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Françoise Hardy (Tous les garçons et les filles)

Françoise Hardy

French Music - Released October 28, 2022 | Vogue

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Lully: Acis et Galatée

Les Talens Lyriques

Opera - Released October 14, 2022 | Aparté

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Composed on 1686 as part of the festivities organised by the Duc de Vendôme in honour of the Grand Dauphin, during the latter’s visit to his estate at the Château d’Anet in September of that year, Acis et Galatée is Lully’s last complete opera. His faithful librettist Quinault having retired from writing for the stage, he collaborated this time with the poet Campistron on a work that tells the story of the love between the sea-nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis – a love threatened by the violence of the jealous cyclops Polyphemus. This opera, an undoubted dramatic success, gives the orchestra an important part, expressively evoking, for example, the giant’s cries of anger, the terror of the chorus, and the lovers’ hasty flight in Act III. It includes some magnificent pieces, including the final Passacaille, as well as inventive treasures, such as duet for hautes-contre (high tenors) “Ah! je succombe au tourment qui m'accable”, or the burlesque march that accompanies the entry of Polyphemus and his fellow cyclopes, conveying their uncouthness. But the loveliest pieces in the score are for Galatea: “Enfin, j’ai dissipé la crainte”, for instance, or “Que ne puis-je expirer après ce coup funeste?”. Lully died in March 1687, a few months after the première, leaving Achille et Polyxène unfinished. © Aparté
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Bizet: Djamileh

Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Opera - Released January 1, 2016 | Orfeo

Amoureuse

Véronique Sanson

French Music - Released March 20, 1972 | Parlophone (France)

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Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

French Music - Released January 1, 1984 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Cherubini, L.: Medee [Opera]

Patrick Fournillier

Classical - Released January 1, 2008 | Nuova Era Internazionale

Cherubini's Médée, with a French libretto, received its premiere in Paris in 1797. Although the subject is grimly tragic, it was classified, like Carmen, as an opéra comique because it contained spoken dialogue. The opera was not hugely successful and had a spotty performance history until it became a vehicle for Maria Callas in the 1950s and early '60s, in an Italian version -- Medea -- with a nineteenth century setting of the dialogue as recitative. That version has largely held the stage since, and this recording is the first using the original French version with spoken dialogue. The recording is taken from a live performance at the 1995 Festival of Valle d'Itria-Martina Franca, which has made something of a specialty of performing French versions of operas that are best known in other languages. The recording suffers from some of the vagaries of live performance, including loud page turning in the orchestra, stage noise, and the prompter's whispering. The quality and balance of the sound is otherwise always at least acceptable and often good. The soloists, for the most part, make this a competitive version of the opera, and certainly one that should interest anyone who wants to hear it as the composer wrote it. Jano Tamar is a fiercely dramatic Médée, with the firepower to make her a really frightening character. She is vocally more than up to the challenges of the role, both in its extreme range and coloratura demands, and she maintains a pure tone while tearing into it with a fury that sounds like an explosive force of nature. As Jason, Luca Lombardo is generally solid, but he is not in Tamar's league vocally or in dramatic force, and their confrontations are somewhat lopsided (which, actually, is theatrically appropriate). He fares best in ensembles; in his solo "Eloigné pour jamais," he sounds pinched and nasally. Patrizia Ciofi sings with radiant tone, expressiveness, and impeccable technique in the demanding role of Dircé, and Jean-Philippe Courtis is a forceful, resonant Créon. Patrick Fournillier leads the Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia and Coro da Camera Sluk di Bratislava in a refined and incisive reading of the score. © TiVo

Tout simplement

Florent Pagny

French Music - Released March 30, 2018 | Universal Music Division Capitol Music France

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Les 3 Mousquetaires

Les 3 mousquetaires

French Music - Released September 30, 2016 | Columbia

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BOF Anna

Serge Gainsbourg

French Music - Released January 1, 1967 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

1940 - 1942

Charles Trenet

French Music - Released October 12, 2017 | Parlophone (France)

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Francis Lai & Claude Lelouch: L'Intégrale

Francis Lai

Film Soundtracks - Released January 4, 2011 | Playtime

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Le changement c'est doucement

Les Goguettes (en trio mais à quatre)

French Music - Released April 21, 2017 | Hé Ouais Mec

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Un cœur comme le mien

Axelle Red

Pop - Released April 4, 2011 | naïve

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After her first English-language album, Sisters & Empathy, failed to achieve the success of her previous native-tongued efforts, Belgian singer/songwriter Axelle Red returns to her roots with the entirely French-sung blues-influenced eighth studio album, Un Coeur Comme le Mien. Recorded in a former church outside Woodstock, New York, her first release through Naïve Records features two collaborations with Robbie Williams' ex-songwriting partner Guy Chambers, "Dans les Bras des Hommes" and the lead single, "La Claque." © Jon O'Brien /TiVo
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Lully: Acis et Galatée, LWV 73

Jean-François Lombard

Opera - Released October 13, 2023 | Naxos

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A L'Olympia

Maurane

Pop - Released January 1, 1999 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Y'en a assez pour tout le monde !

Les Enfantastiques

Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released October 12, 2009 | Bizou Muzic

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Jacques Offenbach : La Vie parisienne (5 septembre 1954)

Jules Gresssier

Classical - Released April 15, 2014 | Ina, musique(s)

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Visages d'Orphée

Thibaut Roussel

Classical - Released February 10, 2022 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Lambert: Airs de cour

Les Arts Florissants

Classical - Released January 1, 1984 | harmonia mundi

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Cœur de pierre

Gallimard Jeunesse

Miscellaneous - Released November 17, 2022 | Gallimard Jeunesse