The independent music group Outhere produces around one hundred recordings every

year, ranging from early music to contemporary, by way of jazz and world music.
These are released all over the world in both
physical and digital form. Outhere Musics
success is founded on the consolidation and
articulation of labels with a strong individual
identity, which today number nine: Aeon,
Alpha, Arcana, Fuga Libera, Outnote, Phi,
Rame, Ricercar, and Zig-Zag Territoires. The
groups philosophy gives pride to place to the
quality of its relationship with the artists, meticulous attention to the realisation of each project, and its openness to new forms of diffusion
and relations with the public.

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Aeon p.4
Alpha p.6
Arcana p.12
Fuga Libera p.14
Phi p.15
Rame p.16
Ricercar p.17
Zig-Zag Territoires p.21
Outnote p.26

Ludwig van Beethoven

AECD 1438

Late String Quartets Op. 130 & Grosse Fuge Op. 133
Brentano String Quartet

014
Release 09/2

The Brentano Quartet delivers the third volume of Beethovens Late Quartets for
Aeon, this disc featuring Op. 130 and 133. The relation between form and language
seems to haunt all the writing of his Quartet in B flat major. Indeed, the composer
struggles with the enigmatic question of our intimate experience in relation to music and the sense of musical composition. On the other hand, in the Grosse Fuge,
Op. 133, Beethoven the visionary proclaims his unshakeable faith in a world like a
will facing menace and chaos. The pertinence of the struggle marks the structure
and character of every page of the Quartet, one of the composers most inspired.
Impossible not to be impressed by the sharpness of the stroke, the clarity of the
discourse and the intensity of the affects. Brilliant virtuosos, the superb mastery
of the Brentanos has made them famous and displays its full power in the release
of this final volume.

Wolfgang Rihm Luigi Nono

AECD 1441

Passion Texts

Exaudi
James Weeks, cond.

Release 10/2

014

The musics of Luigi Nono and Wolfgang Rihm have often been linked. Nonos late
style, a world of sharply-etched, strikingly sparse sound forms set against a background of silence, made a deep impression on his younger colleague, whose works
from the mid-1980s onwards show the clear imprint of the Italian masters visionary clarity. This recording of works for differing ensembles of solo voices shows
another trait the two hold in common: a passionate engagement with their fellow
human-beings, giving rise to a music of searing and shocking directness. The human soul stripped to a mouth, a mouth opened in transcendental suffering - of the
relatives of the disappeared in Argentina, of Jesus on the Cross - or closed in defiant compassion for the victims of AIDS. A mouth that can also sing of the violent
cataclysms of creative ecstasy and the quiet lyricism of a peaceful Utopia. Recorded over a period of five years, EXAUDIs new disc is a labour of love, featuring
music that has been part of the ensembles lifeblood since its foundation, each
performance thoroughly embedded in heart and voice before being committed
to disc.

Bernard Foccroulle: Works for historic organs

AECD 1440

Bernard Foccroulle, organ

Release 10/2

014

2 CDs
AECD 1452

As an organist, I have quite often been struck by the exceptional beauty of historic
organs whose very pronounced personality often contrasts sharply with the standardized instruments built in the 20th century. However, some of these old instruments impose such constraints (reduced range of the manual[s], limited or non-existent pedal organ, unequal temperament, fairly limited composition of stops, etc.)
that they make possible only a very specific repertoire.
Most of the works composed in the 20th century are simply not playable on these
instruments, which is why, back in the 1980s, certain organists and composers
began to generate a contemporary literature that takes into account the constraints and specificities of these splendid survivors from the past.
Capriccio sopra re-fa-mi-sol is the first piece in this cycle. I subsequently wrote
others for historic instruments, almost always choosing an earlier composer as a
point of reference. On a whole, these compositions propose a modern-day look at
organ music and organ building in Europe since the Renaissance.
(Bernard Foccroulle)

Gyrgy Ligeti - Bla Bartk

LIGETI : Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto

BARTK : Contrasts, Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, cond.

Release 11/2

014

One can find numerous links between Bartk and Ligeti, beginning with the land of
their birth, Hungary, as well as the important place they both occupy in 20th-century music.
It is with this set, devoted to chamber works by Bla Bartk and Gyrgy Ligetis
concertos, that the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Aeon are initiating their collaboration that will take the form of an EIC Collection within the labels catalogue.
This recording is also the first under the EICs new musical director, Mathias
Pintscher.
In a few months, after a CD devoted to works by Matthias Pintscher, this will be
followed by other CDs or sets illustrating the diversity and extreme quality of the
collaborations and interpretations by the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
www.ensembleinter.com

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Ludwig van Beethoven

ALPHA 607

Three Last Sonatas - Sonatas op. 109, 110 & 111

Eric Le Sage, piano

014
Release 09/2

Of Beethoven and his worlds in music, some will remember more the herald of pure
music or of programme music, the Dionysian bearer of joy, or the man suffering from
suicidal impulses, the builder or the destroyer. In any event, the creator stopped
writing piano sonatas in 1822, the year of E.T.A. Hoffmanns death. All the transgressions that are propounded by Beethovens Promethean output would be unable to
conceal his faithfulness to the ideals of Aufklrung, his classic desire to lead, beyond the asperities, to a resolution and, beyond darkness, to light.
(Brigitte Franois Sappey)
Eric Le Sage approaches this cycle with the sensitive vision of a great interpreter,
henceforth renowned for his complete Schumann and Faur recordings.

