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L'album de sa vie

Daniel Balavoine

French Music - Released January 8, 2021 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Au Palais des Sports

Daniel Balavoine

French Music - Released December 1, 1984 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Asgard

Thierry Maillard

Contemporary Jazz - Released September 15, 2023 | Paradis Improvisé

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Au-Delà Du Délire

Ange

Rock - Released January 1, 1974 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

With two studio recordings under their belt (the 1972 Caricatures and the 1973 Le Cimetière des Arlequins), Ange struck artistic gold with Au-Delà du Délire. All the elements came together this time, producing France's best symphonic progressive rock album of the 1970s. Christian Decamps' medieval imagery (echoed in the music by occasional minstrel-type folk song structures) is assisted this time around by Biblical themes, something noticeable in the song titles. His voice is not the only center of attention anymore, as instrumental passages take more room and arrangements become more intricate. "Exode" actually takes off when the verse is over and the guitar and Mellotron start working on an instrumental crescendo. The pastoral "Ballade Pour Une Orgie" ("Ballad for an Orgy") is the lightest track, along with the almost pop "Fils de Lumière" ("Son of Light"). The other tracks are darker and very substantial. The soft piano and violin intro of the opener "Godevin le Vilain" ("Godevin the Villain") leads into a full-blown bombastic song. "Les Longues Nuits d'Isaac" ("Isaac's Long Nights") is heavy on guitars and is the rockiest number Ange played in these first years of existence. "Si J'Étais le Messie" ("If I Were the Messiah") is a showcase for Christian Decamps' theatrical talents, his soliloquy being backed by minimal musical flooring. Au-Delà du Délire also contains two theatrical pieces that would become classic material: "La Bataille du Sucre," the story of a time when there was no sugar left on Earth, a piece complete with characters played by each member of the band, and "Au-Delà du Délire" which culminates in a anthemic instrumental section with one of Jean-Michel Brézovar's best guitar solos. On this album, Ange developed a heavy, dark, and bombastic sound (thanks to the Mellotron) they will partly abandon afterwards, as the transitional album Émile Jacotay exemplifies. But Au-Delà du Délire had such an impact on the French market that the label Philips reissued it on CD in a budget-price collection along with titles by songwriters like Jacques Brel, Georges Moustaki, and Serge Reggiani.© François Couture /TiVo
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Goldorak XperienZ

Film Soundtracks - Released April 14, 2023 | PPM

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Astérix & Obélix : L'Empire du Milieu (Bande originale du film)

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French Music - Released February 1, 2023 | Trésor Films

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Debussy: La mer & Orchestral Works (Studio Masters Edition )

Sir Simon Rattle

Classical - Released August 1, 2005 | Warner Classics

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Je tourne en rond

Jul

Miscellaneous - Released June 8, 2015 | Liga One Industry

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Tout au Tour

Tryo

French Music - Released November 11, 2022 | Tryo

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Francais

Michel Sardou

French Music - Released September 12, 2000 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Sainte-Hélène: La légende napoléonienne

Sabine Devieilhe

Classical - Released April 23, 2021 | Muso

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The anniversaries keep coming: first it was Beethoven, now it’s the turn of Napoleon Bonaparte, who died two centuries ago, on 5 May 1821. In France, famously, "everything ends in song". Taking inspiration from this adage, Arnaud Marzorati and his Lunaisiens, a vocal ensemble specialising in French historical and popular songs, are relating a crucial chapter of history through the medium of song.These historical songs often glorified the epic story of Napoleon, with titles like La Machine infernale or Les Français au Général Bonaparte serving as musical propaganda. Other songs criticised the Empire, with royalist refrains like Les Mérites de Bonaparte or La Campagne de Russie.The Lunaisiens are accompanied here by historical instruments played by the Les Cuivres Romantiques ensemble with trumpets, horns and buccins from the period as well as the barrel organ. Besides the more or less political songs, this album presents the popular songs of the streets and the salons. There are some romances (a typically French genre), sung here by Sabine Devieilhe with accompaniment on the piano from Daniel Isoir. There is a wealth of popular music from this period which addresses the legacy of a complex figure who aroused and bloodied Europe. © François Hudry / Qobuz
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Debussy: La boîte à joujoux, 6 Épigraphes antiques & Sarabande (Orch. Caplet, Ansermet & Ravel)

