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Les Autres c’est nous

Bigflo & Oli

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 23, 2022 | Universal Music Division One Records

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Mademoiselle Duval: Les Génies ou les Caractères de l'Amour

Camille Delaforge

Classical - Released February 9, 2024 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Noé Preszow

French Music - Released February 16, 2024 | tôt Ou tard

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Nuits

Véronique Gens

Classical - Released April 3, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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As the symbiosis between the art of the poet and that of the composer, the French mélodie became the jewel of the salons of the ‘Belle Époque’. By placing a string quartet and a piano around the singer, Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle, Lekeu’s Nocturne and Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson oscillate between chamber musical intimacy and orchestral ambition. Alongside these famous pioneering pieces, this programme devised by the Palazzetto Bru Zane champions a return to the art of transcription, so popular in the nineteenth century, with the aim of expanding the repertory for voice, strings and piano in order to unearth some forgotten treasures. Hence Hahn, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, La Tombelle, Ropartz, Louiguy and Messager all appear in a programme whose guiding thread is the emotions of nocturnal abandonment: the charms of twilight, the trajectory of dreams, the terror of nightmare or the exhilaration of festive occasions. Alexandre Dratwicki has made these arrangements in the style of the nineteenth century. Appropriately enough, the programme ends with La Vie en rose, for this music offers a kaleidoscope of all the colours of human feeling. The texture of solo strings and piano sets Véronique Gens’s incomparable storytelling artistry in a new ligh. © Alpha Classics
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Sans attendre

Céline Dion

French Music - Released November 2, 2012 | Columbia

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For her first album in five years, Céline Dion returns to her native French, cutting a moody collection called Sans Attendre. Perhaps it is the relatively diminished commercial expectations of a French-only album but there's an appealing small-scale aspect to Sans Attendre; certainly it is melodramatic but it is not garishly bombastic. The production is relatively restrained and, in turn, it gives plenty of space for Dion to grandstand on these tales of heartbreak, aging, and death. These aren't songs of love; they're songs of loss, and while there is certainly an affectation to Dion's performance, there's also genuine pathos and the small scale of Sans Attendre makes for one of her better albums of recent memory.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo

Les autres c’est nous

Bigflo & Oli

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 23, 2022 | Universal Music Division One Records

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Chanson d'Amour

Sabine Devieilhe

Classical - Released September 11, 2020 | Warner Classics

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Sabine Devieilhe and Alexandre Tharaud bring their customary clarity, finesse and insight to the works of four composers who defined the path of French art song or "mélodie" from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. In an imaginatively balanced recital, the two French luminaries perform Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. Their programme, built around Ravel's Cinq Chansons populaires grecques and Debussy's Verlaine setting Ariettes oubliées, takes up the themes of love, war and death and offers both favourite songs like Fauré's Après un rêve and some rarer treasures. © Erato
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Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

Saskia Giorgini

Solo Piano - Released December 11, 2021 | PentaTone

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Introspective music of ravishing beauty. After two song albums together with Ian Bostridge, pianist Saskia Giorgini presents Franz Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. Liszt is often seen as a showman, but much of his music reveals his introspective, searching nature. This is demonstrated above all in Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, one of his most ambitious, contemplative and enigmatic compositions, inspired by Lamartine’s eponymous poetry, Liszt’s Roman Catholic faith as well as the 1848-1849 revolutions. To Giorgini, “this music is deeply humane and sincere, tender, but also full of the most sorrowful, violent, painful moments that Liszt ever put into music”. Its ten movements constitute a quest for the deeper meaning of human existence, clothed in music of ravishing beauty. Saskia Giorgini is one of the most promising pianists of her generation, who has won several competitions and is hailed for her technical command and the beauty and poetry of her sound. © Pentatone
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Mes Débuts

Françoise Hardy

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

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Liszt: Joies de l'âme

Claire-Marie Le Guay

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Mirare

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Debussy & Murail: Révolutions

François-Frédéric Guy

Classical - Released February 18, 2022 | La Dolce Volta

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"To link Debussy with the compositions of Tristan Murail is to place musical evolution in a historical logic of sonic upheavals", says the pianist François-Frédéric Guy. Fascinated by idioms that revolutionise music, today he takes us on a journey between two immensely creative figures. At a distance of more than a century, Claude Debussy and Tristan Murail reveal the same concern for precision in writing and preservation of freedom of thought. The works assembled in this album metamorphose colours and spaces: they offer unprecedented poetic imagination, constantly expanding dreamlike worlds. The impression that remains on the listener's memory is above all one of astonishing and intense emotion. © La Dolce Volta
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Armin Jordan conducts Debussy, Roussel & Chausson (Live)

