Michel Thomas

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, György Vashegyi - Ambroise Thomas: Psyché (2025) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 30, 2025

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, György Vashegyi - Ambroise Thomas: Psyché (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:20:29 | 602 Mb
Genre: Classical

Premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 26 January 1857, Ambroise Thomas’s Psyché tells the story of the ill-starred love between Eros and Psyche, who are manipulated by the cynical Mercury and envied by Daphne and Berenice, the heroine’s own sisters. The style of the work represents the nec plus ultra of mid-nineteenth-century French opéra-comique, notably in the Italianate influence of Rossini, which gives the singers of the two leading roles – one of which, Eros, is a breeches part for mezzo-soprano – a chance to glitter amid torrents of coloratura poured forth in impressive, passionate love duets. The librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré achieved an inspired blend of comedy and tragedy by contrasting a quartet of cruel and grotesque characters (Psyche’s sisters and their suitors) with the noble hero and heroine. Ambroise Thomas’s music does not merely foreshadow the future triumphs of Mignon and Hamlet: it is worthy to stand beside them at the pinnacle of his operatic legacy, as his obituarists declared. This recording confirms their judgment.

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Virginie Thomas - Mademoiselle Hilaire (Lully, Lambert, Cavalli) (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 27, 2025

Virginie Thomas, Maud Gnidzaz, Juliette Perret, Anaïs Bertrand, Romain Falik, Emmanuel Resche-Caserta, Robin Pharo - Mademoiselle Hilaire (Lully, Lambert, Cavalli) (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 78:19 minutes | 1,41 GB
Classical,V ocal | Label: Encelade, Official Digital Download

Nicknamed ‘the human crystal’, Hilaire Dupuis (1625-1709) was one of the leading singers in Lully’s court ballets and early comedy ballets. Sister-in-law of Michel Lambert, she performed his court airs and his Leçons de ténèbres. She was a true musical accomplice of the famous theorbo player and composer, with whom she lived for many years. Jean-Baptiste Lully, who married her niece Madeleine Lambert, was also their illustrious roommate.

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Thomas Dunford, Jean Rondeau - Barricades: Couperin, de Visée, Lambert, Marais, Charpentier, Rameau, Forqueray (2020) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 9, 2025

Both of us have grown up with this music from the cradle of our earliest infancy; […] It is music that allowed us to become what we are, while at the same time encouraging us to question things constantly. […] Now, playing the music – because, as we all know, we play rather than make music – has become a part that each of us plays, played here as a double act. Each one for himself, with his instrument as a crucible, and at the same time each of us for the other, since after all we are engaged in a performance.

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François Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux, "La contamination du monde" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Jan. 24, 2021

Autrefois sources de nuisances locales circonscrites, les effets des activités humaines sur l'environnement se sont transformés en pollutions globales. Le climat se réchauffe, les mers s'acidifient, les espèces disparaissent, les corps s'altèrent : en rendre compte d'un point de vue historique permet de ne pas sombrer dans la sidération ni dans le découragement face à un processus qui semble devenu inéluctable. …

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«The Guardian's Heart» by Michel Prince eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Gelsomino at Sept. 27, 2019

«The Guardian's Heart» by Michel Prince
English | ISBN: 9781680463002 | EPUB | 0.5 MB

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Michel HAUMONT : SEPTEMBRE (1993) Music

Posted by grazubi at Feb. 3, 2010

Michel HAUMONT : SEPTEMBRE (1993)
Easy CD-DA Rip | Flac | No Cue, No Log | covers | 236 Mb

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Sting - Michel Comte Nude Photoshoot - 4xUHQ Graphics

Posted by FatGarry at July 11, 2011

Sting - Michel Comte Nude Photoshoot - 4xUHQ
4 JPG | up to 3090*3543 | UHQ | 6.52 Mb
English musician, singer-songwriter, actor

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George Robert - George Robert Plays Michel Legrand (2016) Music

Posted by tomashass at July 10, 2016

George Robert - George Robert Plays Michel Legrand (2016)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 00:54:28 | 126 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Claves Records

One of the finest jazz musicians born in Switzerland, altoist George Robert has long considered his main influences to be Charlie Parker and Phil Woods. He started on piano when he was eight, and clarinet at ten, playing with a family band that included his four brothers. Robert switched permanently to alto as a teenager. In 1980, he moved to the United States to study at Berklee, settling in New York in 1985. Robert recorded his first album that year (for his GPR label), and in 1987, formed a quintet that he co-led with trumpeter Tom Harrell on and off through 1992. George Robert, who has toured with Clark Terry, has recorded many albums as a leader for Contemporary, TCB, Mons, and Jazz Focus.

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Denis Demonpion, "Houellebecq: La biographie d'un phénomène" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Dec. 3, 2019

Depuis le succès phénoménal des Particules élémentaires, en 1998, Michel Houellebecq a collectionné les best-sellers, acquérant un statut de rock star rarissime en littérature. Il a enflammé le débat public, connu des revers, repris du poil de la bête et pris de l’âge. …

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Jean-Michel Guenassia, "A Dieu vat" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Sept. 3, 2023

En 1924, Irène, alors serveuse dans une guinguette des bords de Marne, rencontre Georges, un menuisier pour les studios de cinéma de Bry-sur-Marne qui ressemble à s'y méprendre à Rudolph Valentino. Ensemble, ils donnent naissance à quatre filles, dont Arlène, l'aînée, qui, malgré son extraction modeste, finit par devenir l'une des premières femmes ingénieures atomiques en France. …

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