Tobias Hume

ALPHA 197

Harke, harke! Lyra violls Humors & Delights

Les Basses Runies
Bruno Cocset, cond.
Guido Balestracci

With this new recording, Bruno Cocsets Les Basses Runies propose a journey back
to 17th-century England, centring on the work of Tobias Hume, an emblematic musician of the viola da gamba and, more precisely, the lyra violl.

014
Release 09/2

This exploration in terms of music as much as of sound, presents three instruments

that have just come from the hands of instrument-maker Charles Rich (seconded
by Friederike Dangel).
A distinguished guest, the talented Italian gambist Guido Balestracci, plays a selection of solo pieces by the famous soldier-composer.
The Lyra violl is also accompanist for pieces composed for a dessus and Lyra
violl, in which case Bruno Cocset plays his little bastarda alto viol. The continuo,
subtle and lush, brings together Bertrand Cuiller on the two harpsichords (one
strung with brass wire, the other with gut strings), and Richard Myron on the
large bass in G.

Franois Couperin
Louis-Nicolas Clrambault

ALPHA 957

Leons De Tnbres, Miserere

Le Pome Harmonique
Claire Leffillitre, Isabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani
Vincent Dumestre, cond.

014
Release 09/2

It seemed natural for Le Pome Harmonique, which has already recorded some
of the greatest works in the 17th-century French sacred repertoire, to contribute
to Alphas Versailles Collection by giving its vision of Franois Couperins Leons
de Tnbres. To this it adds a work as masterful as it is forgotten: Louis-Nicolas
Clrambaults Miserere.
The Leons de Tnbres were written by Franois Couperin for the Holy Week liturgies of 1714, at the Abbey of Longchamp. They take up the Old Testament text from
the Lamentations of Jeremiah, wherein the prophet deplores the destruction of
Jerusalem by the Babylonians. In the Catholic tradition, they symbolize the solitude of Christ, abandoned by his apostles.
Isabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani, Claire Lefillitre and Vincent Dumestre give us
an interpretation in which the affect is, of course, at the service of a rhetoric appropriate for the period and this repertoire whilst fully exploiting the lyric beauty
of these works.

Solve et Coagula

ALPHA 537

An opera by Guido Morini

Marco Beasley
Accordone
Guido Morini, cond.

This new recording pays tribute to an ill-known, mysterious figure of 18th-century

Naples: Prince Raimondo di Sangro. A soldier, scientist, poet, alchemist and freemason, he bequeathed us a palace and a magnificent chapel, the site of a tragedy that
was at the origin of the murder committed by the great composer Gesualdo.

014
Release 10/2

This chapel still houses artistic and scientific works both beautiful and mysterious, which serve as an initiatory itinerary for the visitor. The intuition of Guido
Morini and Marco Beasley was to use this itinerary and make it the dramatic
framework for a singular, innovative work that they have entitled Solve et Coagula, an alchemist maxim meaning Dissolve and congeal. A veritable dramma
per musica, this work calls on different historical creative processes in order to
let us discover a unique story, featuring the rhythm of tarantellas, ostinati and
mysterious fugues...
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DVD
Alpha 704

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Comdie-ballet by Molire, music by Jean-Baptiste Lully

Directed by Denis Podalyds (member of the Comdie Franaise)
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Conducted by Christophe Coin

In Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Molire draws the portrait of an adventurer of the

mind whose sole desire is to escape his status as a commoner and set foot on territories from which he is excluded... the discovery of a terra incognita that, by his
birth, is off-limits to him.

014
Release 10/2

In choosing to return the play to its original form as a comdie-ballet with music
by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Denis Podalyds convokes all the arts. With this theatrical
fte costumed by Christian Lacroix, he aims at an apotheosis of the senses, in
fact just as the plays protagonist longed for.
Conducting the La Rvrence ensemble, Christophe Coin gives full meaning
and depth to the musical score that Jean-Baptiste Lully created for this play at
Molires instigation.

Au Sainct Nau

ALPHA 198

Carols and parodies from the Renaissance

Ensemble Clment Janequin
Dominique Visse, cond.

014
Release 10/2

The programme of this recording seeks to reproduce the full diversity of music associated with Christmastide at the time of the Renaissance. Brought together here
are both aspects, secular and religious, of this great holiday: an almost pagan joy
expressed with simplicity by the nave, touching poetry of anonymous songs, as
well as the mystery evoked with a more spiritual gravity at church, by the celebrations linked to this moment.

