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Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Georges Bizet: Les Pecheurs de perles (2018)

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Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Georges Bizet: Les Pecheurs de perles (2018)

Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Georges Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 464 Mb | Total time: 109:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC 5186 685 | Recorded: 2017

Les Pêcheurs de Perles is best known for its glorious duet, but Georges Bizet’s opera has much more to offer. This live recording more than ever brings out the brilliance of this oriental story about love, duty and friendship. In the last 150 years, Bizet’s piece has mainly been heard in editions that stray from the composer’s original composition. This album – on the contrary - offers the first recording in history of the 1863 premiere version, reconstructed and published by Bärenreiter in 2015. Les Pêcheurs de perles contains a quintessentially French blend of lyricism, exoticism and drama, and the four soloists (Julie Fuchs as Leïla, Cyrille Dubois as Nadir, Florian Sempey as Zurga and Luc Bertin-Hugault as Nourabad) belong to today’s best performers for this specialist repertoire.

Camille Thomas, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Saint-Saëns & Offenbach (2017)

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Camille Thomas, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille -  Saint-Saëns & Offenbach (2017)

Camille Thomas, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Saint-Saëns & Offenbach (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 68:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 00289 479 7520 | Recorded: 2017

For her debut album on the yellow label Camille has chosen music full of youthful invention – uplifting and positive. She brings her own sensitive interpretation to the French Romantic works for cello and orchestra by Saint-Saëns and Offenbach, including the former’s First Cello Concerto, a masterpiece of its genre, and a delightful excerpt from the latter’s Harmonies des bois “Les Larmes de Jacqueline”. The album was recorded with the Orchestre National de Lille and Alexandre Bloch, and also includes guest appearances by tenor Rolando Villazón and violinist Nemanja Radulović.

Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch & Amihai Grosz - Bartók: Concerto pour orchestre - Concerto pour alto (2023)

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Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch & Amihai Grosz - Bartók: Concerto pour orchestre - Concerto pour alto (2023)

Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch & Amihai Grosz - Bartók: Concerto pour orchestre - Concerto pour alto (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 241 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | 01:01:30
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics

Exiled in the United States since October 1940, Bela Bartok was short of money and worn out by leukaemia. Nevertheless, a few weeks' respite from the disease in August 1943 enabled him to fulfil a commission from the conductor Serge Koussevitzky. For a fee of a thousand dollars, he quickly wrote the Concerto for Orchestra, which was to be premiered at Boston's Symphony Hall on 1 December 1944. Koussevitzky was very enthusiastic about the Concerto, even describing it as 'the best orchestra piece of the last 25 years'. It was the success of this score that prompted the violist William Primrose to ask the Hungarian composer to write a work for him. Bartok had little experience of the instrument and was only convinced when he heard the soloist perform the Walton Concerto on the radio. The score was initially planned in four movements, but the composer's death reduced it to three. Amihai Grosz (a founder member of the Jerusalem Quartet, now principal viola of the Berliner Philharmoniker) joins the Orchestre National de Lille and Alexandre Bloch for this recording.

Véronique Gens, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Francis Poulenc: La Voix humaine (2022)

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Véronique Gens, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Francis Poulenc: La Voix humaine (2022)

Véronique Gens, Alexandre Bloch, Orchestre National de Lille - Francis Poulenc: La Voix humaine (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 70:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 899 | Recorded: 2021

La version de Véronique Gens de La Voix humaine est très attendue ! Cette « tragédie lyrique en un acte » est faite pour elle, son sens du verbe et son intensité dramatique sont au rendez-vous de ce monologue composé par Poulenc en 1958, sur un texte de Jean Cocteau. On est bien loin ici du Poulenc « léger » des années 1920. Cocteau lui fait d’ailleurs le plus beau des compliments : « Cher Francis, tu as fixé, une fois pour toutes, la façon de dire mon texte. » Véronique Gens confie avoir toujours voulu interpréter et enregistrer cette pièce ; c’est maintenant chose faite avec ses complices de l’Orchestre National de Lille et de son directeur musical, Alexandre Bloch. Également présente sur l’album, la Sinfonietta, qui est en fait une véritable symphonie, mais, comme l’écrit Nicolas Southon, « il est indéniable que l’œuvre – commandée par la BBC à Poulenc en 1947 - possède une fraîcheur et une liberté de ton qui justifient son titre ».

Daniel Müller-Schott, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Alexandre Bloch - Four Visions of France (2021)

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Daniel Müller-Schott, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Alexandre Bloch - Four Visions of France (2021)

Daniel Müller-Schott, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Alexandre Bloch - Four Visions of France (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 285 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:48
Classical | Label: Orfeo

It is not by chance that luminous textures and sensual orchestral colors are considered essential features of French music. Its history features great names renowned for their art of instrumentation and sensitive use of timbres, who include the composers of the cello concertos on this recording: Camille Saint-Saëns, whose instrumentation technique always combines color with transparency, Édouard Lalo, who was highly esteemed by Claude Debussy for the wealth of color in his works, and Arthur Honegger, who painted striking soundscapes not only in his Cello Concerto but in his works without a large orchestra as well. Often it is the fine shadings and delicate transitions that characterize the tone colors of French music and are responsible for its delightful charm. Daniel Müller-Schott – Opus Klassik award winner 2019 – appealingly combines five works from the French sound kaleidoscope on his newest album with the DSO Berlin and Alexandre Bloch ‘Four Visions of France’.

Orchestre National de Lille & Alexandre Bloch - Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2020)

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Orchestre National de Lille & Alexandre Bloch - Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2020)

Orchestre National de Lille & Alexandre Bloch - Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 319 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:14:14
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Alexandre Bloch, who has been Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lille since 2016, has chosen to devote a whole season of concerts to Mahler's symphonies. The Seventh (1904-05) is the most rarely recorded of the cycle unjustly, because this work later nicknamed Song of the Night testifies as clearly as its companions to the metaphysical grandiloquence that haunted Mahler during its gestation. From the gloomy Adagio of the first movement to the thundering Rondo that concludes the work, Alexandre Bloch and his orchestra lead us from the anguish of twilight to the ecstasies of dawn.