Valérie Milot – Aquarelles (2012/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:01:58 minutes | 959 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Analekta
“A watercolour is not a story, it’s the translation of a sensation, a memory, a state of mind.” (Hugo Pratt)
With its ability to delicately suggest, obliquely seduce, and transport us to an “elsewhere” whose quaint, old-fashioned colours have nevertheless lost nothing of their power, is not the harp the perfect instrument to transform beloved works from the piano and symphonic repertoire into a series of elusive tableaux? Harpist Valérie Milot answers a definitive “Yes!” with several interpretations of works by Satie, Smetana, Debussy, and Liszt.
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Stéphane Tétreault & Valérie Milot – Transfiguration (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:29 minutes | 1011 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.
Transfiguration is an album and concert experience featuring harpist Valerie Milot and cellist Stephane Tetreault performing works by contemporary composers in a spellbinding cinematic digital environment.
The unifying concept behind the album is that all elements can be transformed into a single symbiotic entity.
Colleagues and friends on similar musical paths, Valerie Milot and Stphane Tetreault first collaborated ten years ago. Valerie, a harpist with the soul of a rebel, knows how to make her art accessible.
A sought-after soloist, she performs in numerous concerts with prestigious orchestras. Starting with the 2008 Prix d’Europe, she has won countless awards. In addition to recording eight albums and getting millions of hits online, she teaches at the Montreal Conservatory of Music. Valerie plays one of only thirteen Salvi “Apollonia” harps in existence worldwide, owned by arts patron Roger Dubois and graciously lent to her by Drummondville’s Canimex company.
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Valérie Milot – Orbis (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:08 minutes | 928 MB | Genre: Classical, Chamber Music
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | © Groupe Analekta, Inc.
Canadian harpist Valérie Milot chose the title of this album to acknowledge the circle of valued musical colleagues she has worked with over the years and to reference the loop as a musical concept, a seemingly simple melodic or rhythmical motif that serves as both framework and source of inspiration. The programme features six complementary approaches, ranging from music by John Cage, Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa to the premiere of violinist Antoine Bareil’s Castille 1382, written especially for Milot. (more…)
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