Pascal Petit

Les Islandais n'ont pas fait la révolution, mais ont surmonté une des plus grandes crises financières de l'Histoire en cherchant des solutions originales pour sortir de l'impasse.
Selon la légende, l'Islande aurait vaincu la terrible crise financière de 2008 en tournant le dos au capitalisme, en nationalisant ses banques, en chassant le FMI et en se débarrassant de sa classe politique. …

For listeners who prefer their Ravel lushly textured, luminously colored, and luxuriantly impressionistic, this four-disc set of his orchestral music performed by Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal will be just the thing. Recorded between 1981 and 1995 in warmly opulent Decca sound and including all the canonical works plus the two piano concerts and the opera L'Enfant et les sortiléges, Dutoit's approach to Ravel is decidedly sensual, even tactile. One can feel the excitement in the closing "Dance générale" of Daphnis et Chloé, sense the energy in La Valse, smell the sea in Une barque sur l'océan, and touch the dancer's flushed skin in Boléro. This is not to say that details are lost in Dutoit's performances – with the superlative playing of the Montreal orchestra, one can assuredly hear everything in the scores. Nor is this to say that Dutoit neglects the music's clear shapes and lucid forms – with a decisive beat and a clean technique, Dutoit's interpretations are models of clarity. But it is assuredly to assert that, for sheer aural beauty, these recordings cannot be beat. With the very virtuosic and very French playing of Pascal Rogé in the two piano concertos plus very characterful singing in L'Enfant, this set will be mandatory listening for all those who love Ravel.

Since the latter half of the 80 s, Pascal Rogé, who has been actively involved in Poulenc's works, has collaborated with Duboscq of Soprano, a Kashu Maille from Bariton, to record his sophisticated songs composed for poems under Apollinaire. An album that allows you to get drunk with delicate accompaniment and unquoted beautiful voices.

Since the latter half of the 80 s, Pascal Rogé, who has been actively involved in Poulenc's works, has collaborated with Duboscq of Soprano, a Kashu Maille from Bariton, to record his sophisticated songs composed for poems under Apollinaire. An album that allows you to get drunk with delicate accompaniment and unquoted beautiful voices.

Ecrivain, journaliste, pasticheur, nègre littéraire… Pascal Fioretto collectionne les talents quand d'autres compilent les emmerdements. Avec son humour légendaire et armé de sa finesse de jugement de compétition, il décide aujourd'hui de se flageller pour notre plus grand plaisir en décryptant nos travers (qui sont, il en convient, parfois les siens) dans un petit dictionnaire de nos quotidiens urbains et sots. Comportements, hobbies, technologies, loisirs, culture…

Qu’est-ce qu’une porte ?
Dans sa définition même elle implique l’existence d’un "dehors", autrement dit de ce qui est "hors de la porte". Nous y sommes : la porte est d’abord vue de l’intérieur de la maison par celui qui s’y inscrit… A partir de là tout est à penser : le dedans, le dehors, l’ouvert, le fermé, le bien-être, le danger, et c’est pour elle que nous nous sommes institués, nous les hommes, en grands paranoïaques autant qu’en dieux et en techniciens ! …

Printemps 1718. Alors qu'un incendie ravage le Petit-Pont, menaçant Notre-Dame de Paris, la duchesse du Maine prépare un coup d'Etat pour renverser le régent Philippe d'Orléans et prendre le pouvoir.
Prix Du Guesclin 2022 (catégorie fiction)…

The two-piano arrangement of orchestral music remained a commercially viable form until the advent of recordings, and even beyond. This recording by the veteran French team of Pascal and Ami Rogé includes several works originally written for two pianos: Ravel's Rhapsodie espagnole and Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose Suite), the latter better known in its orchestral version, and Saint-Saëns' underrated Scherzo, Op. 87, whose use of whole-tone scales shows that Debussy was not alone in breathing that wind from the east.