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Lully: Thésée

Les Talens Lyriques

Opera - Released October 13, 2023 | Aparté

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Christophe Rousset and his Les Talens Lyriques continue their exploration of the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully for the Aparte label with 1675's Thésée ("Theseus"), the composer's third "tragédie en musique" with librettist by Philippe Quinault. Commissioned by King Louis XIV, the libretto recounts some early-life exploits of the titular character from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It was immensely popular for more than a century before finding itself in less demand than later, more compact versions of Quinault's text, which were set by composers such as Handel (Teseo, 1712). What is there for a king and his court not to like when the Prologue declares the king a god and sings the praises of king and kingdom? Rousset has his Les Talens Lyriques in fine form, and the ensemble plays crisply and concisely throughout. Rousset, conducting from the harpsichord, keeps the action moving in this colossal and dramatic work. The soloists, especially mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes as Médée ("Medea") and tenor Mathias Vidal as the titular Thésée, display clear expertise in the realm of early French opera. This work is a major vehicle for mezzos in the role of the jealous sorceress Médée, and Deshayes is splendid. The Prologue has some awkward, almost hesitant singing from the chorus, but as the work progresses, the Chœur de chambre de Namur becomes stronger and, in the end, proves to be an asset to the whole (consider their turn as the inhabitants of the underworld with Deshayes on "Sortez, ombres, sortez de la nuit éternelle" from Act Two). This is a worthy addition of a lesser-known opera to the growing Lully collection from Les Talens Lyriques.© Keith Finke /TiVo

Les Autres c’est nous

Bigflo & Oli

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 24, 2022 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Le monde réel

Dominique A

French Music - Released September 16, 2022 | Wagram Music - Cinq 7

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Les autres c’est nous

Bigflo & Oli

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 24, 2022 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Pitt Ocha et le vélo à propulsion phonique

Les Ogres De Barback

Pop - Released October 21, 2022 | Irfan, le label

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Une sorcière comme les autres

Anne Sylvestre

French Music - Released May 10, 2004 | Epm

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Marais: La rêveuse et autres pièces de viole (Alpha Collection)

Sophie Watillon

Classical - Released January 1, 2002 | Alpha Classics

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Mes Débuts

Françoise Hardy

French Music - Released November 9, 2018 | Universal Digital Enterprises

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Offenbach : La Périchole (Live)

Marc Minkowski

Classical - Released June 14, 2019 | Bru Zane

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Recordings of Offenbach's 1868 operetta La Périchole, here performed in an 1873 revision, have been rather uncommon. True, it doesn't contain any of the big Offenbach hits, and its Peruvian setting, with a variety of Spanish dances and chinoiserie standing in for whatever music might have been heard in colonial Peru, seems increasingly preposterous as time goes on. However, verisimilitude has never been a requirement in operetta, and this story of the titular street singer (who was an actual historical individual) pursued by a sleazy colonial administrator hits a lot of the bases. Anglophone listeners will note that Arthur Sullivan surely knew this music inside and out, and replicated the combination of limpid songs for the heroine and quite a few sharp narrative choruses. This production, recorded live in 2018 at the Festival Radio France Occitanie in Montpellier, is nothing fancy, but that is its charm. La Périchole is nicely sung by a mezzo-soprano with the delightful name of Aude Extrémo, who resists the temptation to ham it up (sample her drunk scene, "Ah, quel diner je viens de faire") and inhabits the role well. The large cast is consistent, and conductor Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, far from their Baroque origins, keep things moving in a lively way. One gets the sense that Offenbach would have been fully satisfied, and the recording is a must for any operetta fan.© TiVo
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La Rêveuse et autres pièces de violes

Sophie Watillon

Classical - Released January 1, 2002 | Alpha Classics

Starmania, le spectacle (Live)

Starmania

French Music - Released October 30, 2019 | Warner (France)

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Vivaldi: Les quatre saisons et autres concertos

Gli Incogniti

Classical - Released August 1, 2008 | Zig-Zag Territoires

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Director and violinist Amandine Beyer acknowledges in her booklet notes for this disc that the world may not seem to need another recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, but then she tops the bar she has set up by delivering an entirely distinctive reading of the work. Her version, with the Italian historical-instrument group Gli Incogniti (who are not quite as unknown as all that), is as strikingly revisionist as the various turbo-powered, operatic Vivaldi recordings that began coming out of Italy in the 1990s, but it is different in flavor. In her own words, Beyer seeks "lightweight forces and freedom of phrasing." The group is small, with microphones put down right in the middle, and you hear lots of internal lines and interplay rather than contrast between orchestra and soloist. The overall feel is light and agile; Beyer doesn't so much push the tempo (although there's a little of that) as imbue the solo lines with maximum variety, creating a fantasy-like feel. That works quite well with the Four Seasons concertos, which are rendered in a colorful enough way that they evoke many of the images in Vivaldi's accompanying printed sonnets (which would have been a profitable inclusion in the booklet). There are, however, enough startling choices, like the heavily plucked and much-faster-than-Largo central movement of the "Winter" concerto (track 18), that the disc may be more to the tastes of the adventurous than otherwise; sample extensively and decide. The Four Seasons are balanced with other concertos that are quite rare, two of them world premieres. One and possibly more of these works were written for Vivaldi's orchestra of illegitimate girls at the Ospedale della Pietà, and indeed the entire disc is easy to imagine in performance by that presumably small group. The Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 372, "Per Signora Chiara," and Violin Concerto in B minor, RV 390, are late works that contribute anew to the understanding of how much Vivaldi contributed to the forerunners of Classicism. It may be a bit far out, but this is a fresh Vivaldi disc in every way.© TiVo
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Oh ! Pardon tu dormais... Le concert

Jane Birkin

French Music - Released September 16, 2022 | Universal Music Division Barclay

PALAIS DES SPORTS

Michel Berger

French Music - Released January 16, 1984 | Warner (France)

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Beyond the Forest

Ole Fredrik Norbye

Jazz - Released February 3, 2023 | AMP Music & Records

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Un air de fête

Corine

French Music - Released November 16, 2018 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Birkin / Gainsbourg : Le symphonique

Jane Birkin

French Music - Released March 24, 2017 | Universal Music Division Label Fontana Distribution Deal

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The Sound Within My Mind

Eskild Okkenhaug Sextet

Jazz - Released August 11, 2023 | AMP Music & Records

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Sebolavy

Mickey 3d

French Music - Released April 1, 2016 | Parlophone (France)

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