Anna Stéphany & Labyrinth Ensemble - Berio, Ravel & Falla: Black Is the Colour (2018) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Folk Songs: Black Is the Colour
02. Folk Songs: I Wonder as I Wander
03. Folk Songs: Loosin yelav
04. Folk Songs: Rossignolet du bois
05. Folk Songs: A la femminisca
06. Folk Songs: La donna ideale
07. Folk Songs: Ballo
08. Folk Songs: Motettu de tristura
09. Folk Songs: Malurous qu’o uno fenno
10. Folk Songs: Lo fiolaire
11. Folk Songs: Azerbaijan Love Song
12. Introduction et Allegro in G-Flat Major, M. 46
13. Histoires naturelles, M. 50: I. Le paon en Fa Majeur
14. Histoires naturelles, M. 50: II. Le grillon en La Mineur
15. Histoires naturelles, M. 50: III. Le cygne en Si Majeur
16. Histoires naturelles, M. 50: IV. Le martin-pêcheur en Fa Dièse Majeur
17. Histoires naturelles, M. 50: VI. La pintade en Mi Majeur
18. Psyché

Alpha continues its collaboration with the Festival d’Aix en-Provence and its Academy, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2018. We invite you to discover artists of great talent who take us on a trip to Auvergne, Sicily, Armenia and Azerbaijan thanks to Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, to Andalusia with Falla’s Psyché on a poem of Georges-Jean Aubry, and to the world of Jules Renard with Ravel’s Histoires naturelles. The last-named are recorded in a version for chamber ensemble: ‘Since Ravel gave Manuel Rosenthal to make an arrangement for large orchestra which we found rather overblown, we set out to find a “ chasseur d’images” (to quote the title of one of Renard’s Histoires naturelles poems) who could transcribe the work without losing its intimate, delicate aspect...

We hope you will be as charmed as we are by Arthur Lavandier’s work, which beautifully conveys the immensely refined timbres and nuances of Ravel’, says the oboist Clément Noël, a member of the Swiss Ensemble Labyrinth.

Anna Stéphany is a true revelation, performing this programme with the technique, the sensuality and the emotional impact that earned her a huge triumph in Mozart at last summer’s Glyndebourne Festival.

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