Quatuor Ebene (Quatuor Ébène) With Stacey Kent & Bernard Lavilliers - Brazil - 2014

Quatuor Ebene (Quatuor Ébène) With Stacey Kent Bernard Lavilliers / Brazil
Жанр: brazilian, bossa-nova
Носитель: CD
Страна-производитель диска: EU
Год издания: 2014
Издатель (лейбл): ERATO
Номер по каталогу: 0 825646 320462
Страна: France
Аудиокодек: WavPack (*.wv)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 01:06:38
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Треклист:
01. O' gringo
02. So nice
03. I can't help it
04. Ana Maria
05. Fragile
06. Guitar song
07. Aguas de marços
08. Bebê
09. The ice hotel
10. Salomé
11. Libertango
12. Smile
13. Brazil

Лог создания рипа

Доп. информация: Recording Date
August 20, 2013 - August 25, 2013
Release Date
April 28, 2014

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Within a decade of forming, the Quatuor Ebène transformed from a talented but youthful and virtually unknown string quartet to a highly respected ensemble with a prestigious recording deal and a touring schedule that included regular performances at major concert venues across Europe and North America. Indeed, and its dabbling into crossover repertory along the way has hardly hurt its rise, and its ability to vocalize on occasion has also added to its popularity and uniqueness. But that uniqueness doesn't end there: the crossover fare is typically performed in arrangements made by the Quatuor Ebène players, arrangements frequently sourced in film music that have drawn much acclaim for their imagination and craftsmanship. The group's take on the score from Pulp Fiction and the song Streets of Philadelphia, from Philadelphia, are two examples of more popular crossover hits. But it is the ensemble's classical side that has earned it its greatest successes, especially in performances of works by Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Borodin, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Bartók, and scores of others. Quatuor Ebène has recorded for such labels as EMI/Virgin Classics and EuroArts.
The Quatuor Ebène formed in 1999 when the players were students at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory. The members of the ensemble are: Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure, violins; Mathieu Herzog, viola; and Raphaël Merlin, cello.
The ensemble remained relatively little known until capturing first prize at the 2004 ARD International Competition in Munich. Groundbreaking as that was, the Quatuor Ebène added icing to the cake the following year with the 2005 Belmont Prize from the Forberg-Schneider Foundation.
In 2006, the quartet performed as part of the BBC's New Generation Artists scheme. That same year it made its first recording, a disc of three Haydn quartets, on the Mirare label. From 2007, the Quatuor Ebène have been regularly touring Europe, the U.S., and Canada. In 2008 the ensemble made its first recording under a new association with Virgin Classics, a disc of the quartets by Debussy, Fauré, and Ravel that would go on to receive the 2009 Gramophone award for Record of the Year.
Quatuor Ebène's first all-crossover album was issued by Virgin Classics in 2010, a disc that featured arrangements of such numbers as Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Streets of Philadelphia, with additional artists Natalie Dessay, Richard Héry, and others. The ensemble's busy 2011 schedule included tours of France, Germany, Ireland, and England.

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The New York Times has described the Ebènes as “a string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band”, and it’s true that the innovative young ensemble is as riveting in Ravel (2009 Gramophone Recording of the Year) as in sophisticated arrangements of pop and film music.
They continue to surprise with a new album inspired by the irresistible rhythms of Brazil. But the Ebène Quartet don’t stop at Jobim, the father of bossa nova; they found echoes of bossa and samba where you would least expect them — resulting in their own arrangements of the Michael Jackson hit I Can’t Help It and Sting’s Fragile, among others. “We are always fascinated by the links between apparently unconnected pieces of music as we explore different aesthetic worlds,” cellist Raphaël Merlin explains.
To that end, the intrepid French foursome invited American jazz chanteuse Stacey Kent to lend her light yet soulful vocals to the album — “a dazzling woman with a radiant voice and a great lover of Brazilian music, who welcomed us into her world,” enthuses violist Mathieu Herzog. She is joined by the iconic French singer Bernard Lavilliers, himself an adventurer “whose name is synonymous with the rhythms and scents of Latin culture”.
Even with songs in English, French and Portuguese — and a Brazilian choir and percussionists joining the fray — the Ebènes’ impassioned, nuanced playing comes to the fore in moments for the quartet alone: a detour to Argentina with Piazzolla’s Libertango and a joyous rendition of the theme from Terry Gilliam’s celebrated film Brazil.
“When someone mentions quartets and chamber music, this isn’t normally what comes to mind,” says Lavilliers. “These four are anything but fixed in their ways, and they’re completely mad about Latin music — and other kinds of music as well

Состав

Quatuor Ébène:
Pierre Colombet, violon
Gabriel Le Magadure, violon
Mathieu Herzog, alto
Raphaël Merlin, violoncelle
With:
Stacey Kent, voice
Bernard Lavilliers, voice
Marco Valle, voice
jim Tomlison, saxophone
Mino Cinelu, drums