Envisager de raconter un roman de Fred Vargas frise le ridicule, aussi se contentera-t-on de dire qu’ici, comme dans Sous les vents de Neptune, Adamsberg est confronté à des résurgences de son passé qui le déstabilisent fortement. L’enquête qu’il mène sur la mort de deux gars qui se sont fait trancher la gorge à la Porte de la Chapelle le remet en présence d’Ariane Lagarde, la médecin légiste à laquelle il s’était opposé quelque vingt-cinq ans auparavant. …
André Cluytens, though born in Belgium, achieved fame as one of the supreme French conductors of his era, renowned for his refinement and the sheer joy of his music-making. In the mid-20th century he built a substantial, varied and distinguished discography and became the first conductor to record the complete Beethoven symphonies with the Berliner Philharmoniker. This 64-disc set, uniting all his recordings of orchestral, concerto and choral repertoire, embraces the mainstream and the esoteric, and includes numerous items making their debut on CD or retrieved from the archives and released for the very first time.