Mi Iubita, Mon Amour (2021)

Isabelle Valot is the winner of the 7th edition of Prodiges, the popular annual French TV competition for young classical musicians

Following their Linn debut, a "breathtaking album of songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler" (The Herald), Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper return to fin-de-siècle Europe for a recital of songs by the "crème de la crème" of late nineteenth-century French speaking composers. Entitled "Fleur de mon âme", the album embraces the sensual soundworld of Hahn, Debussy, Chausson, Jongen and Duparc.

Isabelle Valot is the winner of the 7th edition of Prodiges, the popular annual French TV competition for young classical musicians.With the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and conductor Romain Dumas, and Paul Ji at the piano accompanying her on “Après un rêve” and “Le secret” (Fauré); “Les Chemins de l’Amour” (Poulenc); The Wizard of Oz: “Over the rainbow” (Harburg).A clever mixture of opera arias (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro: “Porgi Amor”; Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music; Adolphe Adam’s “O Holy Night”), musicals (West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music) and songs.

The Cologne based Haesen & Breidenbach is a jazz / chansons françaises duo consisting of vocalist Charlotte Haesen and guitarist Philip Breidenbach. Together they effortlessly combine jazz, indie-folk and other musical influences from all over the world into their own heart felt and authentic sound.

Experience, as we all know, is one of an artist's most valuable resources. The irreplaceable ability to distinguish between the important and the unimportant, and to always proceed with the right timing instead of being guided by nervous impatience, effortlessly outweighs youthful verve and a natural love of experimentation

Following their Linn debut, a "breathtaking album of songs by Gustav and Alma Mahler" (The Herald), Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper return to fin-de-siècle Europe for a recital of songs by the "crème de la crème" of late nineteenth-century French speaking composers. Entitled "Fleur de mon âme", the album embraces the sensual soundworld of Hahn, Debussy, Chausson, Jongen and Duparc.

El 4 de julio de 1966 nace en Vitória (país Vasco Español) José Antonio Ogara, aunque con apenas un mes de vida emigró a Francia con su familia, para volver a su ciudad natal a la edad de 10 años.
A los 14 empezó a formar parte de varios grupos de rock e hizo sus primeros conciertos y apariciones en televisión como guitarrista y cantante de la banda Osiris, en la década de los 90 puso su voz en cientos de jingles publicitarios para radios y televisión hasta que fue descubierto por compositores y artistas de la talla de José Luís Armenteros o Miguel Gallardo, es entonces que comienza a componer para los más grandes de la música española (más de 300 canciones publicadas en las voces de Dyango, Sergio Dalma, Raúl … etc.)

À l'occasion de la St Valentin, retrouvez les plus belles chansons d'amour de DALIDA dans ce double album. Icône incontestée de la chanson française, Dalida nous accompagne depuis toujours dans chaque moment de nos vies et particulièrement lors des étapes amoureuses, l'occasion pour chacun de s'identifier aux chansons de Dalida qui s'inscrivent dans une modernité absolue.

«Non avrei mai immaginato di potermi trovare, all'alba di un giorno di maggio del 2016, sulla spiaggia del Pas-de-Calais abbracciata a un migrante iraniano, che stringevo a me con la forza disperata di un naufrago. Prima del mio incontro con Mokhtar e con tanti altri migranti, non mi ero mai chiesta quanto coraggio, quanta forza e quanta dignità servissero per arrivare fin qui partendo dall'altra parte del mondo. Arrivare senza niente. Senza nessuno. Completamente soli.» La voce di Béatrice, quarantenne di Calais con un passato da simpatizzante del Front National di Marine Le Pen, è quella di una donna innamorata di un amore inatteso, del tutto estraneo a ogni previsione, eppure così reale da farle rivoluzionare la propria esistenza…