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L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Jonathan Nott - Debussy & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande (2021)

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Jonathan Nott - Debussy & Schoenberg: Pelléas & Mélisande (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 345 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 213 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:29:14
Classical | Label: Pentatone

This new OSR recording presents the two most ambitious musical responses to Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1893 epoch-making play Pelléas et Mélisande.
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi - Neeme Jarvi conducts Ibert (2016)

Jacques Ibert - Orchestral Works (2016)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Neeme Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 350 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 195 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5168 | Time: 01:22:15

Neeme Järvi and the OSR continue their exploration of French orchestral music with this fourth album: a merry collection from the best of the vigorously ebullient music of Jacques Ibert. Among the numerous winners of the famous Prix de Rome between its institution by Napoleon in 1803 and its abandonment in 1968, the twentieth century provides us with repertoire works from only one composer: Jacques Ibert, whose characteristically clear orchestration is emphasised by strong melodic lines and supported by lively ostinato patterns in the bass. At the same time, the album reveals what an eclectic composer Ibert was. The contrast between his two best-known pieces is a perfect example: Divertissement, for small orchestra, is light-hearted, even frivolous; Escales…, on the other hand, is a ripely romantic work for large orchestra.
Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet - Igor Stravinsky: Ballets, Stage Works, Orchestral Works (2001) 8CD Box Set

Igor Stravinsky: Ballets, Stage Works, Orchestral Works (2001) 8CD Box Set
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Ernest Ansermet, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 2.25 Gb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 467 818-2 | Time: 08:27:52

All the Stravinsky recordings made by Ernest Ansermet and The Suisse Romande Orchestra, digitally remastered in an 8 CD box. The set includes all Stravinsky's major orchestral works at a bargain price in highly respected recordings dating from the late 50's and early 60's.
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi - Joachim Raff: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2014)

Joachim Raff: Symphony No.5 'Lenore'; Overtures; Abends (2014)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Neeme Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 193 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5135 | Time: 01:20:54

This is the second volume in a series from Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande dedicated to the orchestral music of the Swiss-born composer Joachim Raff. Although he was a highly popular and prolific composer during his day, his works quickly fell out of the repertoire after his death and are largely forgotten today. The idiomatic performances by Neeme Järvi and his Swiss orchestra in Volume 1, described as ‘peerless’ by BBC Music (*****), suggest that they are the perfect performers to reinvigorate interest in Raff’s music. This second volume features the rhapsody, Abends, and a number of overtures and preludes alongside Symphony No. 5. Subtitled Lenore, the fifth is one of Raff’s so-called programme symphonies, the only one based on a precise extra-musical source: Gottfried August Bürger’s poetic ballad of the same name. The shorter works show very different sides of Raff’s compositional personality.
Paul Kletzki, Suisse Romande Orchestra - Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3 (1968/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Paul Kletzki, Suisse Romande Orchestra - Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 (1968/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 40:09 minutes | 1,56 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 40:09 minutes | 825 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Paul Kletzki’s Rachmaninov Third emerges as one of the finest-ever recordings of this work. Everything falls into place as Kletzki exploits Rachmaninov’s luxurious orchestral palette to create a magical atmosphere, with lively pacing, idiomatic phrasing, and uninhibited use of rubato…
Marek Janowski, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.2 (2013)

Marek Janowski, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.2 (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 234 Mb | Total time: 54:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC 5186 448 | Recorded: 2012

To this day, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor continues to be the least frequently performed of all his symphonies. Not as revolutionary as the first, or as brutally reckless as the third, Bruckner’s core ambition with his Second is a constant testing, exploration, and expansion of the possibilities of the symphony. Conductor Marek Janowski and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande succeed in doing justice to the work, and the recording is clear proof of Janowski’s brilliance when it comes to conducting Bruckner. In reviewing the recording, Gramophone declared: “There’s more than a touch of the great Eugen Jochum in Janowski’s approach.”

Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, "La fuite en Suisse"  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Nov. 14, 2020
Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, "La fuite en Suisse"

Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, "La fuite en Suisse : Les Juifs à la frontière franco-suisse durant les années de la "Solution finale"
2020 | ISBN: 2702169007 | Français | EPUB | 1448 pages | 2.3 MB

Les Juifs à la frontière franco-suisse durant les années de « la Solution finale » Itinéraires, stratégies, accueil et refoulement.
À l’été 1942, « la Solution finale de la question juive » est déclenchée aux Pays-Bas, en Belgique et en France. Des milliers de Juifs prennent la fuite en direction de la Suisse, à travers la zone occupée ou la zone libre. Beaucoup sont arrêtés pendant leur voyage et déportés. Certains atteignent néanmoins la frontière helvétique. …

Georges Andrey, "L'Histoire de la Suisse pour les Nuls"  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Sept. 15, 2020
Georges Andrey, "L'Histoire de la Suisse pour les Nuls"

Georges Andrey, "L'Histoire de la Suisse pour les Nuls"
2020 | ISBN: 2412057583 | Français | EPUB | 943 pages | 1.7 MB

Vous vous pensez nul en histoire suisse ?
Qu'à cela ne tienne ! Quand vous aurez lu en tous sens le livre que vous tenez en main, vous ne le serez plus ! Des origines du peuple suisse (Alamans, Ostrogoths, Francs…), aux élections fédérales de 2019, en passant par les emblèmes de la culture et de l'histoire suisses – comme Guillaume Tell ou encore cette fameuse " neutralité " dont on parle tant –, ce livre piquera votre curiosité, meublera vos loisirs et comblera vos lacunes ! …

Jean-Jacques Bouquet, "Histoire de la Suisse"  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at June 12, 2021
Jean-Jacques Bouquet, "Histoire de la Suisse"

Jean-Jacques Bouquet, "Histoire de la Suisse"
2021 | ISBN: 2715406657 | Français | EPUB | 128 pages | 1 MB

Un petit pays sans matières premières, sans unité de langue ni de religion, mais un peuple doué de pragmatisme, de capacité d’adaptation, de méfiance envers tout ce qui est ronflant et clinquant – au point de se replier parfois dans sa coquille. Un peuple qui, de guerrier est devenu neutre, qui, de pauvre est devenu riche, qui a aussi dû surmonter ses divisions et apprendre la tolérance. Une histoire qui a donné au monde Pestalozzi, Dunant ou encore Giacometti, et pas seulement Guillaume Tell. …
Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Borodin, Glazunov, Glinka (1954,1961,1964,1966/2021)

Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Borodin, Glazunov, Glinka (1954,1961,1964,1966/2021)
DSD64 2.0 | 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Time: 01:17:02 | ~ 3.13 GB
or 24-bit/96 kHz | Flac(Tracks) | ~ 1.32 Gb
Classical/Orchestral | Decca / Esoteric | SACD-R

~ Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Borodin: Symphony No.2; Glazunov: The Seasons; Glinka: Valse-Fantasie