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War and Peace [Guerre et Paix] 1956 [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by galmuchet at June 24, 2014

Napoleon’s tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

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Violaine de Charnage, "Un conte de neige et de mort", 2 tomes eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at May 14, 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 …

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Natalie Dessay & Michel Legrand: Entre Elle & Lui - Live in Versailles (2014) Music

Posted by peotuvave at Jan. 29, 2015

Natalie Dessay & Michel Legrand: Entre Elle & Lui - Live in Versailles (2014)
Full BluRay 1:1 | BDMV | 1080i MPEG-4 AVC @ 26000 kbps; 29,970 fps | 01:46:07 | 22.14 GB
Audio1: French Dolby Digital 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -4dB
Audio2: French LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Genre: Classical | Subtitles: None

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.

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A Carta / The Letter (1999) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 16, 2015

A Carta (1999)
A Film by Manoel de Oliveira
DVD9 | ISO | PAL 16:9 | Cover | 01:43:19 | 8,02 Gb (incl. 5%)
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Genre: Drama

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

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György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij - Rameau: Dardanus, RCT 35 (Revised 1744 Version) (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 7, 2021

György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra, Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij - Rameau: Dardanus, RCT 35 (Revised 1744 Version) (2021)
FLAC tracks | 02:47:40 | 851 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Glossa

György Vashegyi’s new recording of Rameau’s Dardanus superbly demonstrates the Dijon-born composer’s genius, but also the mastery which Vashegyi – with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir – has acquired in the music of the Late French Baroque. In conjunction with the preparation of a fresh edition for the Rameau Opera Omnia of the May 1744 version of Dardanus (under the aegis of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), Vashegyi conducts from a score prepared by the composer (and his librettist Leclerc de La Bruère) following the work’s rejection by Paris Opéra audiences in 1739, with the intention of reinforcing the “tragédie”’s dramatic action.

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Jodie Devos, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Rameau: Zoroastre 1749 (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 12, 2022

Jodie Devos, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie & Alexis Kossenko - Rameau: Zoroastre 1749 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:44:30 | 737 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) left two very different versions of his tragédie en musique Zoroastre : the first, in 1749, suffered from cabals and the work was withdrawn from the repertory. Rameau gave it a thoroughgoing revision in 1756. At this time, he was at the height of his powers. Melody, harmony, orchestration and choral writing no longer held any secrets for him. Zoroastre brought still further innovation. For the first time, he dispensed with a prologue, and turned the overture into a philosophical "programme", the struggle between day and night, between good and evil.

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Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - Lully: Thésée (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 13, 2023

Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - Lully: Thésée (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 162:27 minutes | 2,82 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Aparté, Official Digital Download

With Thésée, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques continue their tour of Lully's operas, in which they have become specialists. Lully's third musical tragedy, and one of the least recorded, Thésée recounts the hero's youth, long before his battle with the Minotaur or his intrigues with Ariadne and Phèdre. The story takes the listener on a journey through a series of changing settings - from the underworld to the island of paradise, from Versailles to Athens - supported by the incredible vocal eloquence of Lully's music, underpinned by a constant and hitherto unrivalled tension.

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Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - Lully: Thésée (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 11, 2023

Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - Lully: Thésée (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 784 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 385 MB
2:41:45 | Classical | Label: Aparté

With Thésée, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques continue theirtour of Lully’s operas, in which they have become specialists. Lully’s third musical tragedy, and one of the least recorded, Thésée recountsthe hero’s youth, long before his battle with the Minotaur or his intrigues withAriadne and Phèdre. The story takes the listener on a journey through a series of changingsettings - from the underworld to the island of paradise, from Versailles toAthens - supported by the incredible vocal eloquence of Lully’s music,underpinned by a constant and hitherto unrivalled tension.

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Jarvi, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (2012) Music

Posted by peotuvave at Aug. 5, 2015

This two-disc set marks the beginning of a new project devoted to Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores. We start the survey with the complete score of The Sleeping Beauty, recorded on SACD. Swan Lake and The Nutcracker will follow in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Tchaikovsky was approached by the Director of the Imperial Theatres in St Petersburg, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, in 1888 about a possible ballet adaptation of Charles Perrault’s La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty). The vision was to stage the production in the style of Louis XIV, allowing the musical fantasy to run high and melodies to be written in the spirit of Lully, Bach, and Rameau. This proposal for a fairy-tale ballet rooted firmly in both the rococo and baroque periods appealed to Tchaikovsky, and The Sleeping Beauty was premiered in 1890, with choreography by Petipa, the principal choreographer of his day.

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James Ehnes, Robert deMaine, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (2012) Music

Posted by tirexiss at May 30, 2023

This two-disc set marks the beginning of a new project devoted to Tchaikovsky's ballet scores. We start the survey with the complete score of The Sleeping Beauty, recorded on SACD. Swan Lake and The Nutcracker will follow in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Tchaikovsky was approached by the Director of the Imperial Theatres in St Petersburg, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, in 1888 about a possible ballet adaptation of Charles Perrault's La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).

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