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    Mathieu: Concerto No. 3 - Gershwin: An American in Paris / Falletta, Lefevre, Buffalo Phil
    Analekta

    Mathieu: Concerto No. 3 - Gershwin: An American in Paris / Falletta, Lefevre, Buffalo Phil

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    GERSHWIN MATHIEU
    Artist
    Falletta, Lefevre
    Released
    Sep 29, 2017
    This new album by the great pianist and composer Alain Lefevre unveils the results of three years of hard work by Jacques Marchand, George Nicholson and Alain Lefevre aimed at restoring Andre Mathieu’s famous Concerto No. 3. Presented as a world premiere in February 2017 in Buffalo, where it was performed by Alain Lefevre and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of the renowned JoAnn Falletta, the reconstituted Concerto No. 3 was enthusiastically received by the audience. Recorded at those performances, the album Andre Mathieu: Concerto No. 3 accurately conveys the brilliance of Alain Lefevre and the enthusiasm of the musicians, aware as they were of sharing a highly emotional and one-of-a-kind moment. JoAnn Falletta had previously collaborated with Alain Lefevre in presenting works by Mathieu – in New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2013, among other settings. It was in the fall of 1942, 75 years ago, that young Quebec prodigy Andre Mathieu, just 13 years old and at the peak of his glory, began writing his Concerto No. 3, which he would finish the following summer. In 2008, George Nicholson discovered the original score of Andre Mathieu’s Concerto No. 3 written in the Quebec composer’s own hand. The differences, which were noteworthy, between this original score and the Concerto de Quebec, the well-known, modified, version of the work, were the starting point for an enormous undertaking aimed at restoring this masterwork of Mathieu’s. The new album also contains George Gershwin’s An American in Paris. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered in 1928, the work translates into music the vivid impressions of an American visiting Paris, strolling the city streets and soaking up the exuberant atmosphere of the French capital.

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    REVIEW:

    After languishing unnoticed for several decades, in 2008 the original autograph score for two pianos of Andre Mathieu's Concerto No. 3 was discovered in Ottawa. Since then, composer and conductor Jacques Marchand has prepared a critical edition that is faithful to the original manuscript. This is its first full recording. It has all the sweeping gestures of its period and a devilishly difficult piano part. Lefèvre’s performance at the keyboard is masterful. He and the BPO perform the work with astonishing authenticity, restoring a fascinating chapter to Canadian music history of that period.

    – The Whole Note (Canada)
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  • Mathieu: Concerto No. 3 - Gershwin: An American in Paris / Falletta, Lefevre, Buffalo Phil

    Mathieu: Concerto No. 3 - Gershwin: An American in Paris / Falletta, Lefevre, Buffalo Phil

    Analekta Sep 2017
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • MATHIEU / ADDINSELL / GERSHWIN: Piano Concertos

    MATHIEU / ADDINSELL / GERSHWIN: Piano Concertos

    Analekta May 2007
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • Mathieu, A. / Shostakovich, D. / Mendelssohn, F.: Concertino

    Mathieu, A. / Shostakovich, D. / Mendelssohn, F.: Concertino

    Analekta Nov 2009
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • Romantic Rhapsodies / Alain Lefèvre

    Romantic Rhapsodies / Alain Lefèvre

    Analekta May 2007
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    1. Cavalli: Il Giasone / Alarcon, Sabadus, Hammarstrom, Cappella Mediterranea
    2. Cavalli: Il Giasone / Alarcon, Sabadus, Hammarstrom, Cappella Mediterranea
    Alpha

