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Folk Songs | Albane Carrère & Ensemble21 (Ref.: CYP4662)

COMMERCIAL RELEASE : MARCH 8th, 2024

Commissioned by Marc Collet and Ensemble21, Onze Folksongs d'ici et d'ailleurs by Jean-Marie Rens is a complete rearrangement of his Sept chansons traditionnelles flamandes, françaises et wallonnes composed over twenty years ago. This new version calls for a larger instrumental ensemble, since it was rewritten for the lineup of Luciano Berio's famous Folk Songs, to which it offers an original and unprecedented mirror. The challenge here was to preserve the specific character of these Sept chansons while carrying out a massive task of orchestration-arrangement as well as composition.

Luciano Berio is arguably the most prominent figure in contemporary Italian music. He composed the cycle of Folk Songs in 1964 for his wife, the American soprano Cathy Berberian. A remarkable fusion of popular and classical music, they represent a kind of anthology made up of eleven folk songs of various origins that the composer had found on old records, in printed collections or heard directly from friends.

Albane Carrère and the Ensemble21 conducted by Marc Collet approach these two collections with infinite tenderness and a subtle art of evocation. Albane Carrère's mezzo voice weaves the link and travels imperceptibly between these two worlds.
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Amorosa | Petit Soleil (Ref.: CYP0621)

COMMERCIAL RELEASE : MARCH 8th, 2024

Amorosa, a multicultural musical band based in Brussels, is driven by the voice of Stéphanie Scultore who sings about love in French and Portuguese, drawing us into her poetry between the warmth of Brazilian rhythms and the elegance of jazz harmonies. Amorosa's music is generous. Sometimes voluble, sometimes calm. At once intimate and universal, it draws its uniqueness and its modernity from the way it mixes genres, textures and registers while drawing on popular traditions.

Petit Soleil is an album full of love and humor. Stéphanie drew her inspiration from both the birth of her son and the death of her mother a few months later. The music is a tribute to those who are leaving and those who are coming: the people who live within us, the people who are dear to us and accompany us at every moment in a cycle that renews itself endlessly. Each song pays tribute to a place or a person and evokes something of the sky in the form of dialogue, contemplation, poem, prayer, reverie or legend, telling a story that is both intimate and collective, forming a patchwork of a great landscape.

The time of an album, a day or a lifetime, we sit down facing the sea and the sky to rediscover stories and listen to songs, to remember where we come from...
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Songes | Élodie Vignon (Ref.: CYP1685)

COMMERCIAL RELEASE : JANUARY 26th, 2024

For the fourth solo album by pianist Élodie Vignon on Cypres, we have long been dreaming of a recording with orchestra! And so begins this fruitful collaboration with Eric Lederhandler, head of the Czech Virtuosi ensemble, of which he has been guest conductor for the past twenty years. Just as Élodie Vignon's first three albums which weave links between music and poetry, this one presents a unique programme, designed by Élodie and Eric to give pride of place to both orchestra and piano.

Manuel de Falla's Nights in the gardens of Spain quickly established itself as a masterpiece, combining finesse with the need to translate popular Spanish folklore with wit. They are an evocation of Andalusia, and more particularly of gypsy music. Gabriel Fauré's Ballade pour piano et orchestra adds a touch of French Romanticism to this programme.

Leader of the Finnish national school, Jean Sibelius appears here in two different guises through symphonic pieces, ranging from the most exalted Retour de Lemminkäinen to the most intimate of The Bard.
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Lueurs | Apolline Jesupret (Ref.: CYP4663)

COMMERCIAL RELEASE : FEBRUARY 9th, 2024

Apolline. From the Greek "apellos", which arouses, inspires creation!

We are delighted to present the first monographic recording dedicated to a young Belgian composer whom we are following closely: Apolline Jesupret. Lueurs is a mirror of our society. Drawing inspiration from both nature and the tragic upheavals of history, her often surprising music questions our place as human beings in a world that is accelerating and sometimes overtaking us.

These fascinating compositions are made up of vibrations and oscillations at multiple speeds, like myriad breaths, each with its own virtue. Like tender glances at the things of life, this music is bursting with innovation and optimism!

The musicians of Musiques Nouvelles and the Ensemble Hopper made no mistake and brilliantly defend the music of a composer who has not finished making us hear it!
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BEvocaL | By the Rivers of Belgium (Ref.: CYP2627)

COMMERCIAL RELEASE : DECEMBER 1ST, 2023

This recording expresses the strong desire of the creators and conductors of this project to leave a trace of the remarkable work that was accomplished by this particular Belgian youth choir over the last few years. These talented amateurs and future professionals aim mainly at perpetuating our rich cultural patrimony and allowing an increasingly large audience to vibrate through outstanding interpretations of Belgian repertoire, from ancient to contemporary.
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Pierre Slinckx | C#2 (Ref.: CYP0620)

COMMERCIAL RELEASE : OCTOBER 6TH, 2023

The C#1 project (duo for organ and electronics, Cypres CYP0613), conducted with Cindy Castillo, saw us spend a lot of time in the special world of churches. We played the piece on exceptional organs such as the Thomaskirche in Kassel (Germany) and Brussels Cathedral, often in breathtaking acoustics. At the same time, we wanted to find a way for our duo to exist outside churches without abandoning the instrument around which we work: the organ.

Cindy acquired a tiny medieval organetto, barely two octaves long. This type of portable hand-bellowed organ, typically played by angel musicians in religious iconography, was very popular in the Middle Ages before disappearing after the Renaissance. This instrument is, in fact, the very opposite of a great organ, and that's what makes it so beautiful. Its timbre is fragile and malleable, its sound intimate and full of "impurities" that give it a warmth to which no symphonic organ can aspire.

I immediately appreciated its playfulness. In addition to its small, toy-like size, it's a sonic playground on which to achieve some very surprising, almost electronic results. The pressure applied to the bellows has a strong impact on pitch and timbre, making this instrument as organic as it is difficult to master.

While I was composing C#2, a duo for organetto and electronics, my second son was born, followed a few months later by Cindy's daughter. Naturally, I wanted to create music steeped in childhood and dreams. For this reason, C#2 is full of metallic timbres, strange music boxes and vaguely 8-bit sounds remotely reminiscent of old video games. C#2 is also a kind of huge Frère Jacques arrangement (without the irony of Mahler's first symphony).

The mountains on the cover are the Dolomites photographed from the Cadore Valley in Italy. The mountains of my childhood vacations. Their majesty and power have always impressed me deeply.

Now I realize that they are as fragile as a child.

Pierre Slinckx


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