Merd Ranch

Colorado, 1873. Après la mort de son mari, Margaret Parker décide de continuer à s’occuper de son ranch. À ses côtés, celles qu’elle considère comme sa famille : deux soeurs, Joan et Stella, une cuisinière, Julie, et Hattie, une ancienne esclave au passé aventureux. Mais des femmes seules sur un ranch ont vite fait d’exciter toutes les convoitises, et bientôt elles sont dépossédées de leurs biens. Elles n’ont plus, chacune, qu’un cheval, et le choix qui reste dans l’Ouest américain à celles qui ont tout perdu : se marier ou se prostituer. …

Vanessa Vale est une écrivaine. Elle est l'auteure de plus de 40 best-sellers romantiques et sexy, dont notamment sa populaire série de romans historiques "Bridgewater" et ses romances contemporaines érotiques mettant en vedette de mauvais garçons qui n'ont pas peur de dévoiler leurs sentiments.
Elle a écrit également sous le pseudonyme de Vanessa Dare. …

Listening to a work of Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness, you recognize his characteristic style in a few measures. His music is often broadly expansive, painting sonorous landscapes that often use brass instruments to blend with and accentuate the strings. Also, while his peers experimented with serialism or highly intellectually challenging styles, Hovhaness maintained his world music-infused neo-Romantic style throughout his life. The result is an enormous body of work that are all a joy to listen to.

Gustav Mahler described his Third Symphony as ‘a work in which the whole world is indeed reflected’, a claim supported by its large, six-movement structure and the use of huge orchestral and choral forces, plus a part for alto solo. The first performance of the symphony took place on 9 June 1902 in Krefeld under Mahler’s direction. This is the third recording of a Mahler symphony by the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Tomas Netopil. They are joined here by Bettina Ranch (alto), the Aalto Children’s Choir, the ladies of the Essen Philharmonic Choir and the children’s choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

It was inevitable that the abundant discography of Les Lunaisiens would one day turn its attention to the Complainte des rues, a ‘lament’ that tells the dark and tragic story of the wretched nobodies of society who can only protest their misery and hunger!

It was inevitable that the abundant discography of Les Lunaisiens would one day turn its attention to the Complainte des rues, a ‘lament’ that tells the dark and tragic story of the wretched nobodies of society who can only protest their misery and hunger!