{"title":"ERIC THE WISE","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"eric-le-sage","title":"ERIC LE SAGE - Hanging Gardens | CD","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAn eminent representative of the French school of piano, pianist Eric Le Sage offers a new album in the form of a poetic stroll through the secret gardens of 22 French composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties, around two world wars from which it was necessary to heal, in the vertigo of all rebirths and that of progress on the march, music also needed calm, humanity, and natural intimacy. While twenty-two French composers cultivate their secret soul in a few pianistic miniatures, electricity, the gramophone, the bicycle, the Parisian metro... are already inviting themselves into people's daily lives. Women emerge, emancipate themselves, and re-color a struggling society that demands a fairer sharing of goods, of the joy of living, and also the right to carelessness. Music then somewhat escapes the new artistic tempo of this era: Dadaism, Surrealism. The language of musicians evolves, but without expressing the same urgency for rupture, for liberation, as that of other artistic creators. These suspended gardens from this era are already surreal and free, seemingly less concerned with expression than with impression, with ideas than with sensations. Between César Franck, Ernest Chausson, and Jehan Alain, all three from a single century, the composers who suspended their gardens in this album almost all lived straddling the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dupont, Cras, Aubert, D'Indy, Hahn, Ibert, Pierné, Vierne, Samazeuilh, Schmitt, Chaminade, Boulanger, Honegger, Tailleferre, Séverac, Saint-Saëns, Poulenc, Satie represent a particularly prolific era for French music, even if posterity will not be granted to each one in proportion to their talent. Their suspended gardens, often secret, always interior, are undoubtedly not representative of all the artistic ambitions that their protagonists displayed throughout their work, but they present themselves with depth and sincerity as many small, unrecognized refuges. Evoking with talent nature and its bucolic landscapes, each of these compositions offers its interpretation of a colorful post-romanticism that contributes to the retention of time, inviting just the right amount of mystery and nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sony Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59395603988814,"sku":"0196587497026","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0917\/0357\/4862\/files\/Cover_jardins_suspendus.webp?v=1775808840"},{"product_id":"eric-le-sage-reinecke-brahms-cd","title":"ERIC LE SAGE - REINECKE \u0026 BRAHMS | CD","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOne of France's most celebrated pianists, Eric le Sage is a musician whose poetic, profound, and subtle playing reflects an authentic and generous personality, rewarded with numerous international prizes. Paul Meyer, for his part, is a virtuoso clarinetist and a meritorious conductor, currently at the head of the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra. In this exceptional album, Eric Le Sage and Paul Meyer perform 3 Sonatas for piano and clarinet written by Reinecke and Brahms. Ondine, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 167, Carl Reinecke \"Carl Reinecke's Ondine Sonata is best known as a cornerstone of the romantic repertoire for flute and piano. [...] The version performed by Le Sage and Meyer is that for clarinet, arranged by the composer himself, published in 1885. What is interesting in Reinecke's own version for clarinet is that he does not merely transpose the flute part, but adapts it taking into account the colors and range of the clarinet, particularly in the second movement where the writing for flute would be awkward on the clarinet. Thus, many passages are octave-shifted, nuances are adapted, as well as additions in the clarinet's medium range. Alongside the other works for clarinet that Carl Reinecke left us, this long-forgotten version of the wonderful Ondine Sonata is a major addition to the romantic repertoire for clarinet and piano.\" Paul Meyer Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 Nos. 1 \u0026amp; 2, Johannes Brahms \"During his summer holidays spent in Ischl, Brahms composed two sonatas for clarinet and piano in quick succession. The beginning of the year had been particularly challenging for the composer, who in February saw the passing of close friends, Billroth and Bülow. Brahms may have wanted to express his sadness through the melancholic and poetic sound of the clarinet in these two expressive works, with their rhapsodic and meditative character.\" Jean-Jacques Velly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sony Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59395649634638,"sku":"0196588256226","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0917\/0357\/4862\/files\/Eric_le_sage_cover.jpg?v=1775825588"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0917\/0357\/4862\/collections\/Cover_jardins_suspendus.webp?v=1775808858","url":"https:\/\/store.sonymusic.fr\/en\/collections\/eric-le-sage.oembed","provider":"Sony Music Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}