The series 'L'Oreille de...' from Cypres and the Huelgas Ensemble, that began with "L'Oreille de Zurbar�n" and "L'h�ritage de Petrus Alamire," juxtaposes the music of a particular period and the creative world of a contemporaneous painter, scribe or explorer. What might he have listened to if he had had a transistor radio, a hifi system or the possibility of streaming on a computer? In conjunction with the exhibition: "Theodoor van Loon, a caravaggist between Rome and Brussels" in BOZAR Brussel, this album introduces the first Southern Netherlands Caravaggist between Rome and Brussels through the music of the seventeenth century. Paul Van Nevel has selected some emblematic pieces played in Italy, where van Loon used to live between 1602 and 1608, and in the musical chapel of Albert and Isabelle.

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Commissioned by Marc Collet and Ensemble21, Onze Folksongs d'ici et d'ailleurs by Jean-Marie Rens is a complete rearrangement of his Sept chansons traditionnelles flamandes, francaises et wallonnes composed over twenty years ago. This new version calls for a larger instrumental ensemble, since it was rewritten for the lineup of Luciano Berio's famous Folk Songs, to which it offers an original and unprecedented mirror. The challenge here was to preserve the specific character of these Sept chansons while carrying out a massive task of orchestration-arrangement as well as composition. � Luciano Berio is arguably the most prominent figure in contemporary Italian music. He composed the cycle of Folk Songs in 1964 for his wife, the American soprano Cathy Berberian. A remarkable fusion of popular and classical music, they represent a kind of anthology made up of eleven folk songs of various origins that the composer had found on old records, in printed collections or heard directly from friends. � Albane Carrere and the Ensemble21 conducted by Marc Collet approach these two collections with infinite tenderness and a subtle art of evocation. Albane Carrere's mezzo voice weaves the link and travels imperceptibly between these two worlds.

Sensory correspondences, displacement of the imaginary, reversal of perspectives: it is to such an experience that ekstasis invites you- a musical recording and multimedia object constructed from sound and image, centered on six works by Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Baptiste Barri�re. The complementarity of the Finnish composer and the French composer and filmmaker, living together and often working together, shape the fairly precise organization of the work featured in this album. The three works by Kaija Saariaho are musical compositions, sonic, acoustic and electronic constructions, which already existed before her husband unfurled his vision of them. Complexity inside them can have the transparency of the dragonfly. The three pieces by Jean-Baptiste Barri�re were conceived as multimedia works, and primarily for a visual concert, with lines and rhythms that are perhaps more direct, leaving spaces open for receiving the images.

Clara Ingese was twenty when she discovered the multi-facetted personality of Ophelia who breathes a special energy into her desire to sing. Today she imagines through an album, from the 19th musical century, a journey between worlds, questioning Ophelia's madness within the torments and interrogations of our time. Thus was born the last piece, Chant d'exil, commissioned from Fran�ois Emmanuel (for the text) and Beno�t Mernier (for the music). This poetic allegory reflects the fluid gap between the boundaries and sings of the tragedy of an errant Ophelia, as though addressing the memory of our deceased human siblings who drowned on the path of exile. Belgian-Italian soprano Slara Inglese has performed on stages all across Europe. She is especially involved in theater and contemporary creations.

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Pierre-Adrien Charpy's music is an organic multifaceted music, through which run visible strata and unsuspected crevices, enlivened by surface currents and subterranean flows. His way of composing is characterized by stratification, working the depths, renewing formal milestones, employing the resources of creative constraint. The pieces presented in the first volume of this album belong to the composer’s collection of jewellery, his etchings, his small-scale works with the delicate wash of the watercolour or the precise impasto of the paintbrush. The second volume unfurls in one breath a concert-work which is nothing less than a panorama painted on fresh plaster, depicting an almost hallucinatory voyage in which the listener is invited to dance just as much as to meditate. This hour of music, a sequence of baroque, contemporary and traditional music, forms an innovative opening to the music of our time, into which some will venture who would otherwise never have dared.

The musical collective Anavantou! was formed in 2013 on the initiative of Belgian music producer Damien Chemin and Brazilian musician Dudu Prudente. Seeking a way to bring their cultures closer together through music, they proposed the meeting between the percussive group Membrana and the singer Nino Karvan both from the State of Sergipe in Brazil, and the Belgian instrumental group Turdus Philomelos. Anavantou's music is inspired both by Brazilian Northeast forro rhythms and Belgian surrealism, and turns out to be a surprising explosive and festive transatlantic cultural dialogue. The name Anavantou comes from a creole transformation of the French ''En avant toute'' inherited from the French colonization in the Northeast of Brazil. It is used to direct dances during traditional forro balls. It expresses the hybrid identity of the band which proposes an unconventional encounter between zabumba, triangle, saxophone, diatonic accordion, harmonica, violin, organ and bass to form the ensemble's own sonority. Brincantes presents mainly original compositions by the band and a few pieces of the folk repertoire. The group's playful and festive approach unfolds freely thanks to the energy and original arrangements of the musicians in collaboration with musical director David Bovee. The album also features singer dona Nadir, one of the greatest voices of the traditional music of the Sergipe region, as well as the astonishing pifano flutes group Os Vitos.

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