X Femmes Pour Elle

Deux femmes et deux hommes : la parité est respectée pour ces quatre sonates à titre de Beethoven.

Dans ces chroniques, initialement publiées dans The New York Times et sur le site The Rumpus, la féministe afro-américaine évoque son enfance, réfléchit aux notions de race et de genre. Elle dit aussi sa lassitude des prises de position parfois trop clivantes de certaines organisations féministes. …

Much of the richly diverse oeuvre of Albert Roussel (1869-1937) grew from his far-flung travels as a young navy officer. One of the major French composers of his time, he produced music that embraces the exotic colours of so-called Impressionism, the rigour of his training at Vincent d’Indy’s Schola Cantorum, and the questing spirit of Modernism. Containing a number of CD premieres, this wide-ranging edition features such performers as Jean Martinon, Charles Munch and Claire Croiza – all colleagues of the composer, who makes appearances as both conductor and pianist – André Cluytens, Michel Plasson and José van Dam.

Claude Debussy, who died 100 years ago in March 1918, is one of history's greatest composers and the most influential of all French composers. A father of modern music, Debussy lived in the early days of the recording era.