Georges Pretre

Guillaume, issu d'un modeste lignage, est né au milieu du XIIème siècle. Champion de tournois jusqu'à quarante ans, il a servi fidèlement les Plantagenêts : Henri II, son fils aîné Henri le Jeune et les cadets Richard Cœur de Lion et Jean Sans Terre. En récompense, on lui a donné pour femme l'un des plus beaux partis d'Angleterre. …

A l'An Mil romantique, antithèse apocalyptique de la Renaissance, l'école historique française oppose un An Mil appelé à devenir classique : tournant majeur où s'opère, dans l'attente de la fin du monde, le passage d'une religion rituelle et liturgique à un christianisme d'action. Richer, Gerbert, Helgaud, Adémar de Chabannes et Raoul Glaber ne sont ici traités qu'en témoins d'une conversion psychologique et mentale. De Charlemagne et Cluny aux pèlerins de Saint-Jacques et du Saint-Sépulcre, aux croisés bientôt : temps d'espoir et de crainte, millénaire de l'incarnation que les contemporains vécurent comme la promesse d'une nouvelle Alliance, un nouveau printemps du monde. …

Grand prix du roman de l’Académie française en 1936, l’année de sa parution, Journal d’un curé de campagne est considéré comme l’un des chefs-d’œuvre de la littérature française du XXe siècle.
Le roman décrit l’existence discrète d’un jeune prêtre catholique dans la petite paroisse artésienne d'Ambricourt dans le nord de la France. …

This CD has two of the best arias every Callas fan should have….the bell song and la mamma morta these arias alone make this cd worth it….she shows her true power and agility in both of these arias that display what is called perfect technique….making her a true Dramatic Colortura singer…and maybe the only real one…but this cd has more it contains an aria from her famous role of Nedda from Pagliacci which she never did on stage so this is a real treat… and her Carmen is always perfectly done…this cd runs through so many beautiful arias and Callas did great in all of them…this is why we call her La Divina

Henri Dutilleux, born in 1916, is a 96 years old young man who has made his own way in the jungle of the musical world of the second half of the 20th Century, ignoring the trends, continuing in his own perspective the path of French modern music opened by Debussy and Ravel. This 5-CD collection is a wonderful panorama, ideal to discover and love this music, featuring for the first time on CD a wonderful performance of the 1st Symphony by the Orchestre National de Lille and Jean-Claude Casadesus as well as the original recording of Le Loup, one of the most important ballets written after 1945, both recorded in the presence of the composer.

The orchestra is based in Turin, where it presents an annual season, as well as performing in special concert series. Since 2013 it has also taken part in classical music festivals held in the Piazza San Carlo, events organised each summer by Turin City Council. It is frequently invited to perform at major festivals such as the MITO SettembreMusica, the Venice Biennale, Ravenna Festival and the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini, and plays a leading role in events such as the Assisi Christmas concerts, which are broadcast worldwide, and the celebrations held to mark Italy’s Republic Day.

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the greatest media event in classical music, Sony Classical released in 2015 a complete edition of all the works ever played at the Wiener Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Concerts. Performed in the “Golden Hall” of the Musikverein between 1941 and 2015, the iconic live performances were issued for the first time in a single box set of 23 CDs. Now, in 2020, this edition will be available as a 26-CD extended version, with all the new repertoire from the last five years compiled on three additional CDs.

Victoria de los Angeles was one of the finest lyric sopranos in the decades after World War II. She was born Victoria Gómez Cima. She learned to sing and play piano and guitar while still in school. She entered the Conservatorio de Liceo in Barcelona to study piano and singing, completing the six-year program in three, and graduating with full honors at the age of 18. Her membership in the Conservatory's Ars Musicae gave her wide exposure to the art song repertory and Baroque and Renaissance music.

Katia and Marielle Labèque are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music) and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide.