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A Parisian in Paris Contemporary Works for Guitar BEFFA • KALAMPALIKIS • MATTON • OURKOUZOUNOV
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PÉPIN • STEFANELLI • VILOTEAU Gabriel Bianco, Guitar • Quatuor Éclisses
This album presents a diverse selection of world premieres commissioned by the award-winning guitarist, Gabriel Bianco, from composers who have lived and worked in his native Paris. These range from the swirling Spanish motifs in Matthieu Stefanelli’s Ellipsis for four guitars, featuring the Quatuor Éclisses, to Camille Pépin’s hypnotic Autumn Rhythm and Thomas Viloteau’s festive A Night in Bastille – just a few of the highlights in this programme of new guitar music from the City of Light.
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DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE SINGLE Thomas VILOTEAU (b. 1985) A Night in Bastille * Only available for download and streaming
8.579161 Release date: 28 Feb 2025
Companion titles – Other recommended recordings for guitar 8.572306 | 8.551485 | 8.574457 | 8.559948
9.50332 * Release date: 31 Jan 2025
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) Cello Suites, Vol. 1 Nos. 1, 4 and 5 Yasunori Imamura, Theorbo
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Yasunori Imamura, whose recording of Bach’s complete lute works has been described as a ‘magnificent interpretation’ (Naxos 8.573936-37), turns his attention to the Cello Suites . Imamura has chosen to perform these iconic suites on the theorbo, the most important plucked instrument in the lute family, with a range very similar to the cello. Certain technical elements, such as the playing of arpeggios are, in fact, easier on the theorbo whose unique timbres and resonances bring a new sonic quality to these much-loved works. Key features: • Yasunori Imamura has recorded Bach’s complete lute works on 8.573936-37: ‘Magnificent interpretation of Yasunori Imamura’ wrote Ritmo , while Record Geijutsu wrote that it was ‘a new era’s masterpiece album!’ • Imamura is recognised as one of the prominent figures of the lute, both as a soloist and as a continuo player. His solo recordings have been awarded numerous accolades, including a Diapason d’Or for Weiss’s Lute Sonatas, Vol. 1 on the Claves label. He received the Cultural Achievement Award from the Canton of Solothurn (Switzerland) in 2010. Imamura has collaborated as a continuo player with artists including Cecilia Bartoli, Teresa Berganza, Marc Minkowski and many others.
8.574617 Release date: 28 Feb 2025
Companion titles – Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer 8.573936-37 | 8.557280-81 8.573625 | 8.573626
Click to listen to Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
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Daron Aric HAGEN (b. 1961) Everyone, Everywhere * An Irish Airman Foresees his Death ** • The Bixby Letter ** Gabrielle Barkidjija, Mezzo-soprano * Shavon Lloyd **, Bryan Murray *, Baritones • Amir Farid, Piano **
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Every Voice Generations Choir * • The Cecilia Chorus of New York with Orchestra * • Mark Shapiro * Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning composer with a lifelong commitment to emotionally accessible and heartfelt music-making. Everyone, Everywhere is a sweeping cantata composed to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Taking a variety of texts, it charts the articles of the Declaration, opening in fanfare optimism and ending in tenderness, to form a passionate cry for justice and peace. The other settings, utilising texts by W.B. Yeats and President Abraham Lincoln, are both ardent Daron Hagen inspired Opera News to declare, ‘to say that he is a remarkable musician is to underrate him. Hagen is music.’ Composer of 14 operas and three internationally laurelled composer-directed opera-films, 6 symphonies (major works for ASCAP’s 75th Anniversary, the New York Philharmonic’s 150th, the Curtis Institute’s 75th, Yaddo’s 100th, and the Seattle Opera, The Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Symphony, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra), 14 concertos, chamber music and over 300 widely performed art songs, he is also a stage and auteur film director, librettist, conductor, collaborative pianist, and the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Duet With the Past. and intimate. Key feature:
8.579180 Release date: 14 Feb 2025
Companion titles – Daron Hagen, Composer 8.559914 | 8.559919 | 8.669049 8.559714 | 8.559657 | 8.669020-21
Click to listen to Everyone, Everywhere: I. Rude Awakening
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