These repertoires reflect the various aspects that, in the Renaissance, take on
a creative folk fervour, or a more scholarly fervour as Christmas approaches. In
any event, the season is one of exultation, as attests the custom of crying Noel
(Noel, Nau or Noe) on the occasion of any signification of public joy. May this
recording contribute to conveying an appealing, colourful and joyous image of
these two aspects!

3 CDs
ALPHA 822

Chansons Dautrefois

Songs, laments and romances from the France of yesteryear

Le Pome Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, cond.

Vincent Dumestre and his Pome Harmonique invite us to the sources of the songs,
laments and romances of the France of the past. Reproducing the pronunciation of
the time and combining various early, and sometimes rustic, instruments with the
voices, the programme will appeal to everyone, young and old alike.

Release 10/2

014

3 CDs
ALPHA 823

Here we hear songs passed down from generation to generation, some well known,
some forgotten, but always sensitive to the heart of a broad public today... Alpha
proposes discovering all the recordings of these treasures, brought together here
at a low price.

Les Witches

Nobodys Jig
Manuscrit de Susanne Van Soldt
Lord Gallaways Delight
Les Witches

Les Witches follow the trail of songs and dances as one follows the course of a
river...

Release 10/2

014

Sometimes visiting the universe of Court, sometimes that of the tavern, this set
brings together enchanting tunes and evocative titles that, by evoking characters
and places, relate veritable pages of history.
With Les Witches more boisterous than ever!

3 CDs
ALPHA 821

CPE Bach

Trio Sonatas - Flute Concertos

Alexis Kossenko, traverso & cond.
Arte Dei Suonatori
Les Ambassadeurs

For the 300th anniversary of C.P.E. Bachs birth, Alpha proposes discovering the
work of one of the Cantors sons from an original angle: that of the Alexis Kossenkos flute.

014
Release 10/2

DVD
Alpha 705

In this boxed set, Alpha has brought together the complete Flute Concertos as
well as the marvellous Trio Sonatas, masterpieces that allow for discovering Carl
Philipp Emmanuels close connection with the traverso, and also perceiving Alexis Kossenkos strong ties with this brilliant composer.

Claudio Monteverdi
Vespers For The Virgin

Silvia Frigato, Emanuela Galli, Nicholas Mulroy, Krystian Adam

Monteverdi Choir - English Baroque Soloists
Choeur denfants de la Matrise du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, cond.

First performed in 1610, Monteverdis Vespro della beata Vergine constitutes one of
the major works in musical literature. It is also the work for which Sir John Eliot Gardiner founded the Monteverdi Choir about which Le Monde wrote: ... if there were a
Nobel Prize for choruses, the Monteverdi Choir would have to be the winner.
It was during the exceptional concert given in March 2014 in the Chapelle Royale
at Versailles, in the framework of this ensembles 50th anniversary, that this DVD
was made.

Release 10/2

10

014

In the Chapelle Royale, John Eliot Gardiner wished to reproduce the musical spatialization that characterized Venetian music and was able to do so by using the
specific architecture and different levels of the chapel. The division of Monteverdis work into two choirs, as well as its numerous musical dialogues and echo
effects, found a particularly propitious architectural and acoustic setting at Versailles.

Joseph Haydn - Christoph Willibald Gluck

ALPHA 670

Symphonies Nos. 1, 39 & 49 La Passione Don Juan

Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, cond.
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE JOSEPH HAYDN FOUNDATION - BASEL

Symphony No. 49 is of dramatic inspiration, as is the finale of the 39th (with four
horns!) in a fairly Gluckist style. We are at the beginnings of Sturm und Drang.

Release 11/2

014

The first performance of Glucks ballet Don Juan, in Vienna in 1761, was an outstanding event in the development of dramatic expression in music. This was the
first modern ballet, featuring dancers illustrating the story, not through a pre-established dance form (minuet, gavotte, etc.) but through free expression of their
bodies.
I am truly captivated by the very strong correspondence existing in Glucks score
between the story of Don Juan (the dancers movements) and the music, like a
sort of little dictionary of musical gestures, with elements that are to be found in
purely instrumental music of the period, including Haydns.
Yet it was in the 1760s (thus after the first performance of Glucks Don Juan) that
Haydn began his first dramatic symphonies.
So I find it very interesting to bring together this piece by Gluck and these symphonies.
(Giovanni Antonini)

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Alessandro Stradella

A 377

La Forza delle Stelle

A Serenata for 7 voices, 2 concertino ensembles & concerto grosso.
Ensemble Mare Nostrum
Andrea De Carlo, cond.

