A Night in London (Deluxe Edition) Ophélie Gaillard

• James Oswald (1711 - 1769): She's Sweetest When She's Naked (Solo Version):
• 1 Oswald: She's Sweetest When She's Naked (Solo Version) 01:00
• Charles Avison (1709 - 1770), Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757): Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D Minor (After Domenico Scarlatti):
• 2 Avison, Scarlatti: Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D Minor (After Domenico Scarlatti): I. Largo 02:48
• Corelli Arcangelo (1653 - 1713): Concerto Grosso No. 12 in D Minor, H.143 'La Folia' (After Corelli Violin Sonata, Op. 5 No. 12):
• 3 Arcangelo, Geminiani: Concerto Grosso No. 12 in D Minor, H.143 'La Folia' (After Corelli Violin Sonata, Op. 5 No. 12) 10:34
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Serse, HWV 40, Act 3:
• 4 Handel: Serse, HWV 40, Act 3: Sinfonia 03:20
• Nicola Porpora (1686 - 1768): Cello Concerto in G Major, INP 18:
• 5 Porpora: Cello Concerto in G Major, INP 18: I. Adagio 03:26
• 6 Porpora: Cello Concerto in G Major, INP 18: II. Allegro 04:55
• 7 Porpora: Cello Concerto in G Major, INP 18: III. Largo 03:09
• 8 Porpora: Cello Concerto in G Major, INP 18: IV. Allegro - Presto 04:22
• George Frideric Handel: Alcina, HWV 34, Act 3:
• 9 Handel: Alcina, HWV 34, Act 3: Credete al mio dolore (Alcina) 07:31
• Concerto Grosso in B-Flat Major, Op. 3 No. 2, HWV 313:
• 10 Handel: Concerto Grosso in B-Flat Major, Op. 3 No. 2, HWV 313: II. Largo in G Minor 02:25
• Johann Adolf Hasse (1699 - 1783): Fuga e Grave in G Minor:
• 11 Hasse: Fuga e Grave in G Minor 05:44
• Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724 - 1808): Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 14 No. 2:
• 12 Cirri: Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 14 No. 2: I. Allegro spiritoso 05:00
• 13 Cirri: Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 14 No. 2: II. Largo assai 04:07
• 14 Cirri: Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 14 No. 2: III. Rondo: Allegro 04:24
• James Oswald: The Murrays March:
• 15 Oswald: The Murrays March 01:31
• My Nanio:
• 16 Oswald: My Nanio 03:14
• She's Sweetest When She's Naked:
• 17 Oswald: She's Sweetest When She's Naked 03:39
• Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762): A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick:
• 18 Geminiani: A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: The Night Her Silent Sable Wore 05:11
• James Oswald: The Bottom of the Punch Bowl:
• 19 Oswald: The Bottom of the Punch Bowl 01:42
• Francesco Geminiani: A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick:
• 20 Geminiani: A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Oh Bessy Bell and Mary Gray 03:15
• George Frideric Handel: Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day, HWV 76:
• 21 Handel: Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: What Passion Cannot Music Raise and Quell 08:10
• Total Runtime 01:29:27

Info for A Night in London (Deluxe Edition)

In the 1730s, many composers tried their luck in London. Geminiani revolutionized instrumental writing with his famous treatise on interpretation and presented an amazing version of La Folia; his pupil Avison orchestrated concertos by Scarlatti, and Porpora ventured away from opera to rediscover the vocality of the cello with one of the most beautiful concertos of that period. Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella treat us to a frenzied and poetic night in London. They meet Vivaldi, Hasse, Scottish composer James Oswald and virtuoso cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri. Guest artists Sandrine Piau and Lucile Richardot take on magnificent vocal pieces by Geminiani and Handel.

Ophelie Gaillard, cello
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Pulcinella Orchestra

From Romance to tone poem, the cellist Ophélie Gaillard invites to an imaginary journey, both heroic and delicate, in the post-Romantic world of Richard Strauss.

Heart of the disc, the symphonic poem Don Quixote transforms the instruments into characters who play the epic adventures of Cervantes’ hero. Thus, Don Quixote, played by the cello, talks with Sancho Panza (the viola) or Dulcinea (the violin) in a luxuriant orchestral fresco, tender and sensual, where Strauss’ genius for melody unfolds with a touch of humour.

