Deux amis associent leurs compétences pour réduire la pollution plastique dans les océans. Les deux hommes ont pourtant des profils diamétralement opposés : Abhijee Chakir est un mafieux Indien et Alan Garfield un universitaire Américain. Pour financer leur croisade les complices mettent en place deux escroqueries d’une inventivité inouïe. Puis ils s’attaquent à des piliers économiques et politiques pour faire bouger les lignes. Tous les coups sont permis pour faire triompher la cause : la menace, le mensonge, l’instrumentation, et même le divin…
Douze concepts abordés en autant de récits dans lesquels Kant, Spinoza ou encore Platon s'invitent pour aider à surmonter les aléas de l'existence et dédramatiser ces situations avec humour et esprit. …
The epic tale of the fall of Troy haunted Berlioz from childhood and inspired some of his most passionately dramatic, richly colorful music. This is Colin Davis's second recording of Les Troyens, following his (out-of-print) 1969 version. Magnificent though it was, some reckoned that reading lacked something in zip. Here, however, such reservations could never apply. Recorded across several lavishly praised concert performances in London in December 2000, this Troyens has an extraordinary electricity and rhythmic drive.
Colin Davis’s 1969 recording remains a landmark event, the first time this grand opera of Meyerbeerian length, spectacular éclat and Wagnerian artistic ambition had found its way complete onto LP. It effectively changed views about Berlioz the opera composer and orchestral genius and has for many remained the yardstick by which all later performances have been judged. Although studio recorded, it was based on the Covent Garden casting of the day – Jon Vickers’s heroic Aeneas and Josephine Veasey’s voluptuous Dido – with a couple of Frenchmen to boost the ranks of lesser Trojans and Carthaginians…