Emmanuel Despax – Après un rêve (Belle Époque: Nights at the Piano) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:06 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Après un rêve” is an ode to the French Belle Époque repertoire, depicting the beauty of dreams and the night. The album is an opportunity to hear and perhaps discover rarely played / rarely recorded wonderful works (Chaminade Nocturne, Duparc Aux étoiles, Poulenc Les soirées de Nazelles), alongside central pillars of the rep- ertoire, and includes a world premiere of Despax’s arrangement of Après un rêve. The album is attributed to his grandfather, Jacques Charpentreau, a French poet who adored this repertoire and frequently drew inspiration from the night in his works. Despax has curated some of his poetry, as well as works by other poets he admired to complement this music, taking the listener on an immersive poetic and musical journey through this nocturnal landscape.
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Emmanuel Despax, Miho Kawashima, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15, 16 Waltzes Op. 39 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:57 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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New concerto recording from acclaimed French pianist. Following the acclaimed Bach recording ‘Spira, Spera’ in early 2021, Emmanuel Despax releases a recording of his most treasured piano concerto alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton. The concerto is paired with the 16 Waltzes (op.39) for piano four-hands, performed here with his wife and fellow pianist, Miho Kawashima.
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Emmanuel Despax – Spira, Spera (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:28 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Emmanuel Despax returns to Signum with a programme of JS Bach transcriptions. The title quotes Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (“Breathe, Hope”), brought to Despax’s mind following the news of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, where he had attended many concerts of Bach’s music as a child. Despax describes Bach’s music as being “of such clarity, coherence and expressive power, that it is able to transcend its original medium, and to some extent, style”.
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Emmanuel Despax – Chopin: Preludes – Berceuse – Barcarolle (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:05 minutes | 780 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Chopin the composer has always fascinated me – multifaceted, complex, a man of paradoxes. His music has huge scope yet at the same time is incredibly intimate and poetic. He sometimes has a reputation for being merely a writer of sentimental salon music; I wanted to correct this through this recording, and demonstrate how timeless and relevant, indeed modern his message is…” Emmanuel Despax
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Emmanuel Despax – Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Chamber Versions) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:07 minutes | 1,16 GBGenre: Classical
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Following the acclaimed Brahms recording in 2021, Emmanuel Despax presents his sixth album with Signum Classics. “Chopin’s Piano Concertos are among his first and most significant points of departure, a marked liberation from the constraints of an early but short-lived respect for custom and tradition… I would say that the exceptional nature of this Chopin recording lies in the combination of the chamber music, quintet slimmed-down version of the Piano Concertos complemented by a pianist who plays with an almost epic size and grandeur” (Bryce Morrison).
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