Tuez Skripal

The Stockholm Chamber Brass here presents a well-played program of Renaissance music arranged for modern brass, with the pluses and caveats that implies. The music’s fantastic and very well-selected: Susato, Dowland, Monteverdi, Gesualdo. The program itself smartly combines these, moving from lively dances and martial airs to arias and slow works of great beauty. Many tracks add percussion to the mix. The Monteverdi ‘moresca’ (track 25) is irresistible. The brass ensemble plays marvelously throughout, especially in slower, more introspective selections.

The least one can say, is that he leaves no one indifferent. If "La France profonde" identifies totally with the views in his songs, the intelligentsia has found him an ideal scapegoat. Courageous for some, demagogic for others, nothing can detract from his talent as a singer. His sales and sell-out shows speak for themselves. Judge for yourself.

From Monteverdi to Brahms via French Baroque rarities: the Decca Gold (US) legacy of a complete musician, newly remastered and issued complete for the first time, with fascinating liner notes by Nigel Simeone. Original Jackets, Limited Edition.

Se définissant comme féministe "amazone" et "dissidente", l'auteure montre ici combien la personne occidentale est chargée de "personas sexuelles". Elle plaide pour une vision élargie de la réalité, fait l'éloge de la pulsion artistique et de la dissidence. Selon elle, sexe, violence, nature et art hantent le drame millénaire de la vie humaine au centre duquel se joue le conflit entre les sexes. …