Lully, Handel, Charpentier, Scheidt, Biber, Schein, Cabanilles, Dumanoir, Rosenmüller, Jenkins, Cererols, Blow: this double SACD-book gathers the who’s-who of European music, to mention but a few, of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries. Deeply affected by the Thirty Years War as well as the War of Spanish Succession, the finest music inspired by this turmoil is vividly performed by Jordi Savall and his ensembles. The set ends with a fantastic and complete performance of Handel’s 'Jubilate Deo'.
This release by The Tallis Scholars, the seventh of nine in a project to record the complete masses of Josquin des Prez, explores two unique and contrasting works. Missa Gaudeamus represents Renaissance artistry at its most intense. Based on the first six notes of a chant melody, it deploys mathematics in a number of clever ways. Missa L'ami Baudichon represents Renaissance artistry at its most playful. It is based on just three notes from a secular folksong that sounds distractingly like the opening of Three Blind Mice. Known as the most adventurous composer of his time, Josquin's restless, searching intellect is on display in all his works.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed six cantatas for the Christmas holidays in 1734, to have one performed for each particular holiday during services in the main churches of Leipzig, St. Thomas and St. Nicholas. Both the narrative march of the Gospel and the tonality in which the musical framework was composed, give the cantatas a character of an autonomous cycle that Jordi Savall and his groups face for the first time.
Endangered Species: A Compilation Of Rare And Obscure Tracks is a 2000 compilation album by British singer-songwriter Des'ree. As suggested by its title, it is not a greatest hits compilation, but a collection of assorted b-side only tracks, songs from soundtracks, and live versions of her hits from her first three albums. The selection features five b-sides from her different singles (with "Warm Hands, Cold Heart", a b-side to "You Gotta Be" being a new mix specially done for the compilation), five live songs, an acoustic mix, the song "Silent Hero" which was recorded for the 1995 film Clockers, and one then-unreleased song, "Soul Mates". It is Des'ree's only compilation to date. Des'ree was taking time off from music at the time to focus on her private life and the making of her fourth album Dream Soldier and therefore did not promote the album, which did not chart.
Cette petite histoire des mathématiques s'adresse en premier lieu à tous ceux qui étudient ou enseignent les mathématiques mais aussi plus largement à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'histoire des sciences.
L'ouvrage dresse un panorama historique des mathématiques : des origines, Euclide et la numération, à la cryptographie, jusqu'aux développements récents et leurs applications (météorologie, modélisation des écosystèmes, GPS, internet…), sans oublier les mathématiques venues d'ailleurs (algèbre arabe, arithmétique chinoise…).
La quatrième édition complètement refondue et réactualisée de cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions des plus grands spécialistes de la formation et fournit un panorama des savoirs de référence des sciences et techniques de la formation aujourd'hui.
Une oeuvre polémique, publiée en 1931, consacrée à Edouard Drumont, l'auteur de "La France juive". Bernanos entreprend non pas de justifier mais d'expliquer les thèses de Drumont, en les replaçant dans leur contexte historique et social. Il dresse le tableau des contradictions qui parcouraient le paysage politique et intellectuel français des années 1920 et 1930…