Tombés Pour Daho

Trois ans après Corps et Armes, Étienne Daho fait sa Réévolution. Après avoir réécouté Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen ou les Stones, le jeune médaillé des Arts et des Lettres décide de retrouver la sobriété de Mythomane, son premier essai discographique daté de 1981. Abandonnant les artifices électroniques, les collaborations tout azimut et les fidèles Valentins (partis zoner avec Tété), Daho la joue intime et acoustique.

Like his older brother Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach received his musical training from the most exacting of teachers, and there is no doubt that, with the experience of the Trio sonatas for organ and Das wohltemperierte Clavier, both became admirable keyboard players.

This set includes two of the rarest and hardest to find of all recordings: the 1958-59 version of the Bach Cello Suites by Janos Starker – the one everyone says his later recordings cannot match – and the extremely beautiful performance of Bach's unaccompanied violin sonatas and partitas – the one that Japanese collectors pay 3-digit dollar prices for – in outstanding EMI Digital Re-Masterings.

Today almost ignored by musicologists and performers, and totally unknown to music-lovers, Johann Paul von Westhoff [1656-1705] was nonetheless an outstanding figure in late seventeenth-century musical life. He is one of those composers with an endearing personality who achieved a synthesis of the multiple trends in European music. He was held in high esteem by his contemporaries, including the Sun King himself, before whom he appeared in 1682.