Salvatore, Knight Adamo, known commonly as Adamo, is a musician and singer known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Italy and his family's ancestry is Italian, but he grew up from a very early age in Belgium and has made that country his homeland. He first gained popularity throughout Europe and later in the Middle East, Latin America, Japan, and the United States. He has sold more than 80 million albums and 20 million singles making him one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world. He mainly performs in French but has also sung in English, German, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. "Tombe la neige", "La nuit", and "Inch'Allah" remain his best known songs. He is currently the best selling Belgian musician of all time.
Natalie Dessay reinvents the cult repertoire of poet Claude Nougaro. A project arranged, directed and directed by the emblematic Yvan Cassar, who was the director of Nougaro's last two albums.
Après 200 millions de disques vendus dans le monde et 54 ans de carrière, Mireille Mathieu sort le 9 novembre 2018 un nouvel album (le premier en France depuis 13 ans) intitulé «Mes classiques», où elle revisite les plus grands airs classiques composés par Tchaïkovski, Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Fauré, Haendel… Accompagnée par les 90 musiciens de l’Ensemble Symphonique de Prague, Mireille Mathieu interprète en 7 langues différentes (français, anglais, allemand, espagnol, italien, russe, latin) de magnifiques chansons écrites par des paroliers de renom tels que Claude Lemesle. L’album contient également «Meine Rose (Letzte Rose)», chanson adaptée du sublime poème irlandais «The Last Rose of Summer», et le cantique mondialement connu «Amazing Grace». Enregistré à Prague en juillet 2017 aux Smecky Studios et mastérisé aux mythiques Abbey Road Studios de Londres, «Mes classiques» est le disque que Mireille Mathieu a secrètement toujours rêvé de faire. Ce rêve devient enfin réalité pour elle avec ce très bel album, écrin parfait pour sa voix unique.
A composer admired by his contemporaries, Josquin Desprez (ca 1450-1521) was a solitary artist who sublimated in his chansons the melancholy character and the elegance emblematic of the Renaissance. For their first recording, Dulces Exuviae explore the intimacy of these chansons in a fresh light: the sweet melodies are embellished by ornaments and accompanied on the lute, leaving ample room for improvisation, and thus allowing music to come out all the more alive, delicate and filled with emotion. The ensemble Dulces Exuviae is baritone Romain Bockler and lutenist Bor Zuljan.
Un aspect important d’un grand compositeur de la Renaissance, servi par des interprètes parfaitement rodés à ce répertoire et à l’esprit de l’époque : une belle réussite.
La Dame de mes Songes, Dulcinea, as sung by Alexandre Arnoux and Jacques Ibert in the third of the four Songs of Don Quixote (1932), is La Dame de mes songes. It could also be Spain, as dreamed of, at least occasionally from the 1830s to the 1930s, by most French composers who usually reduced it to Andalusia and what they believed to be flamenco. If they stop over in Andalusia, the performers of this disc also travel to Old Castile, Extremadura and Murcia with the help of composers such as Henri Collet, Federico García Lorca, Emiliana de Zubeldía or Raoul Laparra and Jacques Ibert.