Moha la Squale Bendero

Quatrième de couverture : Le 31 juillet 1914, Jean Jaurès qui, depuis une quinzaine d’années, est la voix et la figure du socialisme français, est assassiné. Voilà longtemps qu’il dénonce le « capitalisme qui porte en lui la guerre comme la nuée porte l’orage ».
Jaurès est le seul, avec un réalisme visionnaire, à décrire les conséquences de cette politique que dictent les nationalismes, les intérêts et les rivalités impériales. …

Three Venetian contemporaries named Antonio - one, Vivaldi, achieved world fame with his concerti. But who has heard of Antonio Lotti and Caldara today? In their time, they were famous composers beyond the borders of Venice, and yet some of their music has lain dormant in archives for over three hundred years. Now selected alto cantatas by Lotti as well as oratorio introductions and an "Ave Regina" by Caldara may reawaken attention: paired with the "Nisi Dominus", RV 608, and two rousing concerti by Vivaldi, the baroque orchestra la festa musicale and the internationally acclaimed countertenor Alex Potter present an album full of virtuoso and touching musical treasures by the three Antonios from the Canal Grande.

En 1915, Adrienne Monnier inaugure au 7, rue de l'Odéon une librairie-bibliothèque de prêt d'un genre nouveau, La Maison des Amis des Livres, appelée à devenir le rendez-vous favori du Tout-Paris littéraire, d'Aragon à Walter Benjamin, d'André Gide à Nathalie Sarraute. En 1921, Sylvia Beach installe en face, au n° 12, une boutique fondée deux ans plus tôt sur le même modèle, Shakespeare and Company, dont les habitués ont pour noms Gertrude Stein, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes…

Thanks to Julien Chauvin and his ensemble La Loge, the programs of the Concert Spirituel’s evenings in the late 18th century Paris come back to life. The so called Haydn’s “symphonies parisiennes” are the core of their musical project which also features contemporary composers, some of them are still unknown.

The young violinist Diamanda La Berge Dramm ventures to bridge music of the baroque with modern. In her GENUIN debut album, the Dutch artist interweaves the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and John Cage. In her collaboration with singers Michelle O'Rourke and Katinka Fogh Vindelev, the boundaries between singing and instrumental playing dissolve, and the production of sound itself becomes a highly exciting parameter. From the layers of depth in Bach's great Chaconne to the cobweb-thin tapestry of John Cage's genre-bending compositions, the violinist takes us on an exciting sonic journey that reveals her to be an artist who is as mature as she is inquisitive.

Four years after her boundary\-breaking album Bach Unlimited, pianist Lise de la Salle presents an extremely personal odyssey inspired by her love of the dance and her fascination with the period 1850 to 1950. More than just a question, Lise de la Salle’s ‘when do we dance?’ is an invitation to a voyage, ‘one that explores the different ways in which dance takes possession of the body’. A voyage in time, through a whole century (1850\-1950) with the accent on modernity; a voyage over the oceans, from North America to Eastern Europe, crisscrossing Argentina, Spain, France, Hungary and Russia; a voyage to the very core of rhythm, that essential anchor point for the dance as for music in general, that enlivens the ragtimes of Gershwin and Bolcom, Bartók’s folk dances, a waltz by Saint\-Saëns and a tango by Stravinsky.

Gisèle Halimi : Soixante-dix ans de combats, d’engagement au service de la justice et de la cause des femmes. Et la volonté, aujourd’hui, de transmettre ce qui a construit cet activisme indéfectible, afin de dire aux nouvelles générations que l’injustice demeure, qu’elle est plus que jamais intolérable. Gisèle Halimi revient avec son amie, Annick Cojean, qui partage ses convictions féministes, sur certains épisodes marquants de son parcours rebelle pour retracer ce qui a fait un destin. …