Georges Pretre

The Summer Night Concert will be performed this year on June 7. It is an annual open-air event, which has been held since 2004 in the magical setting of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna/Austria. The illustrious conductors who have previously led the orchestra at this event are Georges Prêtre, Daniel Barenboim, Franz Welser-Möst, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, Semyon Bychkov, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Andris Nelsons.

Quebecoises Katia and Marielle Labeque deliver strong performances of mid-20th-century French music from Francis Poulenc and concluding with a suite by Darius Milhaud. The release is consistently good, from the music to the performance to the sound engineering, and is highly recommended.

Over a remarkably long and illustrious career, Camille Saint-Saëns thrilled audiences around the world as a pianist and organist, shaped the course of musical life in France, and enriched a multitude of genres with some 600 works, all bearing witness to the mastery of his craft. Setting his best-known compositions in their dazzlingly diverse context, this edition invites exploration and discovery. It spans more than a century of recording history, encompassing a host of great instrumentalists, singers, conductors and orchestras, many of them from France. Setting the pace, in performances from as early as 1904, is the composer himself.

Un ordre religieux rassemble des personnes liées par des vœux solennels sous l'observance d'une règle religieuse. Essentiel dans le christianisme, il en existe aussi dans d'autres religions.
Dans le christianisme, c'est un ensemble d'hommes ou de femmes vivant un commun idéal de perfection « à la suite du Christ » (la sequela Christi) tel que défini par les orientations d'une règle religieuse propre. …

Voici rassemblé dans un pack 914 romans et récits sur l'histoire de l'humanité, qui connus de nombreuses péripéties et drames historiques avant d'arriver au temps présent.