Monneuse, Denis

In the margin of official religious institutions, Catholic confraternities and Muslim orders offered a mystical experience. Music played an important role in their rituals, as a way of access to God. Simple, repetitive, haunting, this music sung in groups during processions or devotional meetings was intended to place the assembly in a state of ecstatic trance.

The Annecy Classic Festival has become a major player in the national and international cultural landscape. In residence at the 2013 Annecy Classic Festival, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic closes the festival and joins forces with its iconic conductor Yuri Temirkanov. Together with multi-gifted musician Denis Matsuev, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra invites us on a journey, whose secret lies in Rachmaninov’s famous Piano Concerto No.2 and the Symphonic Dances. Denis Matsuev, the «Siberian Bear» as they call him, interprets the Piano Concerto No.2 virtuously and passionately. Yuri Temirkanov takes us on a journey through One Thousand and One Nights with a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s lush Sheherazade, with its intoxicating scents and the glowing, oriental colours.

Médecin et militant de renommée mondiale, prix Nobel de la paix en 2018 pour sa lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes, Denis Mukwege a fondé un hôpital au sein duquel les victimes de mutilations et de viols sont prises en charge, dans un Congo ravagé par les conflits. Célébrant la résilience des femmes, il appelle à agir contre les violences sexuelles par une refondation de la masculinité. …

On his new solo album, Russian star pianist Denis Kozhukhin presents a personal and colourful collection of character pieces taken from Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte and Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces. Combing these miniature gems by two outstanding poets of music, Kozhukhin provides a shining example of how disarmingly touching and penetrating a simple song or a vision of nature captured in sound can be. The program features classics such as Mendelssohn's Venetian Gondola Song and Grieg's Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, as well as less famous but equally enchanting pieces. Kozhukhin lifts out the noble simplicity of these works with his delicate playing.

Denis Dufour - Bocalises (2006) {Motus M306011} (INA–GRM)
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Experimental / Musique Concrète / Electroacoustic / Acousmatic

Denis Dufour. Born in Lyon in 1953, he took courses at the CNSM in Paris at Ivo Malec, Guy Reibel, and Pierre Schaeffer. He is the creator of numerous instrumental and electroacoustic works. He was a member of Ina-GRM until the year 2000. Creator, teacher, organizer of concerts and events, he founded and directed several instrumental ensembles: TM +, Les Temps Modernes, and in 2004 the ensemble Syntax in Perpignan. He is the main instigator of the Futura festival, and artistic director of Motus. He has been teaching acousmatic and instrumental composition for over 25 years.

En 2008, Denis Pommier, vigneron près de Chablis, se convertit à l'agriculture biologique. Gel, grêle, mildiou, canicule, les éléments se déchaînent, mettant en péril son engagement mais il fait face, sans renoncer à son label. Il retrace une année de travail dans les vignes, entraînant le lecteur dans les coulisses de la viticulture et révélant les difficultés engendrées par le choix du bio. …

After rubbing your eyes and maybe even hitting your forehead with the palm of your hand a few times to convince yourself that, yes indeed, in fact a young pianist has chosen to make his concerto recording debut with the Tchaikovsky and Grieg concertos, go ahead and have a listen. Denis Kozhukhin, who took first prize at the 2010 Queen Elisabeth, here partners with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Vassily Sinaisky. Out of repertory that has been celebrated, picked over and just about played to death over the course of almost a century and a half, they create magic.