Paris, My Sweet

Melancholic poetry provided endless nourishment for musical creativity in the late Renaissance. In his first recording for harmonia mundi, Geoffroy Jourdain leads Les Cris de Paris in music from the cusp of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From Bryd to Gesualdo, Italian and English madrigals rub shoulders with motets and Tenebrae responsories, finding pleasure even in meditating on what causes one's pain.

A most unusual cabinet of curiosities: “Finding pleasure even in meditating on what causes one’s pain”: that neatly defines the theme of this album of music from the cusp of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. Here Italian and English madrigals rub shoulders with motets and Tenebrae responsories.

Today, nearly after fifty years after his death, Django Reinhardt's guitar artistry continues to amaze both fans and fellow musician's. This box give 103 reasons for this continuous adulation. Spanning 1934-1952, we include legendary sessions with the Quintets du Hot Club de France along with tracks from dates with Coleman Hawkins' All Star Jam Band, Bill Coleman and his orchestra, his involvement with the Glenn Miller All Stars and of course many with Stephane Grappelli with and without the Quintets. This 4 CD set shows what a giant he was and why he is such a huge influence on all guitarists playing whatever style.