Armin Jordan

Classical - Released February 12, 2021 | Warner Classics

Armin Jordan, who passed away in 2006, was an atypical conductor and an extraordinary personality. With a Swiss-German father and a Genevan mother, he straddled two cultures and two languages, bringing clarity to the music of Wagner, which he adored, and endowing French music with mystery and sometimes even introspection. He was a jovial, generous, unpredictable man, adored by orchestral musicians, which is quite rare for a conductor, because he was never aloof or self-satisfied.Michel Garcin, the director of Erato Records, adored this singular man whom he trusted to such an extent that he commissioned him to record a voluminous discography, the quality of which is still hailed fifteen years after the Swiss conductor's death. He has recorded with several orchestras, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande of course, of which he was musical director from 1985 to 1997, but also with the two orchestras of Radio France, that of Monte Carlo and, as here, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, which is also the orchestra of the Basel Opera, of which Jordan was the adored director.Curiously, it is a German orchestra that pays indirect tribute to Ernest Ansermet, whose 1932 orchestration of Debussy's work Jordan interprets here with great finesse. Ansermet had met Debussy on several occasions and knew that the composer intended Epigraphes antiques for the orchestra. But his death prevented him from carrying this project through to the end. The tribute continues with a recording of La Boîte à joujoux, the children's ballet that Ansermet recorded and whose rehearsal, recorded without his knowledge, remains a poetic monument to his work. Ansermet's influence was considerable, particularly for the two great later figures of Swiss conducting, Charles Dutoit and Armin Jordan, who both worked with him. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Post-Partum

Les Innocents

French Music - Released January 1, 1995 | Because Music

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Casse-Noisette

Valérie Karsenti

Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released October 6, 2015 | Didier Jeunesse

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Hamlet, The Tempest...

Antal Doráti

Symphonic Music - Released December 23, 2015 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Désaxée

Kamas

French Music - Released March 29, 2024 | Microcultures

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Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Images & La Boîte à joujoux

Orchestre du Theatre National De L'Opera De Paris

Symphonies - Released December 1, 2012 | Praga Digitals

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Madrigal Masterpieces

Alfred Deller

Classical - Released July 17, 1992 | Omega Vanguard

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Rabelais: Fay ce que vouldras - Plaisirs de gorge et joyeux instruments

Les Sacqueboutiers

Classical - Released July 10, 2012 | Flora

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The title of this album, Fay ce que vouldras (Do what thou willst), is taken from the 1532 novel La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel by François Rabelais, and the recording features readings from the book interspersed with vocal and instrumental music of the period by composers like Josquin Desprez, Claude Lejeune, Clément Janequin, Orlande de Lassus, and Claudin de Sermisy. This is an album that should be highly entertaining for fans of these composers and anyone who enjoys music that's quirky or sometimes just plain strange. The spoken texts, in Middle French, are delivered with such gusto and panache by Vincent Bouchot that they should engage even listeners who don't understand a word of what is being said. (The CD comes with a gorgeous, lavishly produced book in French that includes no translations.) The performances by the wind ensemble Les Sacqueboutiers and the male vocal group Ensemble Clément Janequin are ebullient and polished. This is rowdy secular music and the performers sound like they are having the time of their lives with its high spirits and occasional loopiness. The music's oddness peaks in the second part of Janequin's chanson, La chasse, in its depiction of a pack of dogs, barking, howling, and yelping. The music itself is riotously unconventional -- Janequin obviously had a wicked sense of humor -- and the singers' very free rendering of the hounds' gnof, gnof, tronc, tronc, plif, plof is hilarious. The sound is immaculate and detailed. © TiVo
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Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released December 7, 2018 | Diggers Factory

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