Musique en Wallonie

  • Ysaye: Poeme nocturne
    Ysaye: Poeme nocturne

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    Over time, the memory of the brilliant virtuoso that was Eugene Ysaye (Liege, 1858 - Brussels, 1931) ended up supplanting his status as a composer in the collective memory. It should be remembered, however, that...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 10, 2025

  • Si breve e 'l tempo - Madrigals in the Low Countries
    Si breve e 'l tempo - Madrigals in the Low Countries

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    In the last quarter of the 16th century, the madrigal spread well beyond Italy. Over 85 books of Italian madrigals were printed in Antwerp, mainly by Pierre Phalese the younger, giving a place of choice...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 15, 2024

  • Richafort: Missa O Genitrix; Missa Veni Sponsa Christi
    Richafort: Missa O Genitrix; Missa Veni Sponsa Christi

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    Jean Richafort was thrust into the limelight by the success of his works, a fine reputation and his encounters with powerful figures such as Louis XII, Anne de Bretagne and Francois Ier. However, he remains...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 15, 2024

  • Rogister: Œuvres de la Grande Guerre
    Rogister: Œuvres de la Grande Guerre

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    This release brings together works composed by Jean Rogister (1879-1964) during World War I: like most of his coreligionists, banned by edict of the occupying forces from appearing in public or even from teaching, Rogister...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 23, 2018

  • La Musique
    La Musique

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    This recording of songs or “Melodies” for soprano with piano quintet accompaniment by the Liege composer Joseph Johngen is a first. Although he wrote mostly instrumental music, he regarded vocal music equally highly, and in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 24, 2017

  • PORTRAIT MUSICAL
    PORTRAIT MUSICAL

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    The third volume of the Musical portraits series is dedicated to André-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813). This 5CD box set includes highlights of several operas (La caravane du Caire, L'amant jaloux, Le jugement de Midas), his Six...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2014

  • Desprez: I. Motets et chansons / Cut Circle
    Desprez: I. Motets et chansons / Cut Circle

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    Josquin des Prez: the name evokes beautiful, brilliant, even magical music—but more than five centuries since he composed his last note, we are still discovering how to hear him. In this album, originally conceived to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 03, 2023

  • Franck: Rédemption
    Franck: Rédemption

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    C�sar Franck's R�demption (1873) is a pivotal work. It is an "ode-symphony," coming at the crossover point between oratorio, opera and symphonic poem - a vein brilliantly exploited by Franck in Psych� (1888) and Les...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2019

  • Samuel-Holeman: La jeune fille à la fenêtre
    Samuel-Holeman: La jeune fille à la fenêtre

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    A contemporary of Claude Debussy, and a close friend of Maurice Maeterlinck, the composer Eug�ne Samuel-Holeman (1863-1942) takes us to the heart of the end-of-the-century in Belgium, to a place between symbolism and modernism. La...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 13, 2019

  • Saint-Luc: Pieces for Lute / Mascardi
    Saint-Luc: Pieces for Lute / Mascardi

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    In 1996, the label Musique en Wallonie published an album with works for Lute by Jacques de Saint-Luc (c. 1616-1708). These pieces were brilliantly performed by Stephen Stubbs. Recent studies allow us to affirm that...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 09, 2018

  • Jongen: Entrevisions (Intégrale des mélodies, Vol. I)
    Jongen: Entrevisions (Intégrale des mélodies, Vol. I)

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    In 2016 Sarah Defrise unearthed more than twenty unpublished songs by Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), some of them preserved amongst the composer's private papers. Such a discovery is an important event in the Belgian musical landscape....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 11, 2019

  • Ysaye: Neiges d'Antan / Kantorow, Coeytaux, Salle Philharmonic, Liege
    Ysaye: Neiges d'Antan / Kantorow, Coeytaux, Salle Philharmonic, Liege

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    This is something of an exceptional disc. Especially if you are a collector of virtuoso violin music. There is a good case for Eugène Ysaÿe being the most musically interesting of the famed group of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2016

  • Airs et mélodies
    Airs et mélodies

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    The “Historiques” collection is devoted to reissuing historic recordings linked to particular performers. This time the focus is on the singer Pierre d’Assy (Liège 1868 - Lyon 1910). Although he died young, this bass achieved...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 03, 2017

  • Antoine: Quatuor et Sonate
    Antoine: Quatuor et Sonate

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    The 14-18 collection draws a musical picture of the Great War years, thanks to recordings of both erudite and popular musical pieces that emerged at the time. + The chamber music of Georges Antoine, most...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 18, 2014

  • Lasso: Io ti vorria contar... Transcriptions for Lute / Mascardi
    Lasso: Io ti vorria contar... Transcriptions for Lute / Mascardi

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    In that apogee of polyphonic vocal music, the 16th century, Roland de Lassus (Mons c. 1532-Munich 1594) is pre-eminent. So famous was he that by the time he was 34, Samuel Quickelberg had already written...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 03, 2023