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After her studies at music school, Moscow (1972–1980, diploma in Piano, Summa cum laude), Marina Tchebourkina graduated in 1984 from Academic Music College under the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (4-year cycle), where she recieved her diploma Summa cum laude in Music Theory, with specializations in Piano and in Organ…

Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea’s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Adriana’s jealous rival, the Princess de Bouillon. David McVicar’s hit production – the first performance of the opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for more than a century – presents the life of the French actress as a blurring of the distinction between fantasy and reality.

The works on this disc are all early, dating from the first half of the composing life of Saint-Saëns that is, with the one exception of the Marche du couronnement which the composer wrote for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902. In Spartacus, the composer depicts Alphonse Pagèss tragedy on the revolt headed by the ill-fated gladiator in 73 BC by use of bold, chromatic notes, followed by a military allegro which integrates them.

"Un conte de neige et de mort" est une réécriture horrifique et sombre du conte de Blanche-Neige des frères Grimm, signée Violaine de Charnage. Loin de la douceur des versions édulcorées, ce roman plonge le lecteur dans un univers médiéval macabre, où la noirceur de l’âme humaine est explorée sans concession.
Ce roman finaliste du Prix Masterton 2025 …

"Un conte de neige et de mort" est une réécriture horrifique et sombre du conte de Blanche-Neige des frères Grimm, signée Violaine de Charnage. Loin de la douceur des versions édulcorées, ce roman plonge le lecteur dans un univers médiéval macabre, où la noirceur de l’âme humaine est explorée sans concession.
Ce roman finaliste du Prix Masterton 2025 …

Two icons of French song – Natalie Dessay and Michel Legrand – follow the huge worldwide success of their album Entre Elle et Lui with a DVD of the very special concert on the 11th June 2014 at the Orangerie of the Château de Versailles. This is a unique collaboration from two giants of French music. The CD release in 2013 was hotly anticipated and received great critical acclaim upon its release. Natalie Dessay brings her lyrical voice and fresh interpretations to a selection of some of Michel Legrand’s best-loved songs including La Valse des Lilas, Les moulins de mon cœur (Windmills of Your Mind), Duo de Guy et Geneviève, Papa Can You Hear Me and many more.