Archives des Orchid Classics - PAN M 360

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Timothy Redmont, dir. – Beyond

Frédéric Cardin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:56:26 +0000

This album could also be called ‘Wonders of the Modern Orchestra,’ because all the works on the programme, also world premieres, are resplendent jewels of contemporary orchestration, all in a neo-romantic style reminiscent of great film music. Listening to Thomas Adès’s Three-Piece Suite from Powder Her Face, one is struck by the similarities with the […]

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Constantine Caravassilis – From Sappho’s Lyre

Frédéric Cardin — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:11:07 +0000

I didn’t know what to expect when I began listening to this contemporary multimedia cantata by a Canadian composer of Greek origin whom I didn’t know at all. Well, I was intrigued and seduced from the start by this modern encounter with the famous poetess Sappho of Mytilene, who lived on Lesbos island, Greece, in the […]

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Love & Death

Frédéric Cardin — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:58:06 +0000

Life and death. A dialogue of contrasts just as absolute as the masterpieces on the programme of this album by the English string quartet Navarra. That said, if one has to be alive to interpret and appreciate these jewels of the repertoire, the subject of the pieces chosen is always, without exception, death. A death […]

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