014
Release 08/2

19 CDs
A 378

Gustavus, the ambitious warrior-king of Sweden, was determined to raise his

daughter Cristina to rule and had her taught the skills of war and of the mind. What
he didnt expect was that she would also inherit his passion for music, and that it
was this that made her renounce the religion of her ancestors as well as her throne
and move to Rome, the center of her new faith as well as of Baroque music. There
she surrounded herself with the best singers and instrumentalists and even wrote
a recently-discovered scenario for a serenata, an evenings entertainment she
wanted to organize. She envisioned the lovers Damone and Clori declaring their
love one evening under a moonlit sky, and then overhearing passersby talk about
the power of the stars, La forza delle stelle, to aid or thwart love. It was a wonderful theme made explicit in the poet Baldinis text, and through the gloriously
expressive music of Stradella - recorded here for the first time - to transport us
into that magical world of romance and love and mystery.
Carolyn Gianturco

Joseph Haydn
Complete String Quartets
Festetics Quartet (on period instruments)

Release 09/2

12

014

Recorded in Budapest between 1993 and 2006, this complete set of the Haydns
String Quartets performed by the Festetics Quartet represents the most challenging project accomplished by Michel Bernstein, the mythical founder of Arcana who
died a few months after the recording of the very last volume. For the first time in a
boxed set, this monumental achievement is the first and only complete recording
on period instruments and features the entire 58 string quartets authenticated by
the composer for the great Artaria edition, making a total of 19 CDs in chronological order.
A reference edition, enriched by the detailed essay signed by the Hungarian musicologist Lszl Somfai, one of the most eminent Haydn scholars. The Festetics
extensively studied Haydns original quartet manuscripts and relied heavily on
Professor Somfai.

2 CDs
A 379

Laudarium

Songs of the Laudesi Companies in Trecento Italy

La Reverdie

Release 10/2

014

A rich and varied anthology of Italian monophonic Laude from the two principal
sources: the manuscripts of Cortona (c.1270) and Florence (c.1320) centered on the
themes common to both: the cult of the Virgin Mary and the devotion of the Saints.
The two-CD set includes a presentation booklet with detailed introductory essays
illustrating the methods of musicological research involved in the reconstruction of
this repertoire, as well as its continuing social, historical, cultural and religious significance, upon which La Reverdie has founded its unique interpretative approach.

Venetian Oboe Concertos

A 380

Albinoni - Rigaglia - Marcello - Platti - Sammartini - Vivaldi

Alfredo Bernardini, oboe (Giovanni Maria Anciuti, 1730)
Zefiro

Release 11/2

014

The new oboe invaded all European countries by the year 1700, just a few decades after its invention in France. Composers and listeners were fascinated by
its flexibility, versatility and a sound that came very close to the human voice.
In the same period Venetian composers developed the solo-concerto, a new musical form that would become a privileged standard until our modern times, in
which one instrument is in the forefront with a larger group, consisting mostly of strings and basso continuo. The two novelties were very soon associated and the quantity of Venetian concerti for oboe written between 1715 and
1735 make an impressive milestone in the repertoire of this instrument.

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Fuga Libera, the new digital label of Outhere Music

Reputed since its beginnings for the defence of eclectic, highly talented artists, today Fuga Libera presents a prestigious,
varied collection, supported by eminent players on the European musical scene.
Whilst maintaining the criteria for musical and editorial quality that ensured its fame, this label has turned resolutely towards the future by recently becoming purely digital. This means that its productions are henceforth distributed by all the
principal online distributors.
The merits of a solely digital collection are irrefutable: in addition to an ecological commitment that is by no means insignificant, we propose turning together towards an era of progress and modernization of the musical industry. Through
Fuga Libera, these new vectors of communication will no longer have cause to be jealous of the appeal of the physical CD:
superior sound quality, downloading and streaming immediately available anywhere in the world, as well as a complete,
visually attractive web-libretto in HD.
Fuga Libera thus asserts itself as our label of the future, inviting a curious public to follow it down this path of renovation
and rebirth of its catalogue.

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William Byrd

LPH 014

Infelix ego

Collegium Vocale Gent

Philippe Herreweghe, cond.

014
Release 09/2

Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent present their third project for Phi
focussing on vocal music of the Renaissance. This time, it is the English composer
William Byrd (c.1540-1623) who is being honoured. The title of the programme is
that of Byrds motet Infelix ego, one of the greatest artistic statements of the 16th
century. Its text is a meditation on Psalm 50, written by the Dominican Girolamo
Savonarola, a remarkable man who waged a campaign against the corrupt Medici
family in Florence. Taking the form of several rhetorical questions and assertions,
the text describes all the emotions felt by a tormented soul: guilt, fear, embarrassment, anger but above all the gift of deliverance upon acceptance of Christs
mercy. Byrd seems to have felt a powerful emotional connection with the words.
The Collegium Vocale Gent also presents the Mass for 5 Voices and a selection of
motets by Byrd, along with Alfonso Ferraboscos Peccantem me quotidie a5 and
Philippus de Montes Miserere mei a5.

