Raphael Chirbes

Un vieil homme athée rencontre un jeune homme sur les dunes de Cape Cod. Une étrange relation se tisse entre le non-croyant, Raphaël, et Tobie, un croyant nouveau genre dont les paroles, puis les gestes, deviennent de plus en plus mystérieux. Qui est Tobie? se demande Raphaël. Un illuminé? Un jeune en mal de sensations? Et qui est Raphaël? Un grand-père sceptique, comme le décrit Tobie? Un mécréant? Un chrétien qui s’ignore? …

The Way I See It is the third studio album by American musician Raphael Saadiq, released September 16, 2008 on Columbia Records in the United States. It was also released April 2009 in the United Kingdom. The album debuted at number 19 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 23,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, The Way I See It received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 79/100 from Metacritic. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, losing to Jennifer Hudson's self-titled debut album at the 51st Grammy Awards…

Dvorák’s chamber music is one of the most popular parts of his repertoire and contains some classics of the genre. Thoroughly Romantic, endlessly imaginative and imbued with Slavonic fire, the String Quintet and String Sextet are elegantly performed by the virtuoso musicians of The Raphael Ensemble.

Tchaikovsky’s virtuoso string sextet ‘Souvenir de Florence’ is one of the most popular works in the string chamber music repertoire. It has been recorded here with Arensky’s Quartet Op 35 which was dedicated to the memory of Tchaikovsky.