Godfather Notebook

Le sentiment amoureux est sans doute à l’origine des plus beaux chefs-d’oeuvre de la musique. De la douceur de l’éveil sentimental à la passion qui nous emporte, en passant par la langueur mélancolique, la musique classique a toujours su dire l’amour.De Bach à Ravel, de la grâce mozartienne à l’exaltation de Liszt, sans oublier les airs d’opéra emblématiques de Donizetti ou Puccini, Radio Classique en partenariat avec Warner Classics a réuni dans ce double album les plus belles émotions de nos rêves d’amour.Avec Philippe Jaroussky, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Alexandre Tharaud, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Thibaut Garcia, Sabine Devielhe, Natalie Dessay, Elsa Dreisig…Rêves d’amour : Les plus belles émotions amoureuses en musique. "Les plus belles émotions amoureuses en musique".

Pianist See Siang Wong has had a versatile career, ranging from performances and recordings of core Classical-Romantic repertoire to contemporary music to cinematic selections. He has become internationally successful as a soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist. Of Singaporean- and Malaysian-Chinese background, Wong was born in Arnhem, Netherlands, on May 7, 1979. He studied in both the Netherlands and Switzerland, taking up residence and working as a teacher (at the University of Zurich) in the latter country; his Swiss Piano Project is both a series of recordings on the MGB Grammont label and a project to commission new works. He is the dedicatee of more than 30 piano works.

For thirty years starting in the mid-1970s, the byline of Jim Dooley appeared on riveting investigative stories of organized crime and political corruption that headlined the front page of Honolulu's morning daily. In Sunny Skies, Shady Characters, James Dooley revisits highlights of his career as a hard-hitting investigative reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser and, in later years, for KITV television and the online Hawaii Reporter. His lively backstories on how he chased these high-profile scandals make fascinating reading, while providing an insider's look at the business of journalism and the craft of investigative reporting.