Harmonia Mundi's Rebel: Elements – Vivaldi: Four Seasons combines two of the Baroque's biggest instrumental barnburners as performed by one of the top period instrument groups in Europe, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, under the leadership of concertmasters Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer and Georg Kallweit and featuring their star attraction, violinist Midori Seiler. Like Vivaldi's often derided as over-familiar Four Seasons, Jean-Féry Rebel's 1737 ballet Les Éléments does not want for good recordings, but it is nowhere near as famous as the Vivaldi; this is the first time the two have been combined on a recording, and these pieces are quite compatible given their shared, programmatic purposes.
Fils adoptif de Gorki, héros de la Légion étrangère, ambassadeur de France, grand séducteur, Zinovi Pechkoff, surnommé " le manchot magnifique ", est une légende oubliée du XXe siècle. À partir d'archives inédites, notamment sa correspondance avec Gorki, Guillemette de Sairigné signe la première grande biographie de Zinovi Pechkoff. …