Vanille Libre de Toi

A celebrity of some importance in France, Eddy Mitchell began his career in the late '50 with the rock & roll group Les Chaussettes Noires ("the Black Socks"). Mitchell went solo after a few hits with the group in the early '60s, and over the ensuing decades embraced several styles of American music.

This is the masterwork, Gluck's last important opera, which convinced the teenage medical student Berlioz, when he first heard it in 1821, that he had to be a composer. He worshipped Gluck and took his side in the phoney "Gluck vs.Piccini War". He set himself the task of sitting in the Conservatoire library to copy out the entire score in order to absorb its lessons. Its directness and drama influenced his artistic style his whole life through, as evinced by key points in "Les Troyens".

Du haut de ses 90 ans survenus le 22 mai 2014, Charles Aznavour contemple une carrière longue de 68 années de service. Le fils d'un cuisinier arménien qui a débuté dans le duo Roche et Aznavour, avant d'être pris en affection par Édith Piaf, peut se glorifier d'avoir apporté à la chanson française des classiques par dizaines, que cette quadruple compilation de quatre vingt-dix titres se propose de répertorier.