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Ici & là, en concert au Dôme de Paris (Live, 2022)

Alain Souchon

French Music - Released November 11, 2022 | Parlophone (France)

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Messiaen : L'œuvre pour orgue, Vol. 1

Louis Thiry

Classical - Released March 1, 1972 | La Dolce Volta

Booklet Distinctions Diapason d'or - 4F de Télérama - Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros - Choc de Classica
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Rameau : Les Indes Galantes

György Vashegyi

Full Operas - Released March 1, 2019 | Glossa

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With Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, György Vashegyi – along with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir – makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of French dramatic masterpieces from the Baroque, and in the company of a luxurious line-up of vocal soloists. The version of this “ballet heroïque” – supplied with an anti-colonial, anti-clerical manifesto by librettist Louis Fuzelier – selected by Vashegyi is the 1761 revision, a mere decade or so before the irruption onto the Parisian musical scene of the likes of Gluck and Grétry. Rameau’s score had undergone frequent adjustments and improvements since its première a quarter of a century earlier, and the performing edition for this recording, prepared for the Rameau Opera Omnia by Sylvie Bouissou (who also provides a booklet essay here), offers a vision of this work which is more theatrical, fluid and concise than hitherto. Just in themselves, the names of Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Katherine Watson, Véronique Gens, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Jean-Sébastien Bou and Thomas Dolié (sharing out the dozen solo roles) augur well for a glorious exploration of the prologue and three entrées ahead. Recently, they have also, in conjunction with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, been working on questions of tempo and how to perform Rameau’s sequences as the composer intended. Vashegyi brings a consummate understanding of Rameau’s galante style to the proceedings, following two previous Ramellian Glossa outings (Naïs and Les Fêtes de Polymnie). © Glossa
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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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Camille Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Classical - Released August 27, 2021 | Bru Zane

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That globetrotting composer Camille Saint-Saëns wrote La Princesse jaune in 1872, exemplifying the current craze for all things Japanese. Kornélis, played by the tenor Mathias Vidal, dreams only of the Land of the Rising Sun. Under the influence of a hallucinogenic potion, he becomes infatuated with Ming, a fantasy princess. His cousin Léna – the soprano Judith van Wanroij – despairs of this passion and does not dare to confess her own feelings to Kornélis, who eventually comes to his senses. The running time of this opera enables us to offer a coupling in the shape of a previously unrecorded version of Saint-Saëns’s six Mélodies persanes, thus extending the guiding thread of a yearning for exotic horizons in another direction. Leo Hussain conducts the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in both works. © Bru Zane
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Les Forces Contraires: La Mort et La Lumière (bonus track)

Terrenoire

French Music - Released February 4, 2022 | Universal Music Division Virgin Music

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Le Grand Orgue de Saint Eustache

Jean Guillou

Classical - Released January 1, 1989 | Dorian

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Offenbach : Maître Péronilla

Markus Poschner

Classical - Released February 14, 2020 | Bru Zane

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Faded into oblivion and absent from stages since 1879, the vivacious Maître Péronilla was lavishly put on at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in the Spring of 2019 to celebrate 200 years since the birth of Jacques Offenbach. This publication is the result of a collaboration between the Bru-Zane Foundation and Radio France for the recording. This piece of music was written in the last few years of Offenbach’s life, a Spanish language operetta that was part of the wave of Spanish fever that was crashing over France since Bizet and Chabrier and that would last until Debussy and Ravel. With its frenzied rhythm and signature Offenbach dialogue (aided by Nuitter and Ferrier, who hit the mark at every occasion), this work cheerfully borrows from a variety of styles while reprising a few of the composer’s older techniques but with a new sense of refinement that supersedes the previously light atmosphere. The rarity of this work is partly due to the convoluted nature of the libretto. The plotline revolves around an arranged marriage, presenting twenty different characters from three separate generations. The wonderful cast of singers has done a great job of reviving the opera buffa, with Antoinette Dennefeld playing young but tender scholar Frimouskino standing out. Eric Huchet and Véronique Gens are at the pinnacle of the joy and vivacity that seem to have taken hold of the whole cast of protagonists of this production directed by Markus Poschner who also conducts the National Orchestra of France and the Radio France choir. © François Hudry

La commune 1971

Jean Ferrat

French Music - Released March 6, 2020 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Les Forces Contraires: La Mort et La Lumière

Terrenoire

French Music - Released February 4, 2022 | Universal Music Division Virgin Music

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100 Chansons

Charles Trenet

French Music - Released April 27, 1999 | Parlophone (France)

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Bienheureux

Communauté de l'Emmanuel

Miscellaneous - Released March 3, 2020 | Il est vivant - Editions de l'Emmanuel

Anthologie

Charles Trenet

French Music - Released October 21, 1994 | Parlophone (France)

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With the exception of Maurice Chevalier, no French vocalist was more popular in the 1930s and '40s than Charles Trenet, and in addition to possessing a strong voice that was well suited to romantic and nostalgic material, Trenet was also a gifted songwriter whose best known tune, "La Mer," has been recorded by hundreds of artists around the world (it became a hit in America for Bobby Darin when it was translated as "Beyond the Sea"). Anthologie is a definitive overview of Trenet's career, an eight-disc box set that features 195 selections from his most celebrated era and includes his most popular songs.© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Bien que l'amour… Airs sérieux et à boire

William Christie

Classical - Released April 1, 2016 | harmonia mundi

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With this anthology of airs sérieux and airs à boire of the Grand Siècle, Les Arts Florissants launches a new series on harmonia mundi. We may listen to the tracks on this disc as contemporaries turned the pages of successful collections of songs alternating between invocations to Bacchus and invitations to love. Around William Christie at the harpsichord and his musicians, five singers offer multiple combinations of close-knit voices. From the intimacy of the salons to the liveliness of court banquets, these airs, models of refined skill, make light of the paradoxes of our hearts – for as an air by Lambert tells us: ‘Though Love creates all my grief, / I wish to love and to die loving.’ (Editor's Note) 
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Sérénité

Pepe Michel

Relaxation - Released August 1, 2018 | Michel Pépé

Mes jeunes années

Charles Trenet

French Music - Released February 12, 2021 | Parlophone (France)

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Thérapie par Ondes Delta 2021

Aide au sommeil académie

New Age - Released May 12, 2021 | Zen Tunes International

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Piano en prière, Vol. 4 (Le choix des internautes)

Dominique Fauchard

Classical - Released May 14, 2012 | Bayard Musique