Legende Gar Bald

Paul Christopher - La légende des templiers T.1 L'épée (408p. - Pocket 11 juin 2015)
Suivant une longue carrière dans l'armée américaine, entre le Viêt-Nam, l'Irak et l'Afghanistan, Peter Holliday enseigne désormais l'Histoire à l'Académie Militaire de West Point. À la mort de son oncle, professeur d'université, il reçoit de celui-ci une épée médiévale, retrouvée après la guerre à Berchtesgaden, dans le fameux " nid d'aigle " d'Adolf Hitler. …

The church bells that he heard aged four, walking in the streets of Zurich with his parents, were the point of departure for the young Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi who still remembers this moment as a shock that violently brought home the power of music. The sonic beauty and harmonic richness in the tolling of the bells set something off in his unconscious, sparking a lifelong quest for the timbres and sonorities that he is so deft at bringing to life on his piano. At the age of five, he tried to reproduce the sound of the bells on a little toy piano; at twelve, he played Grieg's Concerto in A Minor and started to perform in public. But two years later he became aware of the limits of his technical abilities and also of the strange tensions wracking his body.

A co-production with the Bru Zane Foundation, Naïve is delighted to release the world première recording of Saint Francis of Assisi by Gounod, whose bicentenary we celebrate in 2018. Under the direction of Laurence Equilbey, a world-class cast finally gives the work – complemented on disc by Liszt's Legend of Saint Cecilia – the exposure the musical world has been waiting for.