Founded in 2004 by violinist David Grimal, Les Dissonances continues its fascinating musical trip. They publish here a 3-CD set with the best of their unpublished recordings dedicated to 20th-century masterpieces.

The pack includes Bartok’s Divertimento for Strings, Chamber Symphonies by Shostakovich and Schoenberg, Bernstein’s Serenade for solo violin and Schnittke’s two brilliant ‘humoreskes’.

The pack includes, as a video bonus, the film of the complete Brahms symphonies available in online streaming.

The group’s first recording, Métamorphoses on the Ambroisie-Naïve label, featuring Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, was enthusiastically received by the critics, receiving the ffff de Télérama, BBC Music Choice, and Arte Sélection. Its Beethoven disc (Symphony no.7 and Violin Concerto), released in October 2010, again received the ffff deTélérama and featured in Le Monde’s selection of the year’s best CDs. All profits from the next two recordings, The Four Seasons by Vivaldi and Piazzolla (2010) and Beethoven’s Fifth (2011, again honoured by the ffff de Télérama), were donated to the association Les Margéniaux, which supports the projects of homeless people. In December 2013, Les Dissonances launched its own label, Dissonances Records, with Brahms’s Violin Concerto and Fourth Symphony. The recording was chosen as the recommended version by the Tribune des Critiques de Disques de France Musique.