Les Sauteurs

Un grand livre illustré de photos spectaculaires pour partir à la découverte des insectes et des bestioles! On y présente les espèces par catégories : les insectes sociaux, ceux qui se camouflent, les sauteurs et les chanteurs, les araignées et les mille-pattes.

Harpsichordist Michael Borgstede has undertaken the huge task of recording all of the 27 Ordres, over 200 pieces, François Couperin (the great) wrote for this keyboard instrument.

Noëlle Spieth (Solstice, record 1990-2003): the inescapable reference, with recordings that have matured over 13 years, thanks to a courageous independent label. Under the agile fingers of Noëlle Spieth, an incessant kaleidoscope of multicolored images unfolds, as the artist approaches Couperin as a painter. Never the enigmatic titles of each piece will have borne their names as well, real sketches on the spot, affectionate or ironic, without ever malice. The key word of Noëlle Spieth is movement and contrast. Alternately capable of brushing teeming storms, of approaching movements in the luthed style with emotion and modesty, the harpsichordist moves and surprises each note.

In his Second Book of harpsichord pieces, Couperin moves away from the suite form based on a collection of dance movements, to a new conception consisting of a collection of miniatures with fanciful nicknames, some of which are clear, and some of which remain a mystery to this day. Couperin loved the harpsichord–he wrote one of the definitive instructional manuals for the instrument–and this set also includes the eight Preludes that he included in his L'Art de toucher le clavecin. At the time these discs were first issued, it was clear that Christophe Rousset's survey of Couperin's complete keyboard works was setting new standards in this music. His playing is simply magnificent.

The harpsichord music of François Couperin (1668 –1733) is without question some of the instrument’s most important repertoire. His treatise L’art de toucher le clavecin [The Art of Harpsichord Playing, 1716] outlines the principles of good harpsichord playing, with information on ornaments, fingerings, and touch, and includes eight preludes and an Allemande. His four monumental volumes of harpsichord music contain over 230 individual pieces, and rare is the player who undertakes learning the entirety of this body of work. Davitt Moroney, a performer-scholar who has already recorded the complete works of Byrd and Louis Couperin, as well as the complete Well-Tempered Clavier, is currently recording these works for the Plectra label on magnificent antiques from the Flint Collection in Wilmington, Delaware.

Qu'est-ce qui réunit la mort d'un père sous un ciel sans étoiles, un jardin d'enfance, l'enfouissement d'un spéléologue, les fragrances d'un champagne de 1921, le hérisson des tziganes, la coquille d'un mollusque, l'anguille des Sargasses, un ver parasite, le vin biodynamique, la poésie des peuples sans écriture, un masque africain, des haricots sauteurs, des acacias qui communiquent, un philosophe zoophile, des végétariens exploiteurs de poules, des porcs en batterie, des toréadors habillés en femmes, …