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Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Julien Chauvin, Atsushi Sakaï, Alexis Kossenko - Haydn, Hofmann: Concerti (2008)

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Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Julien Chauvin, Atsushi Sakaï, Alexis Kossenko - Haydn, Hofmann: Concerti (2008)

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Julien Chauvin, Atsushi Sakaï, Alexis Kossenko - Haydn, Hofmann: Concerti (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 66:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Eloquentia | # EL 0917 | Recorded: 2008

Most of Haydn's concertos are early works, written in the years immediately before or after his engagement at the Esterhazy court in 1761. During that time, he composed four violin concertos, of which three-all except Hob.VIIa, No.2 in D major - survive, none of them in autograph form. Hob.VIIa No.3, in A major turned up only in 1949.

Alexis Kossenko - Naudot: Fantaisies Champêtres (2023)

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Alexis Kossenko - Naudot: Fantaisies Champêtres (2023)

Alexis Kossenko, Tobie Miller, Jean-Pierre Van Hees, Les Ambassadeurs & La Grande Écurie - Naudot: Fantaisies Champêtres (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 470 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 191 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:20:58
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

Musettes, hurdy-gurdies, and flutes formed the dream countryside of Rococo-style salons, that of Watteau’s painting Concert Champêtre (1727), when Naudot’s Fantaisies were enjoying their hour of glory. The fashion for “pastoralism” was in full swing, and professional musicians as well as great amateurs vied with each other in “pastoral” concertos where musettes and hurdy-gurdies featured heavily. These instruments were popular originally, garnering great skill to rise to the heights of virtuoso: enough to enchant Louis XV’s courtesans and those close to La Pompadour! Alexis Kossenko reveals these wonderfully outdated gems to us as a bold shepherd.

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)

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Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre, 1749 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 753 Mb | Total time: 165:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 891 | Recorded: 2022

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) left two very different versions of his tragédie en musique Zoroastre: the first, in 1749, suffered from cabals and the work was withdrawn from the repertory. Rameau gave it a thoroughgoing revision in 1756. At this time, he was at the height of his powers. Melody, harmony, orchestration and choral writing no longer held any secrets for him. Zoroastre brought still further innovation. For the first time, he dispensed with a prologue, and turned the overture into a philosophical ‘programme’, the struggle between day and night, between good and evil. The 1749 version is entirely governed by avant-garde ideas; Zoroastre resembles Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, but two generations earlier. This disconcerted some of the audience: Zoroastre was a moral, social and philosophical opera.

Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (2023)

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Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (2023)

Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 247 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 135 Mb | 00:58:40
Classical | Label: Aparté

It is difficult to think of Mendelssohn without being reminded of the extraordinary evocative power of his music, capable of conjuring up bright Italian sunshine, grey Scottish landscapes, and the magical world of fairies. He was a child prodigy and an outstanding composer, but he tends nevertheless to be neglected, compared to other members of his generation in the nineteenth century – to the detriment of his art, which is fascinating in so many ways.

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, Zefira Valova - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per l'Orchestra di Dresda (2013)

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Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, Zefira Valova - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per l'Orchestra di Dresda (2013)

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs, Zefira Valova - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per l'Orchestra di Dresda (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # 190 | Recorded: 2012

Les Ambassadeurs launch a series of recordings devoted to the repertory of the Dresdner Hofkapelle at the time of Bach, with the aim of rediscovering the splendid sound of an ensemble then regarded as the orchestral ideal. The ties of friendship between Johann Georg Pisendel – who led the orchestra – and Antonio Vivaldi held firm for life. Between their first meeting in Venice in 1716 and the death of the Prete Rosso in 1741, Pisendel continually enriched his collection of Vivaldi concertos, a certain number of which were manifestly tailor-made for his outstanding technique and equally exceptional delicacy of expression. This explains why Dresden holds so many Vivaldian treasures, sometimes autograph, sometimes copied in Pisendel’s own hand.

