L’espresso Settembre 2024

With two successful albums and a sold-out world tour behind them, Paris-based L'Impératrice have evolved from an instrumental group founded by music critic Charles de Boisseguin into a six-piece powerhouse whose blend of funk and French touch, disco and deep house also includes the enchanting voice of singer Flore Benguigui.

With two successful albums and a sold-out world tour under their belt, Paris-based L'Imperatrice have matriculated from a good-times instrumental act created by music critic Charles de Boisseguin to a six-piece powerhouse whose sashaying mixes of funk and French Touch, disco and deep house now include the fetching vocals of singer Flore Benguigui. Their new album Pulsar, is a focused but far-reaching record, the jubilant testament of a band with plenty to say and the skills to say it themselves.

In an unprecedented four-handed recital, Thibault Cauvin and -M- (Matthieu Chedid) mirror their virtuosities, one acoustic, the other electric. An instrumental journey to the borders of classical music, pop and rock. T

New recordings of large-scale but little-known works by one of Beethoven’s most influential students.

Let go. Fall in. Follow the spiral, and find your centre. Move and whirl, headbang and hair whip, into a place that is out there and deep within, an altered state where minds open, boundaries fall away and trust - in values, principles, ourselves - is rediscovered, made real.

A substantial survey of a modern landmark in French organ literature, full of colour, mystery and joy.

A substantial survey of a modern landmark in French organ literature, full of colour, mystery and joy.

For their third recording for label Stradivarius, the duo singer & fischer have chosen to devote themselves to four Hispanic flavored works. With little original repertoire ­ despite the opuses that various composers have written for them in recent years ­ transcriptions, arrangements and other adaptations are usual in the ensemble’s work. However, not all works are easy to adapt, and the choice of pieces from among the ‘possibilities’ is often a difficult one. The transcriptions on this recording are the result of a process of reflection that goes back to the duo’s genesis. Their first attempts at De Falla or Granados took place in the 90s, a time when the youthfulness of the performerscertainly contributed to the enthusiasm essential to any musical interpretation, but when a lack of experience was abrake on any idea of immortalizing their concert attempts.