Plaisir 1952

This 31 CD box set is being released to celebrate what would have been her 100th birthday in December 2015. The set contains all the recital programmes of song, opera and operetta tha t she recorded for EMI between 1952 and 1974, and also included two live recitals.
All the recordings have been newly remasteredto the highest standards by various studios including Abbey Road.

This 31 CD box set is being released to celebrate what would have been her 100th birthday in December 2015. The set contains all the recital programmes of song, opera and operetta tha t she recorded for EMI between 1952 and 1974, and also included two live recitals. All the recordings have been newly remasteredto the highest standards by various studios including Abbey Road. A reigning soprano of her era, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) remains renowned for her vocal beauty and elegance and for her acute interpretative insight – above all in the music of Mozart, Wolf and Strauss.

Jean-Pierre Rampal is often considered the greatest flutist of the modern era. In addition to his exceptional talent, he raised the flute to unprecedented solo status, popularizing the flute literature, the flute recital and flute recordings. The rediscovery of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire for the flute is one of his outstanding achievements, as well as his numerous collaborations with composers; over 100 works have been written for and premiered by him. He recorded for Erato from the mid-1950s, with many discs receiving awards internationally. This is the second of four boxed sets comprising the complete Erato recordings (1954 to 1982) and the complete HMV recordings (1952-1976), gathered together for the first time. The set ranges from the masterpieces of Mozart, Handel and Bach to modern repertoire by Damase and Arma.

Jean-Pierre Rampal is often considered the greatest flutist of the modern era. In addition to his exceptional talent, he raised the flute to unprecedented solo status, popularizing the flute literature, the flute recital and flute recordings. The rediscovery of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire for the flute is one of his outstanding achievements, as well as his numerous collaborations with composers; over 100 works have been written for and premiered by him. He recorded for Erato from the mid-1950s, with many discs receiving awards internationally. This is the second of four boxed sets comprising the complete Erato recordings (1954 to 1982) and the complete HMV recordings (1952-1976), gathered together for the first time. The set ranges from the masterpieces of Mozart, Handel and Bach to modern repertoire by Damase and Arma.

Josef (1827-1870), Johann (1804-1849), Johann Jr (1825-1899) Strauss. Strauss is the name of a legendary Austrian family dynasty that has produced several waltz composers and outstanding band masters, and one of the members also wrote well-known operettas.

Philosopher, c'est penser par soi-même, chercher la liberté et le bonheur, dans la vérité. Mais nul n'y parvient sans l'aide de la pensée des autres, sans ces grands philosophes qui depuis l'Antiquité ont voulu éclairer les grandes questions de la vie humaine. Pour nous aider dans nos premiers pas, André Comte-Sponville nous propose ici l'approche de douze thèmes éternels, tels que la politique et la morale, l'amour et la mort, la connaissance et la sagesse…

L'œil et l'Esprit est le dernier écrit que Merleau-Ponty put achever de son vivant.
Installé, pour deux ou trois mois, dans la campagne provençale, non loin d'Aix, au Tholonet, goûtant le plaisir de ce lieu qu'on sentait fait pour être habité, mais surtout, jouissant chaque jour du paysage qui porte à jamais l'empreinte de l'œil de Cézanne, Merleau-ponty réinterroge la vision, en même temps que la peinture. …

« Je partage avec vous mes souvenirs, guidés par la poésie, le plaisir, et tous liés par la gourmandise et l’amitié. C’est un voyage dans le temps, teinté de liberté et assaisonné à ma façon. Une invitation à goûter la cuisine à travers l’humain. »
De son enfance vendéenne, entre la boulangerie paternelle et l’auberge de sa grand-mère, à sa carrière internationale de grand chef renommé, Jean Soulard nous livre les savoureuses anecdotes qu’il a glanées au cours d’une vie bien remplie. Son recueil est un joyeux défilé de personnages attachants et d’animaux sympathiques …

Les Hommes de bonne volonté, parus de 1932 à 1946, constituent l'œuvre majeure de Jules Romains. Cette fresque en vingt-sept volumes, dont l'action s'étend de 1908 à 1933, propose une vaste mise en scène du premier quart du vingtième siècle secoué par la guerre de 1914 et par les bouleversements sociaux qui l'ont précédée et suivie. Une multitude de personnages, issus de toutes les classes sociales, de "bonnes" comme de "mauvaises" volontés sont là, recréés avec un souffle étonnant par un romancier parfaitement maître de son métier. …