Felicity Lott

Classical - Released September 4, 2020 | audite Musikproduktion

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The prestigious Lucerne Festival, which has seen, and still today showcases, the very best conductors, soloists and orchestras on the planet, continues to publish its exceptional archives. This new offering displays the sumptuous return of Armin Jordan who led the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande between 1985 and 1997 and gave a second “golden age” to the Genovese ensemble after the fruitful years of Ansermet (1918-1967).With his Germanic and Latin cultural heritage, Armin Jordan took pleasure in gracing works with a generous and tormented lyricism. His only two appearances at the podium of the ancient Kunsthaus at the festival of his birth town are brought together here with his superb recordings created in 1988 and 1994. Here we find his stunning sense of colour and unique mix of fluidity, transparence and vigour which he made his own.After Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun with its hazy poeticism, we discover the Second Suite of Bacchus and Arriadne by Albert Roussel led by a beating drum with a touring OSR at the top of its game. The strength of this interpretation perfectly fills a gap as Jordan had never recorded this flamboyant work in studio. Such is not the case with Poème de l’amour et de la mer which was recorded in Monte-Carlo for Erato with Jessye Norman.In this 1994 Lucerne concert, he directed his dear companion Felicity Lott. While the voice of this English cantata singer doesn’t have the amber-scented and sensual colour of her American colleague, she nevertheless possesses a timbre of perfect harmony with the style and colour of the Chausson conductor. Finally, one can admire Ansermet’s beautiful orchestration recorded in 1932 with Claude Debussy’s Six Épigraphes Antiques where he displayed the most intricate of details as much as Jordan perfectly translates its flourishes and subtleties. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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37ème Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron

Iddo Bar-Shaï

Classical - Released July 14, 2017 | Mirare

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Meyerbeer: Le prophète

Aalto Theatre Opera Chorus

Opera - Released March 2, 2018 | Oehms Classics

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No-one could really say that Meyerbeer's Le Prophète boasts an ample discography: two recordings with Marilyn Horne, one in 1970 alongside Gedda, the other in 1976 with a different distributor — both directed by Harry Lewis, and both available on Qobuz of course — but apart from that, and a few isolated airs that can be dug up here or there, it is a total desert. What a tragedy! So let's raise a hearty cheer for this new recording from Giuliano Carella, who leads the Essen Philharmonic. And regardless of the oblivion that the score fell into in the late 19th century, it was an unlikely international hit in the decades after its first outing in 1849, gracing all the biggest stages of Europe (600 performances in Paris, 300 in Berlin, 180 in Vienna, 150 in London, etc.), North America, South America, Oceania, Russia... It was performed at state occasions; a thousand composers took the themes as the basis for their own fantasias, variations, paraphrases and whatever took their fancy. And then Wagner and Verdi flooded the market: and even if both bore a heavy debt to Meyerbeer, the work was eclipsed and never really resurfaced. And yet: what orchestral richness, what dramatic and lyrical imagination! For the coronation scene, the composer brought eighteen saxhorns onto the stage; endless timbales, percussion in every corner, and scene after scene, Meyerbeer invents shed loads of truly Berliozian orchestral effects: a deluge of special sound effects worthy of a Hollywood studio. Note also that the recording was made at a public concert. © SM/Qobuz
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C'est pas des LOL

Jul

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released December 6, 2019 | D'Or et de Platine

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Horowitz plays Liszt

Vladimir Horowitz

Chamber Music - Released March 25, 2011 | Sony Classical

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Bercy 98

Michel Sardou

French Music - Released January 1, 1998 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

French singer Michel Sardou delivers a fine two-CD set of music on Bercy 98, the latest edition in his concert series. Focusing on his more accessible, poppy songs, he comes off like an adult contemporary star with a romantic French twist. Although the albums capture a good amount of material, the lack of variety seems like it could have changed so it would include some different material. The crowd often gets annoying, applauding so often it almost sounds like a continuous loop of silence-then-applause applied after the fact. The extra CD comes with one song, a Phil Collins-esque bore that matters very little to the entire package. Overall, this is a good album that could have been better, but there are other volumes in the Bercy series that are more essential anyway.© Bradley Torreano /TiVo
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Un café et l'addition

Michel Fugain

French Music - Released January 2, 1989 | Wagram Music

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Henri a 100 ans (l'album hommage à Henri Salvador)

Henri a 100 ans

French Music - Released October 13, 2017 | SMART

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Imbécile

Olivier Libaux

Pop - Released October 2, 2007 | Discograph