New Album Releases: FORMIDABLE ! (Thomas Oliemans, Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Candida Thompson)

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Artist:
Thomas Oliemans
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
68:15

Record Label:
Channel Classics

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
October 29, 2021



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Product Description: Thomas Oliemans has had French chansons in his head for as long as he can remember: on a scratchy car radio or a cassette player, in the back seat for hours on end on the way to the Vendee or Dordogne, or softly issuing from a gramophone record in his father's study. When he started to learn the piano and got into the habit of singing along, it was obviously French chansons that he picked up by ear and sang entirely phonetically. The French teachers at Oliemans's secondary school enter him in the Concours de la Chanson, which he promptly (and nearly by accident) won. And all of a sudden, the path opened up for him to become a professional singer or pianist. It led into the world of classical singing, opera, lied and oratorio, but the chanson was never far away. On Formidable!, he is joined by Amsterdam Sinfonietta for a recital of old friends.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Variations symphoniques by Amsterdam Sinfonietta (1:45)

2 . Sous le ciel de Paris (Arr. by Wijnand van Klaveren) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (3:23)

3 . Boum! (Arr. Gérard Daguerre) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (2:09)

4 . La mer (Arr. by Wijnand van Klaveren) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (3:48)

5 . For me Formidable & Formidable (Arr. Bob Zimmerman) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (5:14)

6 . String Quartet Op. 10: Andantino (Version for String Orchestra) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta (7:24)

7 . Les Parapluies de Cherbourg: Je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi (Arr. Bob Zimmerman) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (5:22)

8 . The Thomas Crown Affair: Les moulins de mon coeur (Arr. Bert van den Brink) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (4:12)

9 . L'Île aux mimosas (Arr. Gérard Daguerre) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (4:23)

10 . Dis, quand reviendras-tu? (Arr. Gérard Daguerre) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (4:06)

11 . Et maintenant (Arr. Leonard Evers) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (5:05)

12 . Mathilde (Arr. Leonard Evers) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (2:33)

13 . Mon enfance (Arr. Bert van den Brink) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (5:15)

14 . Pelléas et Mélisande, Op.80: Prélude (Arr. Wijnand van Klaveren) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (5:01)

15 . Les prénoms de Paris (Arr. Leonard Evers) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (3:22)

16 . Les feuilles mortes (Arr. Bob Zimmerman) by Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Thomas Oliemans (5:20)

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