Franz Schubert

LPH 015

Octet in F major, D. 803 - Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703

Edding Quartet
Northernlight

Release 10/2

014

Founded in 2007, the Edding Quartet has quickly become a reference in the interpretation of the Classical and Romantic string quartet repertoires, proposing refined,
intelligent readings of these often-heard works. In 2008, the members of the Quartet, along with clarinettist Nicola Boud, bassoonist Julien Debordes, horn player
Nicolas Chedmail and bass player Damien Guffroy, founded Northernlight, an ensemble, exploring the masterpieces for string and winds from the Classical and
Romantic periods. In January 2014, in Flageys Studio 4, in Brussels, the Edding
Quartet and Northernlight recorded a programme devoted to Schubert, featuring
the great Octet (D.803) - a veritable chamber symphony - and the Quartettsatz
(D.703). This project is the beginning of a collaboration between the Edding Quartet and Phi, the label of Philippe Herreweghe with whom the musicians of the
Edding Quartet / Northernlight often collaborate.

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Ich will schweigen

RAM 1401

Johann Hermann Schein and the Leipzig Stadpfeiffer tradition

Alice Foccroulle
Reinoud van Mechelen
Batrice Mayo-Felip
David Witczak
InAlto - Lambert Colson, cond.

Release 09/2

014

When Johann Hermann Schein became Kantor at the church of Saint Thomas in
Leipzig in 1616, he had, on the one hand, to satisfy the liturgical demands of his
Lutheran parish and, on the other, compose music that was truly contemporary,
sensible to the new style coming out of Italy. Schein exploited the new possibilities
brought by the basso continuo, demonstrated his mastery of musical rhetoric and
wrote extremely ambitious music of great expressive force. The instrumentation
calls for instruments such as the cornet, trombone and dulcian, Schein drawing
his musicians from the forces of the Stadtpfeiffer and Ratsmusiker, guilds of instrumentalists attached to the City of Leipzig since the 15th century. For this
musical portrait of Schein, one of the greatest German composers of the 17th
century and one of J. S. Bachs most talented predecessors, InAlto presents an
itinerary to the sources of the German cantata and testimony to the extraordinary tradition of city musicians perpetuated over the centuries. In addition to
Scheins music, this heritage is represented here by Johann Schelle, Gottfried
Reiche and J. S. Bach.

Kingdom of Heaven

RAM 1402

Music of the late Middle Ages by Heinrich Laufenberg and others

Ensemble Dragma
Agnieszka Budzinska - Jane Achtman - Marc Lewon

Release 10/2

16

014

Heinrich Laufenberg lived and worked between c.1390 and 1460 in the Swiss canton of Argovia, southern Germany and Alsace. He was the author of a vast body of
works, comprising spiritual hymns, didactic epics and religious prose. A manuscript
housed in the Strasbourg Library, which took up the major part of his work, was
completely destroyed in a fire in 1870. Happily, a copy had been made of it, so part
of his oeuvre was able to be passed on to posterity. The surviving songs of Heinrich
Laufenberg are of great beauty, in terms of both music and content: in one of them,
he praises Mary in a thoroughly poetic way; in a lullaby, he asks Jesus protection
for the sleeping infant; in yet another, he describes for us the kingdom of heaven
in detail and in all its richness. This programme, entitled Royaume des cieux, offers us the joy of hearing songs that had remained silent since the 15th century.
Between Laufenbergs lyrical and narrative songs are inserted instrumental pieces from the period. Thus, in an enthusiastic, authentic way, the ensemble Dragma gives life to the music of the late Middle Ages, in a glittering kaleidoscope.

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RIC 346

Digibook 2

DVDs

Francesco Cavalli
Elena

Soloists of the Acadmie Europeenne de Musique du Festival dAix-en-Provence

Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo Garca Alarcn, cond.

Recorded live during the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2013, Cavallis Elena had
not been performed for more than 350 years. The international press hailed this
rediscovery as one of the major events on the lyric scene.

Release 07/2

RIC 345

Digibook 2

014

CDs

With Jean-Yves Rufs imaginative staging, served by an exceptional cast made up

of young singers brought together by the Academy of the Aix Festival, this work is
also sublimated by the talent of the instrumentalists of the Cappella Mediterranea
and the theatrical talent of Leonardo Garca Alarcn. Elena relates the first adventures of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, coveted by numerous men
including Menelaus, who disguises himself as an Amazon to approach her, and
Theseus, who abducts her and tries to seduce her to the great displeasure of his
legitimate fiance, Hippolyta. Numerous colourful or tragic characters come to
complicate the situations in this mythological farce.

Andr Modeste Gretry

La Caravane du Caire

Les Agrmens
Guy van Waas, cond.

014
Release 08/2

Premiered in 1784 at the Acadmie Royale de Musique, where it ensured the institutions fortune, La Caravane du Caire was one of Grtrys most famous operas,
its popularity continuing into the 19th century. After the recording made under the
direction of Marc Minkowski in 1991, Guy Van Waas proposes an energetic new
version that enables us to discover a few variants in relation to the previous version. This production, realized by the Palazzetto Bru Zane of Venice, benefits from
a fascinating musicological presentation by Alexandre and Benot Dratwicki. The
libretto is typical of the oriental subjects that were so highly prized in the late 18th
century. Here, the beautiful Zlime, sold as a slave to a pasha, is rescued from the
seraglio thanks to the courage of her beloved Saint-Phar and the loyalty of another Frenchman, Florestan. The work is peppered with comical situations, tender
or bravura arias (including a pastiche of Italian-style coloratura) and embellished
with numerous ballets, some of which contribute an original note of exoticism.