His exquisite expressiveness shines through the most intimate pieces that complete this program. Ophélie Gaillard’s warm lyricism agrees with the piano in the Romance and the Sonata in F major, or with the voice in the smooth accents of Morgen. As an ideal companion, the cellist’s enchanting bow leads to an irresistible music.

Ophélie Gaillard, violoncelle
Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Julien Masmondet, direction
Alexandra Conunova, violon
Dov Scheindlin, alto
Vassilis Varvaresos, piano
Beatrice Uria Monzon, mezzo-soprano

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Ophélie Gaillard
… could we read in the editorial published in the Diapason magazine of June 2011, (Ophélie Gaillard was awarded the Diapason d’Or for the Suites of Bach). The English Newspapers also underlined this appreciation. In August 2011, The Strad magazine wrote that “Gaillard was at the top “ whereas in 2007 The Times already welcomed her “wizard fingering, big lyrical heart, and kaleidoscope of colors”.

This brilliant Franco-Swiss musician embodies an insatiable curiosity, a taste for risk and an immoderate appetite for the whole of the concertante cello repertoire.

Voted “Revelation: Solo Instrumentalist of the Year” at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2003, she has since then appeared in recital at many prestigious venues.

Ophélie Gaillard is a child of Baroque. From a very young age, she was specialized in the early and classical cellos and soon shared the stage with Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm and Amaryllis. Then, in 2005, she found Pulcinella, a collective of virtuosos with a passion for performance practice on period instruments. The recordings devoted to Vivaldi, Boccherini and Bach reaped excellent ratings and several awards.

In 1998, she was the winner of the Leipzig Bach Competition. Then, in 2000 she recorded Bach’s complete Cello Suites for the Ambroisie label and enjoyed a great critical acclaim. She renewed that exploit in 2011, this time for the Aparté label, and received maximum ratings from Diapason, Strad magazine, etc.

Ophélie Gaillard also performs modern and contemporary works. She has made successful recordings of Britten’s complete cello suites or Pierre Bartholomée’s Oraison.

The Romantic repertoire is not neglected: she has successfully recorded the complete cello works of Schumann, Fauré, Chopin and Brahms.

She appears as a soloist with the Orchestre de Cannes-Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur, the Polish Radio Orchestra (Gabriel Chmura), the Orchestre de Picardie (Edmon Colomer), the European Camerata, the Franz Liszt Orchestra of Budapest, the New Japan Philharmonic under the baton of Werner Andreas Alpert, the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, the Romanian Radio Orchestra or else, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of James Judd.

Her solo album Dreams, made with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, proved to be a great public success.

A sought-after teacher, she regularly gives master classes in Europe, Asia and in Latin and Central America. She is invited as a member of the jury at the ARD competitions and is a professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva (HEM) since 2014.

She is regularly heard on radio (France Musique, France Culture, France Inter, Radio Classique, Espace 2, BBC Radio 3) and often appears on television (France 2, Mezzo, Arte).

In December 2015, her double-CD album Alvorada won over a vast audience and was named a ‘Star Recording’ by The Strad magazine. This programme, blending ‘highbrow’ and popular Spanish and South-American music went on tour in 2016 through France, Italy (MiTo festival), and Mexico (Cervantino Festival), in particular with the Brazilian singer Toquinho.

After the international success of her first album (Diapason d’Or in 2014, special recognition from the Strad magazine, concerts in France and Germany…), a second recording of CPE Bach for the Aparté Label will be released in 2016 with the Pulcinella Orchestra and incensed by the press (Diapason d’Or, Choc de la Musique Classica, ffff Télérama, Gramophone …).

She was invited to play for the prestigious concert series given at the honour court of the Prince’s Palace of Monaco. She subsequently recorded her next disc Exils (expected release in Spring 2017) around the concertos of Korngold and Bloch with the Philharmonic orchestra of Monte Carlo and supervised by James Judd.

Ophélie Gaillard plays a cello by Francesco Goffriller (1737), generously loaned to her by CIC, and also a Flemish violoncello piccolo (anonymous).

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