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Ce livre retrace la vie et les crimes de l'un des plus terrifiants tueurs en série du monde. né le 16 octobre 1936 à Lablotchnoïe (un village de l'oblast de Soumy, alors en RSS d'Ukraine) , Andreï Chikatilo a grandi dans une période marquée par la famine, la guerre et la répression du régime soviétique. Ces circonstances difficiles ont façonné une personnalité complexe et troublée, dont les pulsions meurtrières allaient semer la terreur pendant plus d'une décennie. …

For the fourth and penultimate volume of his Fauré series, Eric Le Sage has been joined by Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuel Pahud, and François Salque, long-standing accomplices, in order to record these pieces for four hands. Recipient of numerous prizes both in France and abroad, this complete Fauré series is already asserting itself as a reference for the interpretation of Gabriel Fauré’s chamber music with piano.

Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian Jew who studied in Germany and, on the run from the Nazis, ended up in France, fighting with the Resistance and composing scores for classic French films like La Grande Illusion and Les Enfants du Paradis. Even more famous than his film scores, however, were his cabaret songs, which intelligently synthesize the French chanson with German cabaret, gypsy violin music, the feverish passion of klezmer, and a pizzazz that is all Hungarian. A list of his lyricists and collaborators is a roll call of mid-century France –Prévert, Sartre, Raymond Queneau, and Juliet Greco.

A la fin du règne de Louis XIV, le mystérieux Gaspard Le Roux compose pour le clavecin des suites d'une incroyable richesse qui peuvent être jouées à deux clavecins. C'est ce répertoire unique qui est aujourd'hui prétexte à une conversation musicale entre William Christie et Arthur Haas.

Le Nuove Musiche, led by acclaimed director Krijn Koetsveld, continue with their exceptional series of Claudio Monteverdi’s complete madrigals. Here, they look back to the very beginning of Monteverdi's works, when the young composer was still under the influence of his teacher Marc'Antonio Ingegneri. At this time, the madrigal was already a popular art form, one that Monteverdi was beginning to add his name to, before – as we know – he would go on to radically extend it with the introduction of the seconda prattica. These two books show that Monteverdi was an assured and dexterous composer in the established genre. He could follow the conventions of madrigal-writing – concentrating on the recitation of the text, adding in affects by altering the melody, rhythm and harmony – with skill and originality.

These sonatas date from the final part of Mozart’s life, when he was in his early thirties and at the height of his genius. Having recently entered into Freemasonry, Mozart, who had shaken off the paternal yoke and authority of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, was living in Vienna, and it was in Vienna that he composed these two Sonatas. Mozart’s music, whether expressive or energetic, light, fierce, elegant or austere, reveals the expectations, the hopes and the dramas that characterised his life.

More than the compilation series, more than the lovingly organised events, more than the radio shows: "Le Café Abstrait" is a philosophy of lifestyle: relaxed and culturally open-minded.
It was "Le Café Abstrait" and its mastermind, Raphaël Marionneau, who pioneered chill-out culture at Hamburg's internationally renown Mojo club in 1996: "Le Café Abstrait" reinvented nightclubbing in a new relaxing way. Once a month, stylish sofa installations and light projections transformed Mojo's dancefloor into a gigantic living room. There, up to 400 laid-back nightlife connoisseurs indulged in relaxation and Raphaël Marionneau's very special downtempo music selections. A new lifestyle was born: the couch culture…

The present album, number nine in Eric le Sage’s valiant Schumann edition, is devoted to the trios with piano, a favourite formation of the 19th Century that combines the economy of chamber music with the prestige of instrumental music. He is accompanied by regular partners Gordan Nikolitch and Christophe Coin with a guest appearance from Paul Meyer on clarinet for Op. 56.

Qui fut Saint Louis ? Peut-on le connaître et, Joinville aidant, entrer dans son intimité ? Peut-on le saisir à travers toutes les couches et les formations de mémoires attachées à construire sa statue et son modèle ? Problème d’autant plus difficile que, la légende rejoignant pour une fois la réalité, l’enfant roi de douze ans semble avoir été dès le départ programmé, si l’on ose dire, pour être ce roi idéal et unique que l’histoire en a fait. …