Millenium 4

À Stockholm, un SDF est retrouvé mort dans un parc du centre-ville certains de ses doigts et orteils amputés. Dans les semaines précédant sa mort, on l avait entendu divaguer au sujet de Johannes Forsell, le ministre de la Défense suédois. S agissait-il des délires d un déséquilibré ou y avait-il un véritable lien entre ces deux hommes ? Michael Blomqvist a besoin de l aide de Lisbeth Salander. Mais cette dernière se trouve à Moscou, où elle a l intention de régler ses comptes avec sa s ur Camilla. …

Semele is a masterpiece. For what else can one call a drama in which the perfect symbiosis of text and music conjures up such suggestive power? ‘To hold the mind, the ears and the eyes equally spellbound’: this recommendation by La Bruyère (Les Caractères: ‘Les ouvrages de l'esprit’) refers to the ‘machine plays’ so adored by the public in the Baroque period. But even without machinery or indeed without sets or real staging, Handel’s oratorio involves us in the tragic fate of his heroine with supreme skill.

MILLENIUM is a Polish five-piece neo-progressive band with Polish vocals on their 1st album and English vocals dominating after their 2nd production, generally in the PENDRAGON and early MARILLION styles but also with some spices of PINK FLOYD and classical GENESIS…

Julie Roset, a young French soprano from Avignon, immediately attracted attention with her first recital for Ricercar (Nun danket alle Gott with Clematis) and went on to record a recital of works by Sigismondo d'India with Mariana Flores that met with great critical acclaim. In this new recording she tackles several of Handel’s masterpieces on religious themes: his Salve Regina , Gloria and the motet Silete venti were all composed at the time when the young Handel had been inspired to new heights by his discovery of Roman musical life.