Diane Dufresne, Michel Cusson État de Siège (2024)

Rediscover the brilliance of Handel’s 8 harpsichord suites from 1720! Handel composed these suites not only as performance pieces but also as teaching material, possibly to support himself financially after his father’s death and before his opera ventures. Despite their educational purpose, Handel’s suites were crafted with artistic sophistication, demanding skill and interpretation from performers.

" Vous êtes atteint d'une alopécie androgénétique. - Pardon ? - Vous êtes atteint d'une calvitie, comme on dit. " Les mots du dermatologue sonnent comme une condamnation. Julien a vingt-deux ans, son crâne se dégarnit et ce n'est que le début. Le début de la chute. Dix ans et pas mal de cheveux perdus plus tard, il se décide à partir pour Istanbul, capitale en vogue de l'implant capillaire. …

Guy Braunstein, who was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for nearly fifteen years, pursues an international career as soloist, conductor and composer. Inspired by a period of Beatlemania at home with his family, Braunstein wove a dozen songs from the Beatles’ celebrated Abbey Road album into a concerto for violin and orchestra entitled Abbey Road Concerto.

Henri Sauguet stampeded in the musical milieu when he was barely twenty, as co-founder with his mentor Erik Satie of the ephemeral École d’Arcueil. His orchestral music, inspired by the Six, is very French in tone: light, elegant, not demonstrative but straightforward. Sauguet earnt his biggest successes in ballet, his most revered score being the rarely recorded Les forains (The Carneys), choreographed by Roland Petit, empathic depiction of a modest troop of street artists. Featuring conductor Michel Plasson & coupled with the Tableaux de Paris, a set of lovely pictures of the most emblematic places of the capital.

Oscar Février est détective au sein de l’agence Aletheia. Lorsqu’il se retrouve face au cadavre de son amour de jeunesse, Brigitte Merlier, Février est sous le choc. L’enquête de Valérie Granger, la belle commissaire divisionnaire, ne l’empêche pourtant pas de mener ses propres investigations. Il découvre alors que la victime s’apprêtait à signer un contrat à six chiffres avec une maison d’édition, mais le texte reste introuvable. …