Recueil Des Cours, 1985 IV

Simple roturière, Diana devient la lady la plus aimée d’Angleterre. Mais la réalité était tout autre. Trahison, solitude et blessures, la vie princière n’était pas aussi rose qu’elle voulait le faire paraître. …

Derrière chaque grand personnage historique se cache au moins une histoire d’amour…

Riccardo Chailly had been anointed by Decca as their resident modernist before he rose to be director of the Royal Concertgebouw, and in some ways these early recordings are still his freshest. This Stravinsky compilation, part of a wide-ranging cycle of the composer's works, all in wonderful sound and played far better than on any version led by the composer, dates from 1984.

For the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the performances on November 26 and 27, 2021 in the Isarphilharmonie marked the beginning of a new chapter in its Mahler interpretation: with its designated new principal conductor Simon Rattle, the orchestra is now headed by a Mahler admirer every bit as ardent as his predecessors Jansons, Maazel and Kubelík. The musicians dedicated the benefit concert on November 26 to the memory of conductor Bernard Haitink, who died in October 2021 and was associated with the renowned orchestra for 61 years. The very long silence after the final chord was one of those “goosebump moments” that one goes to concerts for – and for which music is made in the first place.

Les aveux de la chair, qui paraît aujourd'hui comme le quatrième et dernier volume de L'histoire de la sexualité, est en réalité le premier auquel Michel Foucault s'était consacré après La volonté de savoir (1976) qui constituait l'introduction générale de l'entreprise. Il s'attachait aux règles et doctrines du christianisme élaborées du IIe au IVe siècles par les Pères de l'Église. …