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Aparté
Aparté is a French classical music record label founded in 2010 by Nicolas Bartholomée, director of Little Tribeca recording studios. Bartholomée had earlier founded the recording studio Musica Numeris in the late 1980s, and the Ambroisie label in 1999, later sold to Naïve Records. "Nicolas Bartholomée, directeur artistique de renom, fonde aujourd'hui le label Aparté." Artists Soloists : * Christophe Rousset, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) * Ophélie Gaillard, Ophélie Gaillard (cello) * Michel Dalberto, Michel Dalberto (piano) * Pierre Génisson, Pierre Génisson (clarinet) * Romain Leleu, Romain Leleu (trumpet) * Alexis Kossenko, Alexis Kossenko (flute) * Julien Chauvin, Julien Chauvin (violin) * Atsushi Sakai, Atsushi Sakai (viola da gamba) * Blandine Verlet, Blandine Verlet (harpsichord) * Gottf ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Rousset
Christophe Rousset (; born 12 April 1961) is a French harpsichordist and conducting, conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on Authentic performance, period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and European music of the 17th and 18th centuries and is the founder of the French music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques. Biography Rousset was born in Avignon, France on 12 April 1961. He studied harpsichord at La Schola Cantorum de Paris with Huguette Dreyfus, and subsequently at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Bob van Asperen winning the prestigious First Prize in the 7th Bruges Harpsichord Competition at the age of 22. This was followed by the creation of his own ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, in 1991. At the heart of the ensemble is Rousset's research and expertise across the music of the Baroque music, Baroque, Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic period (music), Romantic periods. Having initially attracted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Talens Lyriques
The French musical ensemble Les Talens Lyriques was created in 1991 in Paris, France, by the harpsichordist and orchestral conductor Christophe Rousset. This instrumental and vocal formation derives its name from the subtitle of '' Les fêtes d'Hébé'' (1739) an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Description The repertoire of Les Talens Lyriques extends from Monteverdi (''L'incoronazione di Poppea'', '' Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ''and ''L'Orfeo''), Francesco Cavalli ('' La Didone'' and '' La Calisto'') to Handel ('' Scipione'', '' Riccardo Primo'', '' Rinaldo'', '' Admeto'', ''Giulio Cesare'', ''Serse'', '' Arianna'', '' Tamerlano'', '' Ariodante'', ''Semele'' and ''Alcina''), taking in on the way Jean-Baptiste Lully ('' Persée'', ''Roland'', '' Bellérophon'', '' Phaéton'', ''Isis'', '' Amadis'' and '' Armide''), Henri Desmarets ('' Vénus et Adonis''), Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville ('' Les fêtes de Paphos''), Cimarosa (''Il Mercato di Malmantile'', '' Il matri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)
Tassis Christoyannis (born Piraeus, 1967) is a Greek operatic baritone. He studied conducting and composing at the Athens Conservatory and singing with Aldo Protti, winning the Aldo Protti Gold Medal in 1994. In addition to operatic roles he is known for his recordings of French melodies with American pianist Jeff Cohen, primarily for the Palazzetto Bru Zane and Aparté. Selected discography *Félicien David: Melodies. Aparté, 2014. * Edouard Lalo: Complete Songs Tassis Christoyannis, Jeff Cohen Aparté – AP110 2CD *Benjamin Godard Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 184910 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera '' Jocelyn''. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin conce ...: Mélodies Tassis Christoyannis, Jeff Cohen Aparté – AP123 * Saint-Saëns: Mélodies Tassis Christoyannis, Jeff Cohen Aparté – AP132 * Fernand de La Tombelle: Mélodies Tassis Christoyannis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Leleu
Romain Leleu (born 7 November 1983) is a French classical trumpeter. He is the elder brother of tuba player Thomas Leleu. Life Born in Lille, Leleu was elected ''révélation soliste instrumental'' by the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2009. Trained by Éric Aubier, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris at age 15, and received in 2003 a First Prize for trumpet with "very good" mention, followed by the Chamber Music prize, unanimously. He then improved his skills with Reinhold Friedrich at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. With a wide repertoire, from Baroque Concertos to the creation of new works, he performs as a soloist in France and abroad, with notably the Orchestre National de Lille, the , thOrchestre d’Auvergne the , the , the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre Régional de Cannes, the French Republican Guard Band, the Dresdner Kapellsolisten, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the Orquesta Sinfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karine Deshayes
Karine Deshayes (; born 25 January 1973) is a French mezzo-soprano. She is noted for her interpretations of bel canto roles (principally Rossini and Bellini). Biography Deshayes was born in Rueil-Malmaison. She studied musicology at the Sorbonne, then singing with Mireille Alcantara at the Conservatoire de Paris,ODB-Opéra (2005) in which she later also specialized in baroque music under Emmanuelle Haïm. She also attended masterclasses of her mentor Régine Crespin. In 1998 she joined the troupe of Opéra National de Lyon. In 2001, she won several prizes in the "Voix d'Or" competition, and first prize in the "Voix Nouvelles" competition in 2002. In October 2006 she made her New York Metropolitan Opera debut with Siébel in Gounod's ''Faust''. In February 2011, she debuted in the role of Urbain in ''Les Huguenots'' at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In 2014 she made her San Francisco Opera debut in ''La Cenerentola''. Awards and honours * Singer of the Year (''Artiste lyrique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Sabata
Xavier Sabata Corominas (born 1976 in Avià, Catalonia) is a Spanish operatic countertenor. Discography *''I Dilettanti'' - cantatas and arias by Emanuele d'Astorga, Giacomo Maccari, Benedetto Marcello, Giovanni Maria Ruggieri. Latinitas nostra, Markellos Chryssikos, Aparté - AP093 *''Handel: Bad Guys'' - Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Aparté - AP048 *''The 5 Countertenors'' - singing Porpora: Tu, spietato, non farai cader vittima (from Ifigenia in Aulide) and Handel: Voi che udite il mio lamento (from Agrippina), with Yuriy Minenko, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Vince Yi, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca - 4788094 *''Amore X Amore, Viaggio in Italia, Handel cantatas'' - Xavier Sabata, Forma Antiqua, Winter and Winter - 9101622 *''Le Jardin des Voix'' - Les Arts Florissants, William Christie *''Cavalli: Miracolo D’amore'' - Love Airs and Duets by Francesco Cavalli. Raquel Andueza (soprano) & Xavier Sabata (countertenor), La Galanía. Anima E Corpo - A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambroisie
Ambroisie is a French classical music record label founded in 1999 by Nicolas Bartholomée, and later sold to Naïve Records. The label released mainly French classical artists,Revue musicale de Suisse romande - Volume 60 2007 "Nous disposions dès le départ de la contribution d'un excellent ingénieur du son, Nicolas Bartholomée, alors en charge du label Ambroisie, avec lequel nous avons d'abord collaboré; aujourd'hui, Ambroisie est lié à Naïve, nous sommes donc ..." some of whom, including Christophe Rousset, later released on Bartholomée's new label Aparté Aparté is a French classical music record label founded in 2010 by Nicolas Bartholomée, director of Little Tribeca recording studios. Bartholomée had earlier founded the recording studio Musica Numeris in the late 1980s, and the Ambroisie label .... References Classical music record labels French record labels Record labels established in 1999 1999 establishments in France {{record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandine Verlet
Blandine Verlet (27 February 1942 – 30 December 2018) was a French harpsichordist and a harpsichord teacher, who is known internationally for her recordings of works by François Couperin. Career Born in Paris into a musical family of art historians and conservators, she was the seventh of ten children, and in 1957, gained admission to the Conservatoire de Paris, studying piano and harpsichord. Having decided on her specialty, she studied harpsichord with Huguette Dreyfus in Paris, Ruggero Gerlin in Siena and with Ralph Kirkpatrick at Yale University. A significant competition prize in Paris in 1963 led to engagements in Italy and Germany. Verlet was widely praised for her recordings of Bach's music, including the ''Goldberg Variations''. She is perhaps best known for having played the music of her compatriot François Couperin, displaying exceptional sensitivity and imagination. Verlet recorded Couperin's complete works in the 1970s and '80s, and in late 2011 she returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandrine Piau
Sandrine Piau (born 5 June 1965) is a French soprano. She is particularly renowned in Baroque music although also excels in Romantic and modernist art songs. She has the versatility to perform works from Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart to Schumann, Debussy, and Poulenc. In addition to an active career in concerts and operas, she is prolific in studio recordings, primarily with Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, and Alpha since 2018. Biography Born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, she initially studied harp and turned to singing at the Conservatoire de Paris. After meeting William Christie, she commenced her exposure to Baroque music and their collaboration notably at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She proceeded further vocal studies with Rachel Yakar and René Jacobs. She collaborated with many of the leading European conductors of the Baroque revival, including Marc Minkowski, Philippe Herreweghe, Paul McCreesh, Alan Curtis, Christophe Rousset, René Jacobs, and Fabio Biondi. Piau also excels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Degout
Stéphane Degout (born 9 June 1975 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a contemporary French baritone. He grew up in Saint-Jean-de-Niost (Ain) and has been living in Lyon since 1995. Biography Trained at the lycée Saint-Exupéry in Lyon, the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon in the class of Margreet Honig, then within the troupe of the opéra national de Lyon, Degout began his career in the role of Papageno in ''The Magic Flute'', within the framework of the Académie européenne de musique of the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 1998. He particularly attended the master classes of Régine Crespin, Gundula Janowitz, Graziella Sciutti and Claudio Desderi. He has been following Gary Magby's teaching from 1998. Since then, he has been performing a varied repertoire at the Opéra national de Lyon, the Paris Opera, the Opéra-Comique, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra national de Montpellier, the Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dasol Kim
Dasol Kim (born 1989) is a South Korean pianist. Born in Busan, Kim started playing the piano at the age of 11, and by 15 won his first international competition and left for Germany. He is a graduate of Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and studied with Arie Vardi. Kim won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in Leipzig in 2010 and in New York in 2015. He won the sixth prize in the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium. Additionally, he won First Prize in the 2011 Epinal International Piano Competition in France, and Second Prize in the 2012 Concours Géza Anda in Switzerland. In 2012 he also won the Kissinger Klavierolymp, the piano competition of the festival Kissinger Sommer. He won a Jury Discretionary Award at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in the United States; Fort Worth Star-Telegram enthusiastically wrote that Kim "dominated" in his preliminary round recital. In 2015, Dasol Kim held the Mortimer Levitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Fuchs
Julie Fuchs (born 24 July 1984) is a French soprano known for her interpretation of light-lyric repertoire. Childhood and studies Born in Meaux, France to a father who was a manager, and a mother who was a swimming teacher, Fuchs grew up in Avignon. At age 7, she began violin lessons and started studying music theory and history at the Avignon Conservatory. After singing a variety of repertoire (pop, jazz...), she was selected to be part of a European choir, "Voices of Europe" with whom she toured Europe, and sang with Björk during the recording of "Which was the Son of" by Arvo Pärt. This experience marked a turning point in her young musical life, as she discovered a desire to explore singing. At age 18, she began private classical voice lessons and acting lessons. In 2006, Fuchs entered the Conservatoire of Paris, considered the top conservatory in France. There, she made her first operatic role debuts as Elle in '' L'amour masqué'' by Messager and Susanna in Mozart's ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
