Carol Dix

Un roman fascinant sur l'amour impossible entre un amnésique et la chercheuse qui le soigne.
Institut de neurologie de Darven Park, Philadelphie, 1965. Une jeune chercheuse, Margot Sharpe, rencontre Elihu Hoopes, nouveau patient, qui sera connu plus tard comme E. H., le plus fameux amnésique de l'histoire. Car cet homme élégant de trente-sept ans a été victime d'une infection qui ne lui laisse qu'une mémoire immédiate de soixante-dix secondes : tout le reste est régulièrement oublié, hormis des bribes d'un passé lointain. À chaque fois qu'il rencontre Margot, il pense la voir pour la première fois. …

King’s College Choir are the most famous choir in the world. This 29-CD set of the complete Argo recordings celebrates David Willcocks’ tenure from 1957-1973 and includes some of the most beautiful choral music sung with the choir’s trademark richness and purity of sound. Six albums are released on CD for the first time – David Willcocks’ 1964 Festival of Lessons & Carols and Tye Masses and four albums from Boris Ord, Willcocks’ predecessor. Also includes works by Bach, Tallis, Haydn and others.

Decca's 2015 limited-edition box set of the complete Argo recordings of the King's College Choir of Cambridge, directed by David Willcocks, consists of 29 CDs spanning the period from 1957 to 1973. The albums, presented with their original jacket art, offer some of the choir's finest performances, which include three recordings of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (1954, 1958, 1964), anthems by Gibbons, Blow, and Handel, masses by Byrd, Taverner, Haydn, Tye, and Blow, and other great choral works by Bach, Allegri, Palestrina, Tallis, Vivaldi, Howells, and Vaughan Williams. The choir is world famous for its purity of tone and beautiful blend, and under Willcocks' masterly direction it became the exemplar of British choral singing, unmatched by any other ensemble of men and boys.