Sophie Dervaux - Lumiere - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ever since it's creation more than twenty-five years ago, the Accentus chamber choir has ardently championed the a cappella repertory under it's conductor and founder Laurence Equilbey, it has produced an impressive discography that sets the benchmark in this music. For this new recording, the first for Alpha, she hands over direction of the ensemble to Christophe Grapperon, it's associate conductor since 2013 'It can never be said often enough the a cappella repertory is a Holy Grail of vocal music! It is a sensory experience directly accessible to everyone, but demanding and often atypical for the listener.' Hahn and Saint-Saëns are on the program of this album in superb choral works combining simplicity and expressive power, some of which have never been recorded before. Album Tracks 1. Romance du soir, Op. 118 2. Choruses (2) for chorus with piano ad lib, Op. 68~1. Calme des nuits 3. Choruses (2) for chorus with piano ad lib, Op. 68~2. Les Fleurs et les arbres 4. Choruses (2), Op. 141~1. Des pas dans l'allée 5. Saltarelle Op. 74 6. Chansons et madrigaux~Vivons, mignarde! (sur un rythme de Lully) 7. Chansons et madrigaux~Pleurez avec moi! 8. Chansons et madrigaux~Les Fourriers d'été 9. obscurité 10. À la lumière 11. Rondels~No. 1, Le jour 12. Rondels~No. 11, La nuit 13. Aubade athénienne

Oboist Celine Moinet has already released threealbums on Berlin Classics with music by Bach, Schumann and French composers. Now she returnswith an album, where she pairs Mozart's Adagio forEnglish Horn K580a and Oboe Quartet with worldpremiere recordings of the works by Luigi Gatti Quartet in F major and C major. The Italian composersettled down in Salzburg in 1782, when he was already an acquaintence to the Mozart family. Worth discovering are Gatti's chamber works, created during his later years as a retiree after the secularisation and dissolution of the Salzburg prince-archbishopric in 1803. These works reveal him as a skilled and inventive master of form, as well as an experimenter in instrumentation. The F major quartet, in particular, presents considerable virtuoso challenges, including passages that push the oboe's range even higher than Mozart's quartet, reaching up to high G (g'). This daring extension of the oboe's tonal possibilities marks Gatti as an innovator and serves as a testament to his creative spirit. Album Tracks 1. Quartet in F Major K. 370~I. Allegro 2. Quartet in F Major K. 370~II. Adagio 3. Quartet in F Major K. 370~III. Rondeau. Allegro 4. Quartet in C Major~I. Allegro con brio 5. Quartet in C Major~II. Adagio 6. Quartet in C Major~III. Allegro moderato 7. Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330~Andante Cantabile K. 330 8. Quartet in F Major~I. Allegro 9. Quartet in F Major~II. Adagio cantabile 10. Quartet in F Major~III. Rondo. Allegro 11. Adagio K. 580

Album Tracks 1. Am Rande Der Nacht 2. Wer Du Auch Seist 3. Der Nachbar 4. Schon Bricht Das GLÜCK 5. Eros Gieb Deine Schönheit 6. Wie Ein Wort Das Noch Im Schweigen Reift Pour Violoncelle (2011-2012) - Justus Grimm 7. Ich Soll Silbern Erzittern Pour Flûte Alto (2011-2012) - Carlos Bruneel 8. Wer Du Auch Seist 9. Der Nachbar 10. Eros 11. Gieb Deine Schönheit