Founded in 1906, Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix des Bois (Little Singers of the Wooden Cross) are renowned as one of the world's most established children's choirs. Founded by Paul Berthier and Pierre Martin, two students on vacation at l'Abbeye de Tamie, the Paris-based traveling choir broke tradition with its lack of affiliation to a particular parish or cathedral. Directed by Father Fernand Maillet, they soon developed an international presence thanks to performances at the Vatican and an appearance in the 1945 film La Cage aux Rossignols, and continued to remain active throughout the 20th century, with singer/songwriter Matthieu Chédid, Les Prêtres' Charles Troesch, and Olympic rowing champion Adrien Hardy among some of their famous former members. By its centenary year, which was celebrated by a France2 show featuring duets with the likes of Tina Arena, Lara Fabian, and Nolwenn Leroy, the choir school had developed into a full-time educational institution, combining regular studies with a global touring schedule.
The encompassing review of Chanson .The names and some form of flow what follow time and evolution of Frenchmanship in chanson.
Many Romantic composers owe their fame to one of their symphonic poems. Alongside acknowledged French masterpieces in the genre, the fifteen tracks presented here include four previously unrecorded works and several rarities by women composers. The Orchestre National de Lyon, a great champion of French Romantic music, offers a palette of shimmering colours under the baton of Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider as it relates in music the legend of Merlin the Magician, the fairytale of Sleeping Beauty and the misadventures of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
L'histoire du premier héros de la littérature, le roi d'Uruk, un tyran indomptable, et de son périple tumultueux qui le conduit à l'acceptation sereine de son destin de mortel. En donnant voix et force à la souffrance et à la peur de la mort, en décrivant l'amour, la vulnérabilité et la quête de la sagesse, ce récit mythique touche le coeur et l'humanité de chaque homme. …
Un homme au bord du gouffre à la recherche d’un vieil ami disparu. La dangereuse manie d’un maître chanteur à se faire trop d’ennemis pour son propre bien. L’obsession d’un peintre misanthrope reproduisant la même toile, encore et encore. Un neurochirurgien retraité fasciné par la cryptozoologie qui préfère vivre en marge de la société. La légende d’un cavalier fantôme hantant depuis des siècles le pittoresque village de Val-Dormant. Dans la nouvelle originale La légende de Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving a réservé au personnage d’Ichabod Crane un destin fort obscur. …
Of all Berlioz’s Shakespeare-inspired works, Roméo et Juliette is unquestionably his masterpiece. It is also cast in an innovative new form, a kind of ‘super-symphony’ that incorporates elements of symphony, opera and oratorio. Berlioz composed no singing roles for the central characters, but allowed others to comment or narrate, giving latitude to incarnate the lovers in a musical language of extraordinary delicacy and passion. The vivid Ball Scene and Romeo at the Capulet tomb are intensely dramatic but the heart of the work is the Love Scene, a long symphonic poem which Richard Wagner called ‘the melody of the 19th century’.
La carrière du jeune Muhammad Ali commence par une rencontre au Columbia Gym de Louisville, celle du monde de la boxe, qui va se révèler être une passion. …