Angela Somer

Dépressive et terrifiée : à seulement 13 ans, Vicky n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même lorsqu'elle est placée dans la famille d'Angela Hart. Cette maman d'adoption habituée à accueillir des enfants en grande détresse est désemparée. Avant de pouvoir aider la petite fille, elle doit comprendre son histoire. Et, peu à peu, Vicky livre les secrets de sa souffrance. D'aussi loin qu'elle s'en souvienne elle n'a que des images violentes qui lui reviennent. …

After three decades of Carmen in opéra comique-style, each one offering its own brand of authenticity, here we are back in the 19th century with the old grand opera version, with the Guiraud recitatives, tacked on after Bizet’s death. This was the way Carmen was usually performed until the 1950s, when producers and scholars started to reconsider the original.

Francois Couperin - Angela Hewitt - Keyboard Music Vol. 2
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 239 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hyperion Records # SACDA67480 | Country/Year: UK 2004
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

'Hewitt's playing is equally representative of her general approach to his music. Her touch is amazingly light, incredibly crisp and alert to the possibilities afforded by the piano' (Gramophone)

I read a rave review of Vadim Gluzman in concert, and since I hd never heard of the Ukraine-born, naturalized Israeli violinist, I sought out this CD. The 45-year-old virtuoso is from the Oistrakh-Vengerov mold: intense, large-scaled, and powerful. All his talents are needed in the late, bleak Shostakovich Violin Sonata. The cover art, showing Gluzman dressed in black gazing out over a flat gray landscape typifies the music.