Stephane Grappeli

This brand new World music album features violin great Dr. L. Subramaniam in conversation with violin virtuoso Stephane Grappelli as they weave magical Indo-Western sounds in eight incredibly astounding tracks full of verve. The music is infused with classical intonations, where both maestros bring their distinct styles to the fore. This album is a musical creation of two of the greatest maestros of the violin as they interphase with each other on a rare and unique fusion platform.

Ulysses and Monteverdi: passion and action at the heart of musical drama. Penelope sings of her endless wait, her hope to see the king of her heart again, while her suitors besiege her to take her hand and the throne. The return of Ulysses to Ithaca after twenty years of wandering brings the drama to a close. Travelling incognito disguised as an old man, he arrives at the palace for the contest that Penelope has arranged: whoever manages to bend Odysseus' former bow will have the hand of the queen. The old man in rags presents himself to the court, and achieves his revenge.

Ulysses and Monteverdi: passion and action at the heart of musical drama. Penelope sings of her endless wait, her hope to see the king of her heart again, while her suitors besiege her to take her hand and the throne. The return of Ulysses to Ithaca after twenty years of wandering brings the drama to a close. Travelling incognito disguised as an old man, he arrives at the palace for the contest that Penelope has arranged: whoever manages to bend Odysseus' former bow will have the hand of the queen. The old man in rags presents himself to the court, and achieves his revenge.

An organist at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles alongside François Couperin, François d’Agincour rubbed shoulders with the likes of Scarlatti, Bach, Handel and Rameau. Lesser known than his famous counterparts, this Normandy-born musician, who later moved to Paris, never created any operas or grandiose motets that could have established him as one of the greats in the musical hall of fame. Instead, he left behind a collection of organ pieces that has yet to be published, a few arias and this beautiful Livre de Pièces de clavecin from 1733 that was dedicated to Queen Marie Leszczinska, the wife of Louis XV… which is just glorious.

Transfiguration is an album and concert experience featuring harpist Valerie Milot and cellist Stephane Tetreault performing works by contemporary composers in a spellbinding cinematic digital environment.

In 1607, Claudio Monteverdi premiered his Orfeo for the Carnival opening in the Court theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in the history of music, real characters are brought to life with deeply moving human feelings: with this exceptional dramatic power, modern opera in born. Stéphane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and its historical instrumentation, after Le Retour d’Ulysse dans sa Patrie, has brought together some of the finest vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he has entrusted the eponymous role to the splendid and sensitive Julian Prégardien, to sing all the magnificence of the first true hero in the history of opera.

In 1607, Claudio Monteverdi premiered his Orfeo for the Carnival opening in the Court theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in the history of music, real characters are brought to life with deeply moving human feelings: with this exceptional dramatic power, modern opera in born. Stéphane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and its historical instrumentation, after Le Retour d’Ulysse dans sa Patrie, has brought together some of the finest vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he has entrusted the eponymous role to the splendid and sensitive Julian Prégardien, to sing all the magnificence of the first true hero in the history of opera.

The genesis of the duet partnership of pianist Jacky Terrasson and trumpeter/flugelhornist Stephane Belmondo stretches back 30 years. Close friends from their days living and playing in Paris and then while band mates in vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater’s groups in the mid-‘90s, the pair enjoyed a simpatico musical relationship. But they lost contact over the years until six years ago when they reconnected and played a duo show in the south of France. That proved to be the seed of their sublime duo album on Impulse, "Mother", that was recorded last fall and in April of this year at Recall Studios in the southern France village of Pompignan.