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Schubert : "La Jeune Fille et la mort", "Rosamunde", quatuors

Hollywood String Quartet

Quartets - Released April 28, 2010 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Jours Etranges

Saez

French Music - Released January 1, 1999 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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French alternative rocker Damien Saez does the impossible on Jours Étranges: he creates a distinct and powerful voice out of the post-grunge rock sound. But unlike Creed and Bush and their ilