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Claude Zidi - La moutarde me monte au nez (1974)
DivX 5 640x288 25.00fps 968Kbps | French WMA stereo 64Kbps | Spanish subs .srt | 01:32:40 | 690 MB
Comedy | aka "Lucky Pierre" | Starring: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Vittorio Caprioli

Pierre Durois is a bumbling school teacher with an eye for the older female students; his father is a reputable surgeon who is running for Mayor. There's a film shooting crew in town and the paparazzi are around too. Zaney antics follow with typical French coincidences to heighten the comic elements.
Professeur de mathématiques dans un lycée de jeunes filles, Pierre Durois est contraint de bâcler ses cours pour honorer les engagements qu'il prend par ailleurs. Sollicité par son père, célèbre chirurgien et maire de la ville, forcé par un austère proviseur et imploré par un ami journaliste, Pierre, dans sa classe, doit écrire les discours électoraux de la future campagne, corriger les copies d'un collègue malade et, enfin, rédiger un article à sensation à partir de clichés scandaleux, sur la présence en ville de la star Jackie Logan…

La rencontre imprévue (The Unexpected Encounter), also known as Les pèlerins de la Mecque (The Pilgrims to Mecca) is a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a form of opéra comique, by Christoph Willibald Gluck, first performed at the Burgtheater, Vienna on January 7, 1764...

A worthy premiere of one of Russia's most neglected composers Vladimir Rebikov, often called 'the inventor of the whole-tone scale', is now almost completely forgotten, save his Silhouettes (a set of interesting children's pieces), and his Valse op.21, a popular encore piece. Due to most of his pieces being miniatures, with definite musical phrases and simple forms (far from Satie), not many people paid attention to him. To the disengaged, Rebikov seems like one of the many salon composers, with nothing of note. This album does very well to dispel this notion.

Although best known as a composer of instrumental pieces and symphonic works, Elizabeth Maconchy nevertheless wrote a good deal of vocal and choral music. That said, she turned to opera fairly late in her composing career. The operas were one-acters of fairly short duration. The Sofa plays for thirty-nine minutes and The Departure thirty-one minutes. Some time later she completed another, hardly longer opera The Three Strangers based on a short story by Thomas Hardy. It was completed in 1967……This beautifully engineered and elegantly produced released will be in my Records of the Year list.

Hubert Culot @ musicweb-international.com

Maiden England '88 is the 2CD soundtrack to Iron Maiden's legendary live show which took place across two sold-out nights at Birmingham N.E.C Arena, UK in November 1988 during the band’s “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son World Tour”.

A masterpiece of expressiveness and virtuosic performance. This album from brand new label Prima Classic combines Marina Rebeka's thrilling singing, dramatic Bel Canto music based on original manuscripts, and Jader Bignamini's nuanced conducting of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo Orchestra and Chorus.