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2 CDs
RIC 348

Matthias Weckman
Complete Organ Works

Bernard Foccroulle, organ

Release 09/2

RIC 347

Digibook 2

014

CDs

After Buxtehude, Tunder, Reinken, Bruhns, Scheidemann and Bhm, Bernard

Foccroulle pursues his exploration of the repertoire of the organists of northern Germany before Bach, with the works of Matthias Weckman. Trained in the entourage
of Schtz and having perfect mastery of the profession of Sweelincks heirs and
all aspects of the Italian style, this composer compels recognition as the keystone
in the generation preceding Buxtehudes. The repertoire tackles the free forms of
the new stylus fantasticus but also proposes different forms of pieces inspired by
chorale tunes, including two monumental fantasias in several sections. Bernard
Foccroulle made this recording on three historic organs: in Hollern, Stade, and primarily on the recently restored organ of the Katharinen Kirche in Hamburg. This
constitutes an event that will enchant enthusiasts!
Let us recall that, with this double album, Ricercar can offer its faithful public the
complete works of Matthias Weckman, the cantatas having been recorded by the
Ricercar Consort (RIC 216), and the instrumental music by La Fenice and the
harpsichordist Siebe Henstra (RIC 282).

Ich lasse dich nicht

Motets of the Bach Family
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, cond.

Release 10/2

18

014

After its successes in the field of German Baroque religious music, here VOX
LUMINIS proposes the first complete recording of the motets by Johann Sebastian
Bachs ancestors. These motets, most of which are written for double choir, blend
the old tradition inherited from the polyphony of the Renaissance with expressive
work inspired by the fashions of the madrigal. The chorale melodies that are quite
frequently associated with these motets contribute this colour typical of the Lutheran liturgical repertoire. Johann Sebastian Bach drew on the family tradition in
large part when tackling this genre and mastered this writing that was archaic
for its time. The proximity between his compositions and those of his ancestors
is astounding, and it is not without reason that the motet providing the title for
this recording, Ich lasse dich nicht, is attributed sometimes to Johann Sebastian,
sometimes to his uncle Johann Christoph. But beyond the historical considerations, these motets are filled with touching, humble and profound emotion that
the talent of the Vox Luminis singers carry to the exceptional level to which the
ensemble has accustomed us!

Georg Philipp Telemann

RIC 351

Per la Tromba

Ensemble Aeolus
Jean-Franois Madeuf

014
Release 10/2

ES 7 CDs

RIC 349

LES PLEIAD

It was in Germany, at the beginning of the 18th century, that the virtuosic use of
the trumpet and horn developed as much in sacred music as in court music. With
the limits of their natural harmonics, these instruments contributed their characteristics to the musical language, even though daring composers such as Johann
Sebastian Bach and his friend Georg Philipp Telemann tried to increase their possibilities. Moreover, these instruments are also associated with their original functions - war for the trumpet and the hunt for the horn -, and composers cannot avoid
making use of those origins from the moment that they entrust chamber music
compositions to them. The programme of this disc brings together original compositions that, as in military bands, use only wind instruments: trumpets, horns,
oboe and bassoon, sometimes joined by a harpsichord for the basso continuo.
Once again, Telemann impresses us with his imagination and talent in mastering
the characteristics of each instrument exactly.

German Sacred Baroque Music

Ricercar Consort
La Fenice
Choeur De Chambre De Namur
Ex Tempore
Bernard Foccroulle

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Here already is the second set of LES PLEIADES, the intelligent collection of
RICERCAR re-releases. Again devoted to the German Baroque religious repertoire,
this appropriate release focuses on the Nativity repertoire, extending from the
early 17th century to the generation of Johann Sebastian Bach who is represented
here by a few very beautiful Christmas cantatas. Alongside Schtzs Christmas
Oratorio and lovely Yuletide cantatas by Bachs contemporary Christoph Graupner,
we will find in this set the evocation of Nativity scenes, from the Annunciation
up to the Presentation in the Temple, as well as the reconstruction of a Lutheran
Christmas service. The compositions by Praetorius, Selle, Tunder, Lbeck, Buxtehude, Scheidt, Hammerschmidt, Schtz and Bruhns will tell you the Christmas
story with tenderness and joy.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Concerts de Monsieur Rameau
Les Dominos

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Ricercar could not help but participate in celebrating Rameau Year. It is Florence Malgoires ensemble LES DOMINOS that pays this tribute with a very rarely
played repertoire. This is what Camille Saint-Sans called Concerts en Sextuor
in the edition of Rameaus works that he undertook at the end of the 19th century. To carry out this monumental project, he started from a manuscript executed, it would seem, by a certain Monsieur Decroix in 1768, i.e., four years after
the composers death. These Concerts by Monsieur Rameau are, in fact, transcriptions in six parts of the Pices de Clavecin en Concert that Rameau had
conceived at the outset from his harpsichord pieces with accompaniment by
violin or flute and bass viol. This adaptation by M. Decroix is quite enigmatic,
and Les Dominos give us a colourful reading of it, combining with the strings
two emblematic instruments of Rameaus orchestra: flutes and bassoon.

