intermedi (interludes) that sought to achieve... |
Raphaël Imbert, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Pierre-François Blanchard & Sonny Troupe
Invisible Stream [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Jun/2022 ] Invisible Stream: the "unseen currents" are those that connect people and musical works by transcending styles or customary aesthetic and cultural boundaries. A feast of poetic expression organized by four key representatives of both the classical... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion Julian Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Hana Blažiková, Tim Mead / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD Box Set - released 29/Apr/2022 ] "With its glowing inner vitality and penetrating observations, this is a Passion that makes a very definite statement about what this work can communicate in our times." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Choral |
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau; Hippolyte et Aricie (complete opera recorded in 2020) Opéra Comique / Reinoud van Mechelen, Elsa Benoit, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Séraphine Cotrez / Raphaël Pichon (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded at the Opéra Comique, Paris, France, 12 and 14 November 2020 |
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau; Hippolyte et Aricie (complete opera recorded in 2020) BLU-RAY Opéra Comique / Reinoud van Mechelen, Elsa Benoit, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Séraphine Cotrez / Raphaël Pichon (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Recorded at the Opéra Comique, Paris, France, 12 and 14 November 2020 |
J. S. BACH / GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Sabine Devieilhe - Bach, Handel Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) / Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon, with Stéphane Degout (baritone) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Great sorrow and great joy, expressed in in sacred and secular arias and cantatas, are the themes of Sabine Devieilhe's album of Bach and Handel. Recorded with the Pygmalion ensemble and conductor Raphaël Pichon. |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
The Best of Malcolm Arnold East Winds; English Piano Trio; Maggini Quartet; Raphael Wallfisch (cello); Carl Raven (saxophone); English Northern Philharmonia, etc [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Sir Malcolm Arnold was one of the most gifted British composers of his generation. His music communicates directly with listeners through its rhythmic vitality and brilliant orchestration, with melodies that are eloquent, memorable and catchy. |
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Cavalli: Ercole Amante (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Opera Comique / Nahuel di Pierro, Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano), Giuseppina Bridelli, Francesca Aspromonte / Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Naxos Unitel Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Feb/2021 ] A sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production by directors Valerie Lesort and Christian Hecq. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Alexandre Dumas: Et La Musique Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), Marie-Laure Garnier (soprano), Kaëlig Boché (tenor), Raphaël Jouan (cello), Alphonse Cemin (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] 'There are few people as susceptible to certain musical beauties as I am; the more learned and complicated the instrumentation, the less I sense it, the faster it escapes me; on the contrary, if a simple and melancholic motif appears, I feel flooded... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Motets Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] The absolute summit of polyphonic art, Bach's motets exult with a joy that may be found surprising when one knows their most frequent liturgical use: at funeral ceremonies. Taking up the invitation of the Motet BWV 225, Raphaël Pichon and his... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano), Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor) / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Château de Versailles DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "It almost feels like a private performance for the viewer, since there is no sight or sound of an audience at all, until after the work has finished." MusicWeb Recommended |
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, cond.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Libertà! [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Between Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the advent of the famous 'Da Ponte trilogy', Mozart threw himself frantically into the search for the right libretto, capable of taking the spectator to lands still unexplored where the drama and the... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH / FRIEDRICH GULDA
Offenbach / Gulda: Cello Concertos Edgar Moreau (cello) / Les Forces Majeures, Raphaël Merlin [ Erato Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2019 ] "Moreau is a commanding presence, singing tone that illuminates Offenbach's debt to bel canto. His virtuosity can be thrilling…The Menuett [of the Gulda] is done especially beautifully, with plenty of rhythmic point." Gramophone |
Marion Rampal, Quatuor Manfred Feat. Raphaël Imbert
Bye Bye Berlin! [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] Bye bye… or Berlin forever? 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... |
LALANDE / CHIEN / COLIN / ANONYMOUS / etc
Les Funérailles Royales de Louis XIV BLU-RAY + DVD Céline Scheen, Lucile Richardot, Samuel Boden, Marc Mauillon, Christian Immler / Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon [ Harmonia Mundi Blu-ray + DVD / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] The funeral of Louis XIV mirrored his reign: grandiose and filled with pathos. Raphaël Pichon has chosen the setting of the Chapelle Royale in Versailles, built 'for the use' of the Sun King, to present a musical reconstruction of the event, with... |
