Entre diplomatie et espionnage, une intrigue qui se déroule sur les territoires de l'ancienne URSS. …
Cette étude montre comment Napoléon, en ayant une équipe fidèle, compétente et dévouée entièrement à son service exclusif, a disposé à l'intérieur de l'Etat d'un outil dont lui seul pouvait et savait se servir. Il a ainsi pu résister aux oppositions et aux revers qui ont accablé les dernières années du règne. …
Michel de Villers made the beautiful evenings of La Rose Rouge before attending the Trois Mailletz with his accomplices Guy Lafitte and André Persiani. Attached to the swing, the saxophonist worked to demonstrate that good music and entertainment were perfectly reconcilable. A point of view shared by Boris Vian, artistic director of Philips discs. His clientele demanding dance records, Boris supervised the recordings. Entrusted to Villers, arranged by Persiani, these big band faces from 1958 and 1959 - we ignore the staff - instrumental adaptations of fashionable themes, still retain all their charm. In 1961, Jean-Christophe Averty produced a Claude Bolling Special Show for television. The show featured the pianist's nonette, a medium formation that sounded like great. In the absence of images, the music testifies to it.
Henri Sauguet stampeded in the musical milieu when he was barely twenty, as co-founder with his mentor Erik Satie of the ephemeral École d’Arcueil. His orchestral music, inspired by the Six, is very French in tone: light, elegant, not demonstrative but straightforward. Sauguet earnt his biggest successes in ballet, his most revered score being the rarely recorded Les forains (The Carneys), choreographed by Roland Petit, empathic depiction of a modest troop of street artists. Featuring conductor Michel Plasson & coupled with the Tableaux de Paris, a set of lovely pictures of the most emblematic places of the capital.
De Pékin à Paris, de Hong Kong à Los Angeles, le témoignage déchirant d'une femme broyée par la Révolution culturelle chinoise et sauvée par la musique. …