    Cavalli: Il Giasone / Alarcon, Sabadus, Hammarstrom, Cappella Mediterranea

    DVD · 1 disc

    $34.99
    Composer
    CAVALLI, FRANCESCO
    Artist
    Capella Mediterranea, Sabadus, Hammarstrom, Mkhitaryan, White, Gimenez, Visse, Flores, Agadzharian
    Released
    Feb 22, 2019
    This production of Francesco Cavalli’s Il Giasone was filmed in January 2017 at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva. It forms a part of the ‘Cavalli tetralogy’ of the past few years, conducted by the man who has become Cavalli’s great ambassador: Leonardo Garcia Alarcón. Il Giasone, Dramma musicale, in a Prologue and Three Acts, first performed on 5 January 1649, alternates the tragic with the comic, with no concern for fidelity to the mythological legend of Jason and Medea. Francesco Cavalli’s opera, composed for the carnival season in Venice, presents a mosaic of contrasted episodes, rich in musical emotions. His music here attains a remarkable degree of evocative power, with la musica having the upper hand over la dramma. Il Giasone represents the subtle equilibrium between lyricism and narrative. The comic, the tragic, and the supernatural all meet and mingle, and Cavalli’s Lamenti – forming the climax of the work – are particularly unequalled,. Resolutely burlesque and zany, Serena Singaglia’s production celebrates the opera’s sensuality. Le Temps commented: ‘In the pit, the Cappella Mediterranea with Garcia Alarcón pursue a sense of musical flux with delicacy, lightness and quick-footedness, ideally responding to the score’s demands. With an instrumental sound that is both round and sprightly, they succeed in capturing the ludic dimension of the work, its melodic freshness, and its harmonic tensions. Drama and rapture are artfully fused together.”

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    REVIEW:

    The top-notch cast really savor the score’s lyricism, balancing all the cross-dressing camp with something disarmingly heartfelt. Dominique Visse is an irrepressible Delfa, taking ‘her’ pleasure wherever possible, and there are fine cameos from the veteran tenor Raúl Giménez as the cuckolded Egeo (cruelly styled as Peter Ustinov’s Poirot in Death on the Nile), Willard White’s Oreste and Migran Agadzhanyan as a nervily energetic Demo.

    – Gramophone
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  • Cavalli: Il Giasone / Alarcon, Sabadus, Hammarstrom, Cappella Mediterranea

    Cavalli: Il Giasone / Alarcon, Sabadus, Hammarstrom, Cappella Mediterranea

    Alpha Feb 2019
    1 disc
    DVD
    $34.99
    • My Playlist for Painting & Drawing
    Naxos

    My Playlist for Painting & Drawing

    CD · 1 disc

    $13.99 $19.99 Save 30%
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    Nov 09, 2018

    Music and art are inexorably bound together, and this playlist of inspirational and relaxing classical works provides the perfect background to time spent drawing and painting. From the iconic ? rst notes of Promenade from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, to Murphy’s sublime Scintillation from And then at night I paint the stars, these works span a multitude of hues and tones, from Higdon’s Pale Yellow to Bliss’s Purple. Prime your canvas, prepare your palette and immerse yourself in a world of colour and sound.

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  • My Playlist for Painting & Drawing
    Sale

    My Playlist for Painting & Drawing

    Naxos Nov 2018
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $13.99Save 30%
    • Bree: Orchestral Works
    CPO

    Bree: Orchestral Works

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    Johannes Bernardus van Bree
    Artist
    Kolner Akademie, Ariadne Daskalakis
    Released
    Oct 18, 2024
    According to the thoroughly credible words of his contemporaries, Johannes Bernardus van Bree, the long-time musical director of the Felix Meritis Society of Amsterdam, was not only an extremely talented violinist and composer. He was also, to the delight of those around him, a very pleasant, flexible character who strove all his life to please others. This made him shy away from tormenting the conservative capital of the Netherlands with avant-garde provocations. However, it did not stop him from skilfully and sensitively composing unusually appealing works in the conventional vocabulary of the early Romantic years. His highly dramatic overture in the "unfinished" key of B Minor and his original Symphonic Fantasy, which is a mere stone's throw away from Robert Schumann, are particularly surprising.
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  • Bree: Orchestral Works

    Bree: Orchestral Works

    CPO Oct 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99