Michele Nuzzi

Any Italian progressive rock passionate listener knows Locanda delle Fate very well, especially for their 1977 masterpiece "Forse le lucciole non si amano più". Among the main songwriters of the band and of their unmatched first LP there was a then very young Michele Conta, a piano student at the conservatory of Alessandria.

Femme de conviction et observatrice aguerrie de notre vie politique, Michèle Cotta brosse le tableau édifiant d'un chaos sans précédent dans l'histoire de la Ve République. Au fil de ses rencontres et de ses échanges avec les principaux acteurs de cette séquence hors normes – de François Hollande, Manuel Valls ou Emmanuel Macron à Nicolas Sarkozy, Alain Juppé, François Bayrou et Marine Le Pen –, elle nous plonge dans les coulisses d'une incroyable dérive ou la déliquescence des idées se conjugue à l'impuissance des gouvernants, à gauche, et à l'anarchie des ambitions, à droite. …

Jazz Violin, Guitar & Bass… Ramo, Pizzarelli & Bruno. A swinging program that recalls the spirit of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, this contemporary trio of veteran jazzmen delivers straight from the heart…

At the beginning of the 18th century Italian instrumental music reached France and began to make its decisive impact. Michele Mascitti was a protagonist of this remarkable change. The young violinist moved from Naples to Paris where he spent most of his long life and managed to publish nine collections of instrumental music between 1704 and 1738. The extraordinary success and popularity of Mascitti’s works allowed him to live for many years as a free-lance musician and to be applauded and admired in the artistic circles of the French capital. His music brings us back to the fashionable and refined atmospheres of the Parisian aristocratic salons and to the galanterie so beautifully illustrated in the paintings of the time.