Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

My first contact with Brazil was Salvador de Bahia. From the beginning of my stay, the capital of the State of Bahia generated two emotional shocks. Walking through its historic center quickly led me...

The mandala, a medium used primarily for Buddhist meditation, is a diagram painted or traced on the ground with grains of rice or coloured powders, giving it an ephemeral character. As a symbol of the...

My first contact with Brazil was Salvador de Bahia. From the beginning of my stay, the capital of the State of Bahia generated two emotional shocks. Walking through its historic center quickly led me...

The mandala, a medium used primarily for Buddhist meditation, is a diagram painted or traced on the ground with grains of rice or coloured powders, giving it an ephemeral character. As a symbol of the...

During my stay in Argentina, particularly in Buenos Aires, I attended a tango show. My seat was in the front row. Being so close to the dancers and musicians gave me an intense feeling that I hadn't e...

During my stay in Argentina, particularly in Buenos Aires, I attended a tango show. My seat was in the front row. Being so close to the dancers and musicians gave me an intense feeling that I hadn't e...

Das Bild der rasenden Furien als Topos durchzieht seit Jahrtausenden die Gedanken- und Bilderwelt der Menschheit und inspirierte und faszinierte unzählige Künstler:innen. Dieser Vorstellung zugrunde l...

Details: 1 flute (petite flûte), 1 flute, 1 flute (alto flute), 1 oboe, 1 oboe d'amore (English horn), 1 clarinet, 1 basset horn, 1 bass clarinet, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, percussioni...

With Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck stood against more than a century and a half of Italian tradition and became the unavoidable figure of the history of opera. In collaboration with Calzabigi, he refused t...

Adapted by Philippe Desriaux from Metastasio's work, Démophon's libretto isn't a mere translation of the original text, but rather a paraphrase preserving its poetic sense. Many modifications occurred...

Hérold's second, and last, symphony, the 2nd Symphony in D major, was composed in Naples in May 1814. In a letter to his mother, the composer writes: "Many greetings to Mr. Méhul. I have just written...

When Azémia ou Les Sauvages is created at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris on May 3rd, 1787, the opéra comique is a genre in full development, fostered by the uprising publishing industry, the travellin...

Faced with the evolution of the symphony prompted by Beethoven at the beginning of the 19th century, many composers turned away from this genre, considering his nine symphonies as an unsurpassable ide...

Le Colporteur ou L'Enfant du bûcheron (The Peddler or The Lumberjack's Son) is the second of Onslow's three operas; it was composed in 1826 and first performed at the Opéra-Comique on 22 November 1827...

The Second Concerto adopts the key of D minor for the first and third movements, and B flat major for the second. The fairly full orchestra consists of 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and strin...

Alfred de Musset's L'Andalouse is part of a cycle of French art songs for piano and voice entitled "Poésies non choisies", in which we interweave compositions that we have undertaken for two or four h...

The arrangement of this short aria antica attributed to Pergolesi was commissioned for the concert-tribute to Enrico Caruso held in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées on 15 June 2009. Intended fo...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, the Chœur de sylphes (Chorus of sylphs) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of t...

John Milton's "Paradise lost" begins with the vision of Satan and his fainted angels in the burning lake of Hell after their vertiginous fall into the great Abyss. It is only after a few chapters that...

John Milton's "Paradise lost" begins with the vision of Satan and his fainted angels in the burning lake of Hell after their vertiginous fall into the great Abyss. It is only after a few chapters that...

With Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck stood against more than a century and a half of Italian tradition and became the unavoidable figure of the history of opera. In collaboration with Calzabigi, he refused t...

In 1792, the political upheavals in Paris came along with an aesthetic revolution. Artists demonstrated a deliberate, at times opportunistic, attempt to turn their backs on the melodic refinements and...

Details: 4 flutes (two of which play the small and bass flutes), 2 oboes, 1 English horn, 4 clarinets (the third plays the bass clarinet and the fourth the contrabass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 1 contraba...

Far from being an isolated work in Max d'Ollone's production, L'Été (Summer) belongs with Hymne, Dans la tempête and Sous-Bois to a set of four chorus written in the particular context of the competit...

Far from being an isolated work in Max d'Ollone's production, L'Été (Summer) belongs with Hymne, Dans la tempête and Sous-Bois to a set of four chorus written in the particular context of the competit...