Le Coeur Sur La Main

No one is more closely attuned to Poulenc's world than Pascal Roge, and his presence ensures the authenticity of feeling which runs through all these performances: his playing is both imaginative and inspiriting…The chamber music is hardly less appealing…The performances have a wonderful freshness and convey a real sense of delight.

French pianist Gabriel Tacchino was a student of Poulenc and has made that modest master's piano music his own. Piano Melodies is a compilation of recordings made between 1966 and 1985, plus a couple of new recordings made by Tacchino in old age: the opening "Les chemins de l'amour," from the incidental music to Jean Anouilh's Léocadia, and the "Rustique" movement from the Sonata for piano four hands.

L'histoire a dressé des frontières entre la tête et la main, la pratique et la théorie, l'artisan et l'artiste, le fabricant et l'utilisateur. La société contemporaine souffre de cet héritage. R. Sennett oppose les valeurs de l'artisanat à la dégradation des formes de travail : l'artisan est ainsi le coeur, la source, le moteur d'une société où priment l'intérêt général et la coopération. …

This is my favorite Sutherland collection. It has so much from so many periods. The bits from The French Opera Gala are beyond belief. It is some of the best coloratura she ever did and was recorded at a great part of her career. Both the Wagner and the Mozart discs were recorded when she was close to 60, which doesn't mean that much with Sutherland. Still it would have been great to have heard the Wagner recorded a decade earlier when she recorded the Turandot. She would have been better at Wagner than anyone around today. Not Nilsson or Flagstad's equal, but better by far than Voigt, who isn't bad. On the Mozart bits, a couple sound old, but the rest are as good a performance of Mozart as you are ever going to hear. Many people only like the young Sutherland, but I like the color and richness her voice developed with age.

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Huit nouvelles qui évoquent, entre autres sujets, la magie et l'admiration que provoque la scène, du théâtre à l'opéra. …