Nouveau Ensemble

Admired for her remarkable creative imagination and exemplary musicianship, soprano Patricia Petibon, in her newest album for Deutsche Grammophon, offers a treasure-trove of fascinating Baroque curiosities guaranteed to enthral both the Baroque aficionado and the casual listener.

Michel Corrette was a French organist and composer with a long and prolific career. The two works here were composed 47 years apart, and the earlier Nouveau Livre de Noëls is not even an especially early work of this little-known composer. Despite the time difference, they don't differ sharply in style. The Messe pour le temps de Noël, composed in 1788, shows few traces of Classical-period opera or even of the late Baroque Italian vocal style, even though Corrette wrote a pedagogical work instructing his readers in the fine points of Italian music. The French style was simply extraordinarily persistent.

Michel Corrette was a French organist and composer with a long and prolific career. The two works here were composed 47 years apart, and the earlier Nouveau Livre de Noëls is not even an especially early work of this little-known composer. Despite the time difference, they don't differ sharply in style. The Messe pour le temps de Noël, composed in 1788, shows few traces of Classical-period opera or even of the late Baroque Italian vocal style, even though Corrette wrote a pedagogical work instructing his readers in the fine points of Italian music.

If you like your Rameau big, strong, and in your face, this disc of the French Baroque composer's Piéces de clavecin en concerts performed by Baroque Nouveau recorded and released by Reference Recordings will be the disc for you. Sixteen movements from five of the composer's concerts are included here: dances such as the Second Concert's Minuet and the Third Concert's "Tambourin," character pieces such as the Fifth Concert's "La Cupis" and the Fourth Concert's "L'Indiscrète," and musical portraits like the Fifth's "La Forqueray" and "La Marais." Whatever its type, every movement here receives an extremely powerful performance from the West Coast-based Baroque Nouveau.

Les professionnels de la santé doivent procéder à l'examen clinique du nouveau-né dès sa naissance. Cet examen vise notamment à identifier l'influence de l'environnement prénatal sur la santé de l'enfant, la qualité de la transition à la vie extra-utérine et les indices précoces et subtils de déviation de la normale qui peuvent être liés à de sérieux problèmes de santé. Il permet ainsi d'évaluer de multiples paramètres cliniques dans un contexte de grande diversité individuelle et culturelle. …

Dans la vingtaine d'essais réunis dans ce livre, Mathieu Bock-Côté propose à la fois un tableau et une critique de ce qu'il considère comme le nouveau régime démocratique qui se met en place en Occident. Il aborde des sujets tels la théorie dite du genre, la prétendue " fin des idéologies ", le suicide assisté conçu comme un droit de l'homme et la célébration du " multiculturalisme "…