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Berg / Zemlinsky / Webern

ZZT 345

Berg : Sieben frhe Lieder

Zemlinsky : Maeterlinck Gesnge
Webern : Passacaille
Katrien Baerts, soprano
Het Collectief
Reinbert de Leeuw, cond.

Release 09/2

014

When it comes to modern music from the 20th-century repertoire to scores on

which the ink is barely dry , Het Collectief is one of the finest European ensembles. With their sixth disc for Outhere and their first on the Zig-Zag Territoires label,
the ensemble returns to the roots of the modern repertoire, interpreting Weberns
Passacaglia and, with soprano Katrien Baert, Bergs Sieben frhe Lieder, Zemlinskys Maeterlinck Gesnge.
But how, with a chamber ensemble, does one perform this music that was written for orchestra or piano? It means finding transcriptions! Happily, Reinbert de
Leeuw, conductor, pianist, composer, teacher, founder of the famous Schnberg
Ensemble and eminent personality on the contemporary music scene, has arranged these works. And the icing on the cake: Het Collectief plays these arrangements under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw himself!

Sergue Prokofiev

ZZT 346

Sonatas nos. 5 & 6 - Penses op. 62 - Music for Children op. 65

Yury Martynov, Steinway piano

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Release 09/2

For Zig-Zag Territoires, Yury Martynov has undertaken the complete Beethoven symphonies in Liszts transcriptions on historic instruments. The third volume of that
cycle came out in January 2014 and, like the previous instalments, has enjoyed
great critical success.
This new release bears witness to another aspect of Yury Martynovs talent and
art, this time grappling with a composer from the avant-garde of the first half of the
20th century, and on a resolutely modern Steinway.
On the programme: works from the pre-war years (Sonata No.5, Penses), as well
as a war work (Sonata No. 6) and the marvellous 12 pieces that make up the
Music for Children, with which apprentice pianists are well familiar. This is therefore a recording that explores two registers quite present in Prokofievs work:
rich, powerful writing contrasting with melodic, poetic writing.

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Frdric Chopin

ZZT 347

The 24 Preludes, Op. 28 2 posthumous preludes

A few mazurkas and an impromptu
Andrew Tyson, piano

The Zig-Zag Territoires label, like the Outhere Music group of which it is a part, is
particularly attentive to the emergence and support of new talents, of which this
CD, the first by the young pianist Andrew Tyson, is a good illustration. But it is also
much more than that for it bears witness to the interpretation, already enlightening, of a very great talent and to the birth, on disc, of a singular, poetic voice.

Release 10/2

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Andrew Tyson has chosen to record the cycle of Chopins 24 Preludes, which represent so many different worlds to explore and bring to life. He excels therein thanks
to the fantastic variety of timbres that he manages to make blossom on the piano
of the Teldex studio in Berlin, and also to an extraordinary contrapuntal capacity.

Robert Schumann

ZZT 352

Etudes symphoniques, Kreisleriana, Toccata

Nelson Goerner, piano

After a notable Debussy recital hailed by the international press, Nelson Goerner
continues his collaboration with Zig-Zag Territoires in the company of another composer: Robert Schumann.

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On the programme: two emblematic works from Schumanns universe: the Etudes
Symphoniques, Op. 13 (including the posthumous etudes) and Kreisleriana, Op.
16, plus a short piece about which Schumann said that it was the most difficult
piece ever written: the Toccata, Op. 7.
This new recording clearly demonstrates the fantastic range of Nelson Goerners
talent, felicitously combining a highly rigorous approach; exceptional generosity
and richness of sound.

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Carl Orff

ZZT 353

Carmina Burana

Yeree Suh, soprano

Yves Saelens, tenor
Thomas Bauer, baritone
Cantate Domino Aalst, childrens chorus
Collegium Vocale Gent
Anima Eterna Brugge
Jos Van Immerseel, cond.

Surprise: Anima Eterna tackles Carmina Burana!

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Often described as music for amateurs, sometimes used (or misused) towards
purely commercial ends, Orffs Carmina Burana was clearly ready for a new approach, a sort of revivifying, thorough rethinking. This has now been done, thanks
to Jos van Immerseel and the absolutely exceptional musical team that he assembled.
Faithful to what accounts for the force of his musical approach, Jos van Immerseel profoundly revolutionizes the sound image and interpretation of this score,
thanks both to the very high quality of the chosen performers and to the singularity of the instruments and timbres of his orchestra.
So it is a very new way of approaching this work that Jos van Immerseel proposes, open-minded, without concession but with the great pleasure and joy of
simply making music.

