En plein banquet, à Babylone, au milieu de la musique et des rires, soudain Alexandre s'écroule, terrassé par la fièvre. Ses généraux se pressent autour de lui, redoutant la fin mais préparant la suite, se disputant déjà l'héritage et le privilège d'emporter sa dépouille. Le devoir et l'ambition, l'amour et la fidélité, le deuil et l'errance mènent les personnages vers l'ivresse d'une dernière chevauchée.
Claude Debussy, who died 100 years ago in March 1918, is one of history's greatest composers and the most influential of all French composers. A father of modern music, Debussy lived in the early days of the recording era.
It may not contain everything written by French modernist composer Francis Poulenc – the solo works, the chamber works, the stage works, and the songs with piano accompaniment are naturally not included – but Charles Dutoit's five-disc set of the orchestral works, the concerted works, the sacred choral works, and the vocal works with orchestral accompaniment by Poulenc has everything else that matters and lots, lots more. It has the charming Piano Concerto and the delightful Two Piano Concerto, the impressive Organ Concerto and the beguiling harpsichord concerto called Concert champêtre, the four-movement Sinfonietta and the seven-movement Suite française, the ballet Les biches and the Concerto chorégraphique called Aubade, plus 11 other shorter orchestral works.
Dictionnaire Amoureux De François Mitterrand – Jack Lang
Le 8 janvier 2016, cela fera 20 ans que François Mitterrand s'est éteint. Jack Lang fut un des témoins privilégiés de la carrière politique de François Mitterrand, aussi longue qu'exceptionnelle, qui fera de lui le premier homme de gauche à être élu à l'Élysée en 1981. …
André Cluytens, though born in Belgium, achieved fame as one of the supreme French conductors of his era, renowned for his refinement and the sheer joy of his music-making. In the mid-20th century he built a substantial, varied and distinguished discography and became the first conductor to record the complete Beethoven symphonies with the Berliner Philharmoniker. This 64-disc set, uniting all his recordings of orchestral, concerto and choral repertoire, embraces the mainstream and the esoteric, and includes numerous items making their debut on CD or retrieved from the archives and released for the very first time.
Richard Leech has sung his Raoul to enthusiastic audiences in Berlin and elsewhere, and it is good to hear a voice which has such a clean ring to it, evenly produced and tastefully directed (even if not invariably observing Meyerbeer's detailed instructions). The Valentine is Francoise Pollet, an exceptional singer (especially among the French) in the sympathetic roundness of her tone, exactly right for a good nine-tenths of the role (the remaining fraction calling for more rejoicing on the high Cs). As Nevers, the excellent Gilles Cachemaille gives a courtly, well-schooled performance. –Gramophone