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Dominican Jazz pianist Michel Camilo recorded "Rhapsody in Blue" with the 95-piece Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. You might expect his freewheeling, Latin-percussive style to bring a new heat and sparkle to the work. While Camilo, no stranger to classical music, provides an enjoyable ride through George Gershwin's popular favorite, injecting some subtle swing touches, his treatment is otherwise pretty standard.

Versailles 400 was a unique hybrid artistic creation specifically crafted by Jean-Michel Jarre to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Château de Versailles. On December 25, 2023, the concert-event became an opportunity for the musician, widely hailed as the Godfather of Electronic Music, to celebrate contemporary French innovation while bridging the past to the future through his innovative approach to spectacular live events. The event took place in a location that had been the origin of an incredible artistic revolution, paying homage to the grand royal festivities that had marked the history of the world-famous Château de Versailles, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Michel Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. He is best known for his often haunting, jazz-tinged film music. This is an unusual album for Michel Legrand – a suite of tracks based around 20th Century standards – starting with older evergreens, and moving into some very hip tunes from the 60s! The orchestrations are amazing – with tones, colors, and rhythmic approaches that surpass conventional expectations for many of the tunes – and which are handled in a mixture of lushness and loneliness that recalls Legrand’s strongest soundtrack work of the time.

Dominican Jazz pianist Michel Camilo recorded "Rhapsody in Blue" with the 95-piece Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. You might expect his freewheeling, Latin-percussive style to bring a new heat and sparkle to the work. While Camilo, no stranger to classical music, provides an enjoyable ride through George Gershwin's popular favorite, injecting some subtle swing touches, his treatment is otherwise pretty standard.

Pianist and composer Michel Camilo is renowned for combining rich harmonies with the Caribbean flavors and Latin rhythms of his native Dominican Republic. With his flawless technique and contemporary outlook, he incorporates a wide variety of jazz elements into his work, citing McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and Erroll Garner as some of his influences. One of the most important jazz musicians to emerge in the past decade, Camilo marks his move to Telarc with Triangulo, his most adventurous yet accessible recording to date.

"En attendant Cousteau" (English title: "Waiting for Cousteau") is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday.

At the intersection of classical music and jazz, the French composer and pianist Jean-Christophe Cholet is a master in making small intense parts, without artifice. Whispers on it revives Matthieu Michel, his partner of 20 years, to put together the foundations of a hushed but profound dialogue as a long continuous breath.

César Franck was an architect of sounds. "My organ is an orchestra", he famously declared. Thanks to the genius of the organ builder Cavaillé-Coll the beauty of the organ of the basilica of Saint- Sernin in Toulouse illuminates an oeuvre of immense musical intensity. Michel Bouvard talks about his passion for Franck's world and offers us a few hints about how to listen to it.

"Zoolook" is the fourth overall mainstream studio album by Jean Michel Jarre, and released on the Disques Dreyfus label in 1984. It makes extensive use of digital recording techniques and sampling. Much of the music is built up from singing and speech in 25 different languages, along with synthesizers, as well as more traditional instruments. In his time, "Zoolook" was the one of the first compact discs labeled as DDD: digitally recorded, mixed and mastered.