Turban et Chapeaux

If a composer writes 24 caprices for the violin, and if he himself is also a uniquely virtuoso violinist, then a comparison with the 24 caprices by Paganini is inevitable: Henri Marteau was not only appreciated and revered as one of the greatest violinists of his time, but his compositional work was lost in the background. He shared this fate with Niccolò Paganini, who was also experienced during his lifetime more as a ""warlock"" of the violin than as a serious composer and musician. So, if this comparison is almost inevitable, it must be mentioned that Paganini himself, with his main work published in 1820, also took up the example of other composers, such as the Etudes and Caprices of Rodolphe Kreutzer. The subtitle of Henri Marteau's Caprices: ""d'exécution transcendante"" is also very revealing. Moreover, Marteau has his miniatures accompanied throughout by the piano, unlike Paganini, who uses the violin alone. The violin virtuoso Ingolf Turban considered his own violin class at the Hochschule München predestined for this first recording of all 24 of Marteau's caprices. So together they dared to do the almost unbelievable: all twelve students in his class were involved in this mammoth task, the absolute peak of which, of course, lies in the very elaborate piano accompaniment. Here he engaged the pianist Tomoko Nishikawa, who confidently took on this mammoth task!

Shamini Flint est surtout connue pour sa série de romans policier dont le personnage central est l'inspecteur Singh.
Cette série à été publiée dans de nombreuses langues à travers le monde…

Bruch, Strauss and Busoni one would think that the works of such famous composers have all appeared on recordings. There are still a number of gaps, however, which come to light time and again. These three violin concertos are absent or only weakly represented in current recording catalogs; one can rightly speak of them as discoveries. Bruch’s Second Violin Concerto, although much more interesting than his Concerto in G Minor, has long remained in its shadow.

Though he is most often remembered for orchestrating Liszt's tone poems, Swiss composer Joachim Raff's own compositions are nevertheless quite interesting with much to recommend them. The Fourth Grand Sonata subtitled "Chormatische Sonate in einem Satze" lives up to its title by being intensely chromatic and in one thematically unified movement, lasting better than a quarter hour. The Fifth Grand Sonata is a big-boned, four-movement work lasting nearly half an hour with romantic themes, muscular developments, and powerful climaxes. The Sonatillen, originally a set of classical pasticcios for piano solo later adopted by the composer for violin and piano, is a charming little suite in five movements lasting less than 20 minutes.

The combination of organ and violin dates back to the Baroque era. Many of the sonatas for violin and basso continuo can be performed on the organ just as well or even more colorfully than on the harpsichord. Henri Marteau builds entirely on this tradition with his Fantasy for organ and violin op. 27, recorded here for the first time. The violin virtuoso and pedagogue, celebrated worldwide, was also a very prolific composer and, in addition to chamber music, wrote two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony, an opera and several organ works, for which he was inspired by the soft romantic registers of the pneumatic organ of the time in his adopted home of Lichtenberg in Upper Franconia let.

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The figure of George Frideric Handel cast a long shadow over musical London in the first half of the eighteenth century, condemning many of his contemporaries – fine composers themselves – to long years of obscurity. This recording throws light into forgotten corners and discovers some glittering gems, some of them demanding dazzling vocal fireworks from their performers. Several of these composers set scenes from Classical mythology or Old Testament narratives – but they also explore the underside of the Baroque psyche in one of David’s darkest psalms and in a representation of Arcadian madness.

Anna rejoint l'expédition scientifique Ocean Arctic Protect en Nouvelle-Sibérie, une région sous hégémonie russe où la fonte des glaces libère des menaces issues du passé de l'humanité. Pris dans une tempête glaciaire, le bateau s'échoue sur une île peuplée d'ours et de loups. Quand les hommes de l'équipage, happés par la folie, deviennent violents, Anna entame un journal de bord. …

Patrick Senécal est un scénariste, réalisateur, dramaturge et écrivain de fantastique, d'horreur et de roman policier québécois.
En 2010, Senécal écrira "Contre Dieu", court roman n’étant formé que d’une seule et longue phrase. Il commencera en 2011 la série "Malphas" (2011-2014)…