Alexis Kossenko - Walckiers l'iconoclaste. Chamber Works (2023)

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Alexis Kossenko - Walckiers l'iconoclaste. Chamber Works (2023)

Alexis Kossenko - Walckiers l'iconoclaste. Chamber Works (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | Cover | 04:27:30 | 1,02 GB
Classical | Label: Aparté

Unjustly forgotten, Eugène Walckiers left some extraordinary chamber music: works that are amazingly theatrical and lyrical, and constantly full of humor. Behind hints of Beethoven, Rossini, Berlioz or Mendelssohn, with a touch of folk music here and there, we perceive the mischievous personality of an unclassifiable, iconoclastic and irresistible composer. Alexis Kossenko and a group of exceptional soloists revive these treasures, for the most part recorded here for the first time, with relish and enthusiasm.

Alexis Kossenko, Valeria Kafelnikov & Stephan MacLeod - Mozart: Concertos for flute and orchestra (2022)

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Alexis Kossenko, Valeria Kafelnikov & Stephan MacLeod - Mozart: Concertos for flute and orchestra (2022)

Alexis Kossenko, Valeria Kafelnikov & Stephan MacLeod - Mozart: Concertos for flute and orchestra (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 365 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:10
Classical | Label: Claves Records

If Mozart gave the concerto of his time its ultimate shape, it is because he transferred to it all the characteristics of the opera aria, giving the cantabile – which he often mentions in his correspondence – most significant importance and transforming the vocal virtuosic runs instrumental figurations. The soloist is a character whose rhetoric gives the orchestral material presented in the introduction a deeper, more intimate and more sensitive dimension. This constitutes the raison d’être of the relationship between the individual and the group, between the solos and the tuttis.

Patrick Ayrton, Les Inventions - Joseph Touchemoulin: Concertos & Symphonies (2008)

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Patrick Ayrton, Les Inventions - Joseph Touchemoulin: Concertos & Symphonies (2008)

Patrick Ayrton, Les Inventions - Joseph Touchemoulin: Concertos & Symphonies (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 68:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ramée | # RAM0807 | Recorded: 2007

We know very little about Joseph Touchemoulin, a renowned violinist and chapel master to the princely courts of Bonn and Regensburg for more than 50 years–and one of the few 18th century French composers to have enjoyed a career outside France. Touchemoulin's apprenticeship was largely accomplished at Padua, where he became a pupil of the great violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini. This is the source of the exuberant Italian idiom which characterizes his work, and which he would later combine with the delicacy and ease of the German tradition. This first recording of Touchemoulin on period instruments, or on authentic copies, presents three of the composer's concertos and two of his symphonies–charming, finely made music that combines Italian influences with the current tastes of the Mannheim school.

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs-La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Achante et Céphise (2021)

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Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs-La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Achante et Céphise (2021)

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs-La Grande Écurie - Jean-Philippe Rameau - Achante et Céphise (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 743 Mb | Total time: 65:41+64:44 | Scans included
Classical | Erato | # 9029669394 | Recorded: 2020

An opera of adventurous and lavish scope, Rameau’s magical Achante et Céphise receives its world premiere recording – 270 years after its staged premiere at the Académie royale de musique in celebration of the birth of Louis XV’s grandson. The first French opera to feature clarinets, it offers a rich sequence of choruses, ballets and virtuoso ariettes and opens with a celebratory overture which includes a graphic musical depiction of a fireworks display. Alexis Kossenko conducts tenor Cyrille Dubois and soprano Sabine Devieilhe in the title roles, Les Ambassadeurs – the orchestra he founded in 2010 – and the choral singers of Les Chantres du CMBV (Centre de musique baroque de Versailles).

Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Per l'Orchestra di Dresda, Vol.1 Ouverture (2021)

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Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Per l'Orchestra di Dresda, Vol.1 Ouverture (2021)

Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Per l'Orchestra di Dresda, Vol.1 Ouverture (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 485 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:22:39
Classical | Label: Aparté

Alexis Kossenko delves into the repertoire of one of the most admired orchestras in Europe during Bach's lifetime. The greatest composers of the century composed for this famous ensemble, who were showcase for the musical splendor of the court of the prince-electors. Combining concerti and sacred music, this album is the first volume in an exceptional series devoted to this orchestra.

