Boitier Cristal 1 CD - Durée : 63'35 - Enregistré en concert en juillet 2010 au Manège de Reims dans le cadre des Flâneries Musicales d'Eté de Reims - Enregistrement & posproduction : Frédéric Briant - Piano Steinway & Sons préparé par Régie Pianos
Boitier Cristal 1 CD - Durée : 63'35 - Enregistré en concert en juillet 2010 au Manège de Reims dans le cadre des Flâneries Musicales d'Eté de Reims - Enregistrement & posproduction : Frédéric Briant - Piano Steinway & Sons préparé par Régie Pianos
New CD release on January 10th : Chopin, Sonata for cello & piano op.65 and Trio for piano, violin & cello op.8 with Antoine Pierlot and Abdel Rahman El Bacha. (Transart Live TR171)
Nouveau CD le 10 janvier 2012 : Chopin, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano op. 65 et Trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano op. 8 avec Antoine Pierlot et Abdel Rahman El Bacha. (Transart Live TR171)
Tribute to Dinu Lipatti par Paul Badura-Skoda dans L'Education Musicale de décembre
Un disque en forme d’hommage à l’immense pianiste que fut Dinu Lipatti, pour l’anniversaire des 60 ans de son dernier concert à Besançon, mais aussi, la marque de l’admiration portée à ce maître par le non moins talentueux Paul Badura-Skoda. Un programme associant Bach (Partita n°1) Mozart (Sonate pour piano K. 310) Chopin (Valses, Mazurkas, Ballade). Un enregistrement live datant de 2010, capté au Festival international de Besançon, sur piano Steinway. Un disque magnifique qui nous entraîne bien au-delà des notes.
Digipack 2 CDs - Total time CD1 : 49'26 - Total time CD2 : 42'18 - TOTAL TIME : 1H31'44
Live recorded at the Kursaal of Besançon, 16th of September 2010, Festival International de Musique de Besançon Franche-Comté
Piano Steinway
Padre Soler par Marcela Roggeri dans L'Education Musicale de décembre
Un très bel enregistrement live, capté lors d’un concert au Grand Théâtre de Reims, dans le cadre des Flâneries musicales (2006). Un joli programme qui associe le Fandango, découvert en 1960, et treize sonates choisies parmi les deux cents sonates composées par le moine de la communauté hiéronymite de San Lorenzo de l’Escurial. Une musique ensorcelante, sensuelle et effrénée, mais également virtuose et mélancolique. Une belle interprétation, pleine d’allant qui incite à la danse.
Digipack 1 CD - Durée : 75'04 - Enregistré en concert en août 2006 au Grand Théâtre de Reims, dans le cadre des Flâneries Musicales d'Eté de Reims.
Enregistrement & postproduction : Aline Blondiau pour Musica Numeris
Piano Steinway & Sons préparé par Régie Pianos
New release
Tribute to Dinu Lipatti : Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin
Paul Badura-Skoda pays tribute to the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti, who 60 years ago, gave his last recital in the Kursaal of Besançon. He plays the program of this historic conc
‘I remember Dinu Lipatti.
It was in 1948 that my colleague Peter Wallfisch asked me: « Are you familiar with Chopin’s recording of the Sonata in B minor by Dinu Lipatti ?» I immediately bought the recording and was struck by the music. I had discovered a great pianist who played Chopin with not only an impeccably precise playing technique but with extraordinary sensitivity as well, respectful and worthy. I became a ‘fan’ of Lipatti.
At the time, I wasn’t aware that he was quite ill. I had no idea of the degree of suffering he was experiencing and it was only over time that I learned of the difficulties he endured while playing each concert, and during each recording. I was finally able to hear him play at the Lucerne Festival in August, 1950. He performed Mozart’s Concerto n° 21, KV 467, which was quite incredible because he looked deathly ill, so much was his weakness visible, but only in his physical appearance and not at all in his playing, which was youthful and of an unforgettable beauty. I was totally under his spell. Afterwards, he appeared to be so exhausted, that I, a 22 years old, didn’t dare approach him to congratulate him on his performance. Of course, today I truly regret my timidity, but it’s difficult when one is young and so full of emotion, to speak to someone of such exceptional talent and in whom one senses a genius quality. Listening to the recording of his last recital has always been an exceptional moment for me in which feelings of admiration and sorrow combine. It is so masterful, faultless, and dazzlingly beautiful and, I daresay, a work of ‘purity’, and all of this for the last time. I am very touched and honoured to have been invited to play at Besançon in memory of this musician of such divine talent.’
Paul Badura-Skoda
Digipack 2 CDs - Total time CD1 : 49'26 - Total time CD2 : 42'18 - TOTAL TIME : 1H31'44
Live recorded at the Kursaal of Besançon, 16th of September 2010, Festival International de Musique de Besançon Franche-Comté
Piano Steinway
The last release of Laure Favre-Kahn and Matt Haimovitz for Transart Live in the newspaper L'Union de Reims
Cette version proposée par Laure Favre-Kahn est tout simplement remarquable : dès le premier accord du thème au piano, on reconnaît son style si caractéristique. Le thème vient tout juste d'être énoncé par l'harmonie mais sous les doigts de la jeune pianiste, il prend une tournure autre, plus forte, plus personnelle… et c'est parti. Un dialogue des plus savoureux s'installe entre la soliste et l'orchestre.
Si l'on regrette la présence atténuée des cordes après l'énoncé du premier thème, on ne peut qu'apprécier le parfait équilibre si difficile à acquérir entre l'orchestre et le piano. Les différentes facettes de Schumann défilent : le tendre Eusébius, le vaillant Florestan… Une cadence des plus admirables dans le premier mouvement qui perd sa fonction virtuose pour se transformer en pur moment de grâce. Chaque ligne ressort, sans écraser l'autre. Un jeu rubato qui ne tombe jamais dans les extrêmes. Tendre et savoureux dialogue entre le pupitre des violoncelles et le piano dans le second mouvement. Des marches de quintes modulantes et bouillonnantes dans le troisième mouvement. De la passion mais toujours avec humilité… Un bien beau disque !
Cédrine Zwein
Digipack 1 CD - Durée : 53'15 - Enregistré en concert en juillet 2007 au Grand Théâtre de Reims, dans le cadre des Flâneries Musicales d'Eté de Reims.
NEW CD
Padre Antonio Soler : Fandango & Sonatas
Marcela Roggeri (piano)
released on November 29th
‘I reached Father Antonio Soler and his work using a strange path.
Who would have said that Anais Nin’s diary would indirectly lead me, to the musical work of a priest? This diary, written by an extraordinary and loose woman, affected my adolescence and yet her father and great pianist, Joaquin Nin, was the first to publish the collection of Father Antonio Soler’s sonatas.
Since the very beginning, I was fascinated by this multifaceted priest and by his bewitching music. How mysterious of him to write a Fandango, this sensual and unrestrained dance whereas he was a churchman. However, his music manages to tell us about feelings that are quite away from what you expect a priest to feel.
In his sonatas, you may identify a range of feelings that go from spleen to the dances’ virtuosity, as well as in the jota, danced by people whom Soler, undoubtedly whished he had known.
In order to get his manuscripts, I followed his footsteps until the Escorial, in the Mountains near Madrid. I couldn’t find them (I would hunt them out in Madrid, later), but, led by a monk as proud and devoted as his famous Brother was, I had the great happiness to go for a walk in the monastery park and to see over the cell within which he had lived and composed.
Father Soler, a man who had decided to give up a high life to devote himself to his love for God and his art, managed to preserve a free spirit that we find in his music, filled with cheer and joie de vivre.’
Marcela Roggeri
Digipack 1 CD - Durée : 75'04 - Enregistré en concert en août 2006 au Grand Théâtre de Reims, dans le cadre des Flâneries Musicales d'Eté de Reims.
Enregistrement & postproduction : Aline Blondiau pour Musica Numeris
Piano Steinway & Sons préparé par Régie Pianos
THE STRAD
A successful live account of Schumann's Cello Concerto
An intimate yet well-balanced recording made in front of a mercifully quiet audience supports the chamber-like dialogue between soloist and orchestra in this performance of the Schumann Cello Concerto. The conducting is incisive and expressive, with considerable attention lavished on inner orchestral detail. Matt Haimovitz offers a reading that is both sensitive and virtuosic: there is great poetic intimacy in the Langsam, particularly in the exposed double-stops, and he provides tremendous rhythmic energy in the finale, which is taken here at a steady tempo. A mellow and rewarding timbre from his 1710 Matteo Gofriller adds to the successful cocktail. All in all, this is not quite as enterprising a compilation as Haimovitz's previous release on this label, which coupled the two Haydn concertos with the rarely heard Feuermann arrangement of Mozart's Flute Concerto. That said, however, Laure Favre-Kahn delivers a pretty formidable interpretation of the Piano Concerto to make this a most attractive release.
Le catalogue des artistes Transart Live est entièrement disponible sur la plate-forme de téléchargement légal de Believe
Extrait Figaro Magazine Oct 2007
Laure FAVRE-KAHN - TCHAIKOVSKI - CHOPIN
DIGIPACK 1 CD - Durée : 64'37 - Enregistré en concert en juillet 2006 au Grand Théâtre de Reims avec l'Orchestre de Bretagne (direction : Grzegorz Nowak)
1'10
Chopin Piano Concerto n°2 in F minor, op.21 : Larghetto 2'00
Tchaïkovski Piano Concerto n°1 in B flat minor, op.23 : Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso 1'90
1'10
