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Ravel: L'Heure espagnole - Bolero

François-Xavier Roth

Opera - Released June 16, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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The main attraction of the orchestra Les Siècles and its conductor François-Xavier Roth is its use of period instruments from around 1900, the time period in which the group specializes. One could hardly ask for a better demonstration record (as audiophiles used to call them) than this take on Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole, an edgy, rather tawdry but undeniably funny little opera about the extramarital escapades of a clockmaker's wife, complete with excellent satirical characterizations of her two lovers. The opera receives a pitch-perfect performance here from a quintet of younger singers, who deliver the kind of dry, close-to-spoken singing Ravel wanted. Even better, though, is the orchestral sound, where the opera's large contingent of winds, brass, and percussion displays the sound of Les Siècles at its most vivid. The score calls for trios of oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, and these all have a tangier sound than modern instruments provide. The program ends with Boléro, and this, too, stands out from among the hundreds or thousands of other recordings on the market. Ravel had very fixed ideas about how he wanted the work to sound, and he wrangled with Arturo Toscanini, who conducted the premiere in New York, about it: it should be played absolutely straight, with no variation in tempo and little expression. Notwithstanding the connotations that became attached to the work later on, he viewed it as an abstract work, and that is exactly what it becomes in Roth's bracing reading. Listeners who have been wanting to sample Roth's work with this orchestra are enthusiastically encouraged to try this release, which made classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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15 ans d'émotion en 21 chansons

Jean Lapointe

Pop - Released January 1, 1991 | Éditorial Avenue

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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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Vegedream

Pop - Released July 12, 2019 | Universal Music Division Island Def Jam

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Singulier 81 - 89

Jean-Jacques Goldman

French Music - Released July 23, 1996 | Columbia

Jean-Jacques Goldman's career as a French hitmaker is adequately detailed in this two-disc set, containing all of his singles -- both A-and-B sides -- as well as EP and live bonus cuts.© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Quand la musique est bonne

Jean-Jacques Goldman

French Music - Released September 27, 1982 | Columbia

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Tournée 98 - En passant

Jean-Jacques Goldman

French Music - Released June 14, 1999 | Columbia

Wish: Asha et la bonne étoile

Julia Michaels

Film Soundtracks - Released November 17, 2023 | Walt Disney Records

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Pour Me Comprendre

Michel Berger

French Music - Released July 5, 2002 | Warner (France)

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Released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of his tragic death, Pour Me Comprendre is a two-CD, 40-track compilation celebrating the career of Michel Berger, one of the most popular French singer/songwriters of the '70s and '80s. Alongside his number one single "Mademoiselle Chang," it includes Top Ten hits "La Groupie du Pianiste" and "Voyou" and several duets with France Gall ("Ça Balance Pas Mal a Paris," "Les Elans du Coeur").© Jon O'Brien /TiVo

En Tête-A-Tête

M

French Music - Released November 4, 2005 | Parlophone (France)

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-M- (theatrical, idiosyncratic French Pop artist Mathieu Chédid) released this double-disc, 23-track live album (his third) in 2005. Recorded between February 2004 and June 2005, En Tête à Tête (which is also available on DVD) includes many of Chédid's best-loved tracks.© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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60 Chansons

Il Etait Une Fois

Pop - Released May 18, 2007 | Parlophone (France)

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Traces

Jean-Jacques Goldman

French Music - Released March 13, 1989 | Epic

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Verdi: Don Carlos

Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano

Classical - Released January 1, 2013 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Sous inspi

Jacques

Ambient - Released May 7, 2018 | Recherche & Développement - R&D

Il était une fois...

Il Etait Une Fois

Pop - Released March 28, 2012 | Parlophone (France)

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Le super grand petit concert

M

French Music - Released November 20, 2020 | Wagram Music - 3ème Bureau

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His 80th Birthday

Maurice Chevalier

Pop - Released December 7, 2018 | Epic - Legacy

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Maurice Chevalier's last studio album À 80 berges, released in 1967 on CBS, focuses on his hits, including medleys in English and French. The following year, in October 1968, Maurice Chevalier bid farewell to the stage at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, during twenty sold-out evenings entitled "80 berges". He declared at the end of the last concert: "I never got, anywhere, what the most dazzling Paris that filled the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées awarded me that evening". Maurice Chevalier lacked neither experience nor talent — few artists have had as much as he did. An international singing star during his lifetime and a recognised actor in Hollywood, always remained at the height of his popularity, he did not experience fits and starts during his career and continues, even today, to be one of the best known French singers in the world. His unique style and so recognizable voice make him a major cultural heritage artist. (Qobuz / GG) 
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Live 98

Pascal Obispo

French Music - Released May 4, 1998 | Po Productions

L' Essentiel

Il Etait Une Fois

Pop - Released February 28, 2003 | Parlophone (France)

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Lully: Acis et Galatée, LWV 73

Jean-François Lombard

Opera - Released October 13, 2023 | Naxos

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