Camille Pascal

Camille Pascal revisite les grands événements de l'histoire de France qui ont fait de notre pays la fille aînée de l'Eglise, depuis son baptême au ve siècle jusqu'au divorce inscrit dans la loi de 1905. …

Camille Pascal nous plonge au cœur d'un été inédit dans l'histoire de France : celui où quatre rois se sont succédé sur le trône. …

Conseiller puis plume de Nicolas Sarkozy, Camille Pascal fut le témoin privilégié des deux dernières années de son mandat. Il saisit sur le vif des scènes de la vie quotidienne à l'Élysée rarement révélées au grand public. Les réunions en comité restreint, la gestion de l'affaire Merah, jusqu'aux adieux au Jardin d'hiver après la défaite, il dévoile les dessous des lieux les plus secrets de la République. …

Conseiller puis plume de Nicolas Sarkozy, Camille Pascal fut le témoin privilégié des deux dernières années de son mandat. Il saisit sur le vif des scènes de la vie quotidienne à l'Élysée rarement révélées au grand public. Les réunions en comité restreint, la gestion de l'affaire Merah, jusqu'aux adieux au Jardin d'hiver après la défaite, il dévoile les dessous des lieux les plus secrets de la République. …

Printemps 1718. Alors qu'un incendie ravage le Petit-Pont, menaçant Notre-Dame de Paris, la duchesse du Maine prépare un coup d'Etat pour renverser le régent Philippe d'Orléans et prendre le pouvoir.
Prix Du Guesclin 2022 (catégorie fiction)…

This disc makes for a satisfying programme. I agree with its title, too, for although reference books often call Honegger Swiss he was born in Le Havre, became a pupil of d'Indy in Paris, was one of Les Six and died in the French capital. His Cello Concerto is a small work both in style and content, pastorally Gallic in feeling and with a bouncy second section and finale to its single-movement form. This is unfamiliar repertory, well written for the cello, that earns its place in the catalogue.

Unusually the liner note deserves a mention ahead of the music: the fine pianist Jeremy Denk, half of this regular duo, manages to encapsulate the elusiveness of French romantic music with such insight in a few sharp sentences, his words almost shape the way we listen to this superbly played disc. Saint-Saëns' wistful and emotional Sonata No 1 and Ravel's bluesy, ironic sonata have a whipped, airy quality. Joshua Bell plays with fire and finesse, with Denk a powerful ally. Franck's dark-light violin sonata, mysterious, ardent and far more than the sum of its parts when played as majestically as here, forms the centrepiece of this seriously beguiling disc.

Saint-Saëns - Piano Concertos 1-5 - Pascal Rogé, Charles Dutoit (1981) {2CD Set Decca 443 865-2 rel 1995}
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Classical / Romantic

Among the virtuosity warhorses in the piano repertory, the five concertos by Camille Saint-Saens have established an appealing reputation. The audiences worldwide are enchanted to attend performances by great virtuosos in utterly melodious and harmonic works with dazzling keyboard pyrotechnics and musical ideas of the most refined quality. Yet, a very few of the professional pianists dare to approach this pianistic output by one of the most prolific and multifaceted artists of the European culture (composer, playwright, philosopher, astronomer, archaeologist, poet etc). To find the proper touch, to balance the wild virtuosity with the subtle musical concept, to get the deepest level of significance in these works – are all difficult tasks that require a high level of artistry (not only in pianistic terms).

Over a remarkably long and illustrious career, Camille Saint-Saëns thrilled audiences around the world as a pianist and organist, shaped the course of musical life in France, and enriched a multitude of genres with some 600 works, all bearing witness to the mastery of his craft. Setting his best-known compositions in their dazzlingly diverse context, this edition invites exploration and discovery. It spans more than a century of recording history, encompassing a host of great instrumentalists, singers, conductors and orchestras, many of them from France. Setting the pace, in performances from as early as 1904, is the composer himself.