Michel Thomas

Meow Meow & Thomas Lauderdale - Hotel Amour (2019) {Heinz Records ‎HNZ035}
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© 2019 Heinz Records ‎| HNZ035
Pop / Jazz / Chanson / Levenslied / Vocal

Hotel Amour is the musical love affair between Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale and the crowd-surfing post-modern diva Meow Meow, backed by members of Pink Martini. These two friends have performed and composed together across the globe for years, from the backstreet bars of Berlin to the glamorous stage of the Sydney Opera House, from London's legendary Royal Albert Hall to Mary's Club, Portland's legendary strip club. Hotel Amour features several sparkling originals alongside exquisite journeys into the French, German and Shanghainese canon of the 20th century, with alluring tastes of the 1920s and 30s, bittersweet tragedy, humor, politics, witty Weimar, and aching French torch song. And the album includes joyful duets with fabulous guests, including Rufus Wainwright, Barry Humphries (of Dame Edna fame), and The von Trapps, as well as a very special live recording with the legendary late French pianist and composer Michel Legrand.

The operas of Grétry are seldom recorded, and even less often performed, today. The composer was for a time the personal director of music to Marie-Antoinette and there is a strong vein of pretty artificiality which can seem at best trivial in unsympathetic hands. The present recording is certainly not in such hands as Beecham had a particular liking for the music of Grétry and his contemporaries.

The Appointment was a 1969 drama starring Omar Sharif as a lonely Italian attorney who romances and weds a beautiful model (Anouk Aimee)—all the while suspecting that she is a highly priced prostitute. Although directed by Sidney Lumet, The Appointment was a troubled production that led to its receiving three fully recorded scores by four composers. FSM's premiere release of the original soundtrack features selections from each—making for a rare and fascinating look at three different approaches for a single film.

Two icons of French song – Natalie Dessay and Michel Legrand – follow the huge worldwide success of their album Entre Elle et Lui with a DVD of the very special concert on the 11th June 2014 at the Orangerie of the Château de Versailles. This is a unique collaboration from two giants of French music. The CD release in 2013 was hotly anticipated and received great critical acclaim upon its release. Natalie Dessay brings her lyrical voice and fresh interpretations to a selection of some of Michel Legrand’s best-loved songs including La Valse des Lilas, Les moulins de mon cœur (Windmills of Your Mind), Duo de Guy et Geneviève, Papa Can You Hear Me and many more.

Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is known as a great jazz, latin and classical pianist with superb technical ability, and has played and recorded with many world-famous musicians. Michel lists some of his main influences as Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Art Tatum.

Under the artistic direction of Richard Galliano, the greatest artists of Jazz and Song will gather on stage to celebrate in music the memory of the composer. Accompanied by Michel Legrand’s big-band, Natalie Dessay, Michel Portal, Ibrahim Maalouf, Bireli Lagrene, Sylvain Luc, Nana Mouskouri, Marie Oppert and many others will pay homage to his incomparable career and share their emotion in music.

« Dialoguiste, c’est le seul boulot du cinéma qui ne s’apprenne pas », disait Michel Audiard.
Les répliques de Michel Audiard sont entrées au Panthéon du cinéma ainsi que dans la mémoire collective. Mais d'où les sortait-il ? En réalité, il puisait dans ses souvenirs, ses lectures, ses connaissances et ses rencontres. Sous la casquette de Michel Audiard nous livre l'origine des réparties les plus célèbres du « P'tit cycliste »…