Marie Vogel

Robert Schumann and Gabriel Fauré - both composers are great masters of the small form, the art of saying a lot with few notes. And both find their deepest and most touching statements in the intimate form of chamber music, which Schumann called "the higher potency of poetry" in his diary. All arrangements were worked out jointly by Martin Löhr and Marie-Pierre Langlamet.

A contemporary of Mozart, Johann Christoph Vogel also died at an early age. Forward looking in approach, this composer of a tormented disposition, sought to extend the operatic revolution undertaken by Gluck in the 1770s. First performed in 1786 at the Opéra de Paris, 'La Toison d’or' reveals that search for an expressive art which demanded an all-embracing involvement from the performers and supplied the music with a sometimes unbearable intensity for audiences of the time.

Des Brunhoff, l’histoire a surtout retenu deux noms : celui de Jean, le génial créateur de Babar dans les années 1930, et celui de son fils, Laurent, qui fera du roi des éléphants un des personnages les plus célèbres de la littérature enfantine.
Si Jean se tenait hors du tumulte du monde, il en allait tout autrement pour les autres membres d’une famille qui a marqué son temps. Son frère Michel et son beau-frère Lucien Vogel furent à la pointe dans la presse, l’édition, la mode, la photographie ou encore l’art moderne. …