Envoi de Fleurs Sending of Flowers (1950) Jean Stelli, Tino Rossi, Micheline Francey, Jean Brochard, Drama

Les Vêpres Siciliennes is one of Verdi’s misunderstood operas. It is usually presented to audiences today as I vespri Siciliani - that is, in a clumsy and pedestrian Italian translation and as such gives a false representation of Verdi’s original concept. This opera was composed for the Paris Opera to a libretto by Eugene Scribe, one of the greatest poets of the day and Charles Duveyrier. Verdi embraces the French idiom – the musical forms, the orchestration, the vocal writing – with the same grandeur and sense of occasion as Rossini and Meyerbeer before him. Certainly to give an opera in translation is no crime but to continually deprive the public of this particularly beautiful marriage of text and music is close to criminal. This is the third in the Verdi Originals series and this BBC recording of the opera finally restores the original French libretto.

The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, which is among the very first compositions to be labelled “oratorio” in the sources, was composed in Rome in the 1640s. It was probably performed in the Oratorio di San Girolamo della Carità, where Filippo Neri held his esercizi spirituali. It appears in a manuscript source from the Barberini collection of the Vatican Library which doesn’t specify its composer— although this is usually identified as Luigi Rossi — but names Giulio Cesare Raggioli as the author of the text. Both Raggioli and Rossi worked for members of the Barberini family, who were close relations of pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini), and themselves powerful patrons of music and the arts. an opera.

Un agent immobilier vend des parcelles de la Lune aux particuliers, un homme invente l’autopsie en self-service, des bourreaux racontent les exécutions qu’ils ont pratiquées, un directeur de prison sadique fait vivre ses prisonniers sous la chaleur écrasante du désert…

Dans la mouvance de l'homéopathie, le docteur Bach a développé une typologie de fleurs destinée à favoriser l'équilibre émotionnel. Ce guide commence par retracer l'histoire, les fondements et les principes de cette méthode. Il présente ensuite l'ensemble des fleurs utilisées, leurs indications et leurs effets. Une série de schémas permet d'y recourir facilement dans des situations quotidiennes : grossesse, adolescence, convalescence, deuil…