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"Un mari à la porte" is an operetta in one act. This rarely performed work, first performed in 1859, is a highly amusing comedy in which the composer portrayed and mocked the quirks and vices of the French society of his time. In the end, love triumphs over everything. The carefree play with allusions and misunderstandings is accompanied by Offenbach's brilliant music, which gracefully blends into the rhythm of the dance: Polka, mazurka and especially waltzes.

Claude-Achille Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. André Caplet (November 23, 1878 – April 22, 1925) was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy. Florent Schmitt (September 28, 1870 – August 17, 1958) was a French composer; he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois, and Albert Lavignac and in 1900 he won the Prix de Rome.

Latin pop/rock band from Spain El Ultimo de la Fila was formed in the mid-'80s by Manolo García and Quimi Portet. Manolo was previously playing in a band called los Rápidos, along with José Luis Pérez, Luis Visiers, and Antonio Fidel. Quimi was playing in a group called Kul de Mandril. When these musicians met in 1982, they decided to start a new project named los Burros, inviting Jordi Vila and Antonio Fidel to join in, signing up to an independent label called Belter soon after. When los Burros broke up, García and Portet started playing as El Ultimo de la Fila, debuting with an album called Cuando La Pobreza Entra Por La Puerta, El Amor Sale Por La Ventana, which was followed by 1986's Enemigos De Lo Ajeno. A year later, the duet had the opportunity to perform at the Amnesty International show in Barcelona, playing along with Bruce Springsteen, Sting, and Peter Gabriel. After touring all over Spain and many countries in Latin America, El Ultimo de la Fila broke up in January of 1998. ~ Drago Bonacich, All Music Guide

The intellect of the Argentine musician Emilio Teubal is not the only facet of his musical personality to enjoy on his fine album Música Para Un Dragón Dormido (Music for a sleeping dragon). Mr. Teubal is also a fine storyteller with an unbridled imagination and playfulness that is reminiscent of his legendary countryman, the writer Jorge Luis Borges. Like the master littérateur, Mr. Teubal delves into the world of magical realism, which seems to be a universe where he spends much of his time as a composer of music. This gives his compositions great character, a sense of mystery and colourful playfulness that is rare in music today.

Maybe not everyone knows that in addition to his compositional prowess, Rossini was also a great pianist! ""My own private musical theatre"" falls in the year of the great celebrations for the composer from Pesaro, 150 years after his death. Concerto Classics offers a fresh, catchy and lively work that, in line with Rossini's taste for musical divertissement and for ironic and sly references to the most famous operatic themes loved by the audience, is studded with sparkling self-quotations. In the seventh track Rossini quotes himself several times, subtly and jokingly recalling the themes of the compositions that had already made him famous throughout the world in his day.

Hadj Brahim Cheb Khaled est né le 29 février 1960, dans le quartier Elkmine de Sidi El Houari, bourg situé dans la banlieue d’Oran (Algérie). Ses parents sont originaires d’un village dépendant de la division administrative de Mostaganem. C’est du balcon de la mairie de cette ville que le Général de Gaulle lancera le désormais historique : « Vive l’Algérie française ! »

Roch Voisine (né Joseph Armand Roch Voisine) voit le jour le 26 mars 1963 à Edmundston, dans la province canadienne du Nouveau-Brunswick au sein d’une famille de Québécois francophones. Atteint très jeune par ce virus typiquement canadien qu’est la pratique intensive du hockey sur glace, il passe ses années de collège et de lycée à évoluer dans plusieurs équipes de prestige et se destine à une carrière de sportif professionnel.

"The 1750 Project" propose un voyage de 1720 à 1750 pour découvrir à chaque étape la richesse et la spécificité de la vie musicale d’une ville à un moment important de son histoire. Pour la première étape du "1750 Project", nous nous arrêtons à Venise vers 1726, moment charnière de l’histoire de la musique, lorsque la rencontre de deux styles provoque un tournant esthétique. Dans la cité, alors dominée par Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), se trouvent plusieurs des meilleurs musiciens italiens : le Napolitain Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) et le Milanais Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750), qui s’apprête à révolutionner le monde des instruments à vent.La cité sur la lagune est un phare culturel et un passage obligé pour de nombreux nobles ou musiciens du Nord de l’Europe qui désirent compléter leur formation et leur culture. Plusieurs compositeurs allemands, dont Pisendel, Quantz, Hasse ou encore Haendel, passent par Venise au début du XVIIIe siècle, avant de retourner prêcher la bonne parole de la musique italienne dans leurs contrées. Mettons-nous donc, pour quelques instants, dans la peau d’un voyageur imaginaire découvrant la vie musicale de Venise vers 1726.