Release Date: 28 February 2025
Label: Pentatone Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8717306263573
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Le temps des lilas
Description
Le temps des lilas is an ode to Romanticism, a love song and a nostalgic reflection on the bittersweet beauty of lost happiness. Dedicated to the music of Ernest Chausson, this album oscillates between passion and melancholy, wonder and nostalgia. The Concert Op. 21, a masterly work on the borderline between chamber music and orchestra, is carried by Pierre Fouchenneret's magnetic violin and David Violi's colorful piano. I Giardini also deliver a previously unpublished version of Poeme Op. 25, reworked for violin, piano and string quartet. The album closes with Pauline Buet's equally sensitive retelling of Chausson and Barbara's 'Temps des/du lilas', using cello in the former and singing voice in the latter. Barbara's song and Chausson's melody stand as a simple, timeless tribute to the magic of past moments and the fragility of human existence. Le temps des lilas is I Giardini's first full-length album for PENTATONE, following an already rich discography: Nuits (which has been awarded the prestigious Diapason d'Or), Bleu, Shaw and Faure, an EP released with PENTATONE in 2024.
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Netherlands Radio Choir, Benjamin Goodson
Czech Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
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Francesco Piemontesi, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Manfred Honeck
Alexander Boldachev
Samuel Vargas, Kevin Korth, Emil Miland, Miles Graber, Kevin Rivard, Kevin Korth, Jerome Simas,
The Hague String Trio
Sylvia Huang; Boris Kusnezow
Quartz Saxophone Quartet
Margherita Santi/Ekaterina Valiulina/Giulia Panchieri
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Ensemble Labirinto Armonico