4 CDs
ZZT 348

J.S. Bach - C.P.E. Bach

J.S. BACH: Concerti - Sonatas & Partitas

C.P.E. BACH: Sonatas for violin & pianoforte
Gli Incogniti
Amandine Beyer, violin & cond.

In this set, Zig-Zag Territoires has brought together recordings of works by J.S. Bach
and C.P.E. Bach, made by Amandine Beyer and her ensemble, Gli Incogniti.
Thus we have four facets of Amandine Beyers talent on display here: the soloist,
the concert artist, the chamber player and the conductor.
In addition, this set proposes, at a low price, particularly significant works by the
Cantor of Leipzig and his son Carl Philipp-Emanuel.

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4 CDs
ZZT 349

Vivaldi / Corelli

A.VIVALDI: The Four Seasons and other concertos

A.CORELLI: Concerti Grossi op. 6
Gli Incogniti
Amandine Beyer, violin & cond.

Release 10/2

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This VIVALDI/CORELLI/BEYER collection groups interpretations by Amandine Beyer

and the ensemble Gli Incogniti of major works by two Italian composers: Vivaldi
and Corelli. Here again, Amandine Beyer demonstrates her exceptional talent as
both a violinist and bandleader, giving these works, which illustrate the art of the
concerto at the beginning of the 18th century, a certain Italian vocal quality in a
particularly felicitous and invigorating interpretation.
All of the CDs in this set were unanimously hailed by the press.

Tango!

ZZT 350

Aspects of the Tango, from Astor Piazzolla to Gustavo Beytelmann

Quatuor Caliente
Ensemble Contraste
Ensemble Astoria
Vincent Peirani
Franois Salque

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This set is a journey to the heart of the Tango and also the occasion to be convinced,
if need be, of the importance of this music and of the full singularity of a language
that crosses styles and strikes a profound chord in us.
In fact, this set constitutes a quadruple portrait of the Tango, bringing together four
recordings from the Outhere Music catalogue, made by four different ensembles:
the Caliente Quartet, the Ensemble Contraste, the Ensemble Astoria and the duo
formed by cellist Franois Salque and accordionist Vincent Peirani.
This low-priced set also traces the evolution of this language, from Piazzolla to
Beytelmann, including the byways taken by the Salque Peirani duo. A whole history... and quite a story!

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7 CDs
ZZT 351

J. S. Bach / C. P. E. Bach
Bach and Sons

Les Nices de Rameau

Gli Incogniti
Ensemble deux Fleustes Esgales
Chiara Banchini, violin
Jrg-Andreas Btticher, harpsichord
Guido Balestracci, viola da gamba
Amandine Beyer, violin

Release 10/2

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On the occasion of C.P.E. Bachs birthday, Zig-Zag Territoires brings together, in a

7-CD set, the principal recordings from its catalogue devoted to chamber works
and concertos by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his father, Johann Sebastian.
By the father, we can hear, in particular, the Sonatas for violin and harpsichord, the
Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, the Violin Concertos...
The son is represented by the Trio Sonatas for two equal flutes and continuo and
the Sonatas for violin and pianoforte.

Ludwig van Beethoven

ZZT 354

Violin Concerto, Op. 61

Two Romances for violin and orchestra, Op. 40 & 50
Lorenzo Gatto, violin
Ensemble Pellas
Benjamin Levy, cond.

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Lorenzo Gatto won 2nd prize at the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition and was
elected Rising Star 2010-11. Beyond these prestigious awards and distinctions
hailing a virtuoso, what is interesting about this young violinist is first of all the
musician, particularly refined, rigorous, and also generous.
His encounter with the Ensemble Pellas and its conductor, Benjamin Levy, took
place easily, precisely round these musical notions and orientations. In fact, this
particular orchestra gets together uniquely for projects that strongly motivate
each of its members.
Their version of these universally known works reflects their respective convictions, an approach that is as demanding and ambitious as it is humble and respectful. This is a recording that will endure.

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Mlina Tobiana

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Mlina Tobiana, voice

Stphan Moutot, saxophone
Emmanuel Duprey, piano
Rmy Voide, double bass
Martin Guimbellot, double bass

Release 11/2

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Born of two actor parents, Mlina Tobiana is a true child of the theatre.
Happy onstage, she is even more so with her partners in the quintet
that, with her amongst the five, constitutes the basis of this recording.
In this quintet everyone plays, everyone composes, and Mlina is not an
exception for, in addition to the singer, she is also a pianist and composer.
This is her first CD. She and Outnote discovered each other thanks to a sampler sent and listened to (yes, that does happen!), then a few concerts
and aprs-concerts. Sometime later, the quintet got together in the
Sequenza studio with two other accomplices, Franck Jaffrs and Philippe Tessier du Cros, confirmed virtuosos on the recording console.
Thus, this first disc speaks of encounters... and it is an encounter on the border between jazz, pop, rhythm n blues...

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