le Coran Des Historiens Vol II

Trente historiens, spécialistes internationaux de l'islam, offrent une synthèse complète et critique des travaux passés et des recherches présentes sur le Coran. Le contexte géographique, religieux et culturel qui l'a vu naître est restitué et les sourates commentées dans chacune de leurs sources. …

Trente historiens, spécialistes internationaux de l'islam, offrent une synthèse complète et critique des travaux passés et des recherches présentes sur le Coran. Le contexte géographique, religieux et culturel qui l'a vu naître est restitué et les sourates commentées dans chacune de leurs sources. …

Le regard des historiens latins sur Rome et son empire, parfois sévère, plus souvent admiratif, nous donne la mesure des transformations qui ont permis à une modeste bourgade du Latium de devenir la maîtresse du monde. De Jules César au prêtre Orose, en passant par Salluste, Tite-Live, Tacite, Suétone ou encore Florus, Justin et Ammien Marcellin, tous ont été témoins et parfois acteurs des faits qu'ils rapportent, ou bien héritiers d'une riche tradition dont il ne nous reste que des fragments épars. …

Jordi Savall's exemplary performance of Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks is among the finest available on disc: refined and precise, but very big, with blood-stirring grandeur. This is just the kind of extroverted, rousing presentation that best highlights the music's open-air ceremonial function. Savall's Le Concert des Nations is essentially a chamber orchestra with double or triple winds, but the sound he elicits from the group is majestic and surprisingly powerful. The playing is crisp and the rhythmic articulation bracing, but the sound is never brash. In fact, more often than not it is seductively sensual, a heady integration of precision and supple, shapely phrasing. Handel left no authoritative edition of the score of Water Music and it has traditionally been divided into three suites, but Savall reorders the material into two suites, a decision that makes more sense in terms of key relationships and that sounds entirely satisfying.

After the critical success of the first volume of Beethoven’s symphonies, Jordi Savall now offers us from the Sixth to the Ninth.This latest publication crowns a nearly two-year world tour and confirms the extent to which the director renews our vision of these most famous works. The Concert des Nations shows that it also knows how to magnify the repertoire of the early 19th century, which will be confirmed by a forthcoming Schubert album.

Marais's Alcione is the last great 'tragedy' in music from the reign of Louis XIV. It is a total spectacle at the crossroads of the 17th and 18th centuries, from which it takes the mythological source, it's praise of the sovereign's glory and the literary requirement to combine choreography and stage movements. Jordi Savall rediscovered this work and brought it back to life for the first stage production in Paris since 1771.