Bistrot Torano Castello

This disc is a real plucker’s delight featuring not only the skills of three leading mandolinists – Juan Carlos Muñoz, Mari Fe Pavón and Alla Tolkacheva – but also a continuo section consisting of baroque guitar, harpsichord and (anachronistically) Renaissance lute; even the violone and gamba are usually played pizzicato. Together they romp through a programme of concerti and sonatas by Dall’Abaco, Arrigoni, Matteis, Domenico Scarlatti, Johann Sigismund Weiss (rather than his more famous brother Sylvius Leopold), Fasch and of course Vivaldi; with a doffof their tricorns in the direction of earlier baroque composers Castello and Uccellini. This is joyous, glorious music-making.

Everybody will know by now that Elizabeth Wallfisch has a special interest, affection and regard for the 17th- and 18th-century Italian violin schools. She has already recorded much music by the likes of Tartini, Corelli, Locatelli and others with her group, The Locatelli Trio, and also with The Raglan Baroque Players under Nicholas Kraemer. Here is a varied and fascinating collection of pieces by some of the lesser-known composers from a generation or two earlier than those composers.

120 plats empruntés aux cartes de nos brasseries préférés !
La bistronomie fait son come-back. Quoi de plus franchouillard que ces petits plats empruntés aux cartes de nos brasseries préférées et qui font la renommée de notre chère gastronomie française? Voici 120 recettes qui vous feront saliver tant elles réveillent de bons souvenirs chez tout bon gastronome français qui se respecte…

Le chef étoilé propose plus de cent recettes de son savoir-faire culinaire, inspirées des classiques de la cuisine de bistrot : potage Crécy au lard de Paris, goujonnette de cabillaud, betterave rémoulade, saucisson de ris de veau, blanc de saint-pierre et jeunes carottes glacées au safran, bavarois rubané et pistache, glace de pêche au lait, etc. …