Chansons Francaises 2020

Pour son grand retour au disque après 5 années d’absence, la soprano de renommée internationale, Patricia Petibon dévoile son nouvel album « L’amour, la mort, la mer », accompagnée de la pianiste Susan Manoff, sa complice de longue date.
Pour Patricia, la musique semble tenir à ces figures mythiques que sont l’amour, la mer, la mort. L’amour devient marin, la mer devient éros, et la mort n’est plus morbide. La mort aime et voyage au cœur des représentations que lui donnent l’amour et la mer.

In 2025, France celebrates the 140th anniversary of Victor Hugo’s death, which occurred on 22 May 1885.Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, politician and activist, Hugo was a multifaceted figure who illuminated the 19th century.
With the album ‘Choses vues… et chantées!’, Pauline Courtin, Antoine Palloc and Christophe Barbier pay tribute to this towering figure.Soprano, pianist and narrator weave a dialogue between music and literature, combining songs composed on Hugo’s poetry by Fauré, Bizet, Liszt, Hahn, and Britten, with excerpts from Choses vues – a deeply personal journal chronicling a life of engagement.This musical reinterpretation highlights the enduring relevance of Hugo’s thought and reminds us how his visionary optimism can still light our way today.

S’aimer, c’est croire qu’on finira toujours par se retrouver. Même en plein chaos, même quand tout semble partir à la dérive. C’est avancer, sans trop savoir où ça nous mène, mais avec cette certitude étrange que tant qu’on reste ensemble, ça tiendra debout.

Sir Simon Rattle Over a career, including extended tenures with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle has become recognized as one of the world's top conductors. Mostly focusing on symphonic music, he has also conducted major operatic productions. A native of Liverpool, Rattle was born on January 19, 1955. He studied piano, violin, and percussion as a youngster, joining the Merseyside Youth Orchestra as a percussionist and later playing with Britain's National Youth Orchestra. He gravitated naturally toward conducting, taking up the baton in his early teens and founding his own orchestra, the Liverpool Sinfonia, when he was just 15.

The Cologne based Haesen & Breidenbach is a jazz / chansons françaises duo consisting of vocalist Charlotte Haesen and guitarist Philip Breidenbach. Together they effortlessly combine jazz, indie-folk and other musical influences from all over the world into their own heart felt and authentic sound.

Cyrille Dubois is unstoppable: after two albums dedicated to Liszt and the Boulanger sisters, both acclaimed by the critics, and a flamboyant complete set of Fauré songs, the tenor is back to his preferred repertoire, the French art-song. He reunites with his accomplice, pianist Tristan Raës, to bring the Bordeaux composer Louis Beydts (1895-1953) out of oblivion, most of whose pieces are recorded here for the first time.

Fidèle à son caractère généreux, Camelia Jordana voit double pour son quatrième disque. 20 chansons divisées en deux volets distincts : tel est le riche menu de ce Facile x Fragile, album pop et engagé de la chanteuse et actrice de 28 ans. Comme le prouve le morceau d’ouverture, c’est avant tout la place des femmes dans la société qui constitue le principal sujet de cet opus : Femmes est un hymne dans lequel Camelia Jordana expose avec une grande limpidité son combat féministe.