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Release Date: 11 April 2025
Label: Autre Distribution
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3770036919009
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Folksongs - Tour Du Monde
Description
Founded within the Conservatoire de Toulouse by its current director, Mark Opstad, nearly 20 years ago, the Maitrise de Toulouse received the Bettencourt Prize for choral music in 2017 at the Academie des Beaux-Arts.
The Maitrise de Toulouse has built up a discography composed of children's and young adult voices that showcases its varied repertoire, from the Renaissance to the contemporary.
This eighth album by the Maitrise de Toulouse is devoted solely to arrangements for folk music choir. The program's journey begins in Occitania and passes through southern Europe, the Nordic and Baltic countries, and Eastern Europe, before heading to the Middle East, Africa, the Far East, and Australia. It then crosses the Pacific and then goes up South and Central America to the United States, where the folk melody The Road Home brings us back to France!
Each piece is an arrangement of a folk melody sung in its original language, no fewer than seventeen languages, which is probably unheard of on disc. Together, they constitute a program of enormous contrasts and vivid musical colors, ranging from a simple four-part choir to a large double choir.
Tracklisting
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
Murray Head
Robin Verheyen
Thomas Naim
Mark Opstad
Jupiter & Okwess
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
Sylvain Rifflet
Mark Opstad
Stefan Schmidt
Real Camara; Officium Ensemble
Katharina Sames; Mari Inoue
Joshua Rupley
Duo Wang-Zadra
Alexandra Sostmann
David Korevaar