Alexis Kossenko & Vassilis Varvaresos - Undine: Legends of Northern Europe (2021)

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Alexis Kossenko & Vassilis Varvaresos - Undine: Legends of Northern Europe (2021)

Alexis Kossenko & Vassilis Varvaresos - Undine: Legends of Northern Europe (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 281 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 202 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:26:43
Classical | Label: Aparté

Here Alexis Kossenko (flute) and Vassilis Varvaresos (piano) plunge us into the fantastic atmosphere of Northern Europe in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, when composers’ imaginations were fired by folktale and legend. The water spirit Ondine inspired Carl Reinecke, whose op. 167 provides the starting point for an allegorical programme inhabited by disturbing and fascinating creatures.

Splendeurs de Versailles - Music in the Royal Court of Versailles [10CDs] (2016)

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Splendeurs de Versailles - Music in the Royal Court of Versailles [10CDs] (2016)

Splendeurs de Versailles - Music in the Royal Court of Versailles [10CDs] (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3.02 Gb | Total time: 10:47:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 260 | Recorded: 1999-2013

Versailles: its court, its atmosphere and its music… So many splendours emblematic of a monument with an incomparably rich history. The works associated with the palace have travelled down the centuries and today represent a precious part of our heritage. In this ten-CD set, Alpha retraces the musical life of the unique and luminous universe of Versailles. Le Poème Harmonique, Café Zimmermann, Capriccio Stravagante and many others invite themselves into the company of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Jean-Henry d’Anglebert and share with us for a few hours the sumptuous concerts that made Versailles a place like no other.

Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Vivaldi: Concerti per il flauto traversier (2018)

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Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Vivaldi: Concerti per il flauto traversier (2018)

Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Vivaldi: Concerti per il flauto traversier (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 398 Mb | Total time: 77:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpfa Classics | # ALPHA 174 | Recorded: 2009

In Holland in the 1720s the transverse flute enjoyed considerable popularity among amateur musicians. Aware of that keen interest, the publisher Michel Le Cene decided in 1729 to present his customers with the very first collection of concertos for flute and orchestra. Vivaldi responded to his request by refurbishing several older works. Only one of them was already in the modern concerto form: the Concerto in F major for recorder and strings. Another four pieces were hybrid in form and still close to chamber works. The predominant role of the recorder or flute in those four concertos made them ideal for adaptation.

Stephan MacLeod, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2012)

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Stephan MacLeod, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2012)

Stephan MacLeod, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 356 Mb | Total time: 65:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Productions | # Alpha 185 | Recorded: 2011

The performances on this lovely album of vocal and instrumental music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier make it a recording that should delight the composer's fans and anyone who loves the music of the Baroque. Listeners should be warned that the packaging and even the composer's titles create expectations of music of a very different character from what is actually presented. The three Leçons de Ténèbres of the title, scored for bass and chamber orchestra, refer to baleful texts taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah describing the fall and abasement of Jerusalem, and were written for services on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Holy Week, the darkest days in the Christian liturgical calendar.

Bolette Roed, Reiko Ichise, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Telemann (2016)

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Bolette Roed, Reiko Ichise, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Telemann (2016)

Bolette Roed, Reiko Ichise, Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori - Telemann (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 412 Mb | Total time: 78:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DUX | # DUX 1245 | Recorded: 2015

Johann Joachim Quantz, in his handbook for transverse flute written in 1752, wrote of the composer Georg Philipp Telemann: “I wish to especially recommend Telemann’s trios written in the French style, many of which he had already fashioned thirty or more years ago.” Georg Philipp Telemann not only gained the admiration of Quantz, but his pieces are still frequently performed and recorded today. For this album, his Concerto di camera in G minor, Double Concertos in A minor and E minor, and Suite in A minor have been recorded. Performing these timeless works are three outstanding period instrumentalists, Bolette Roed, Reiko Ichise, and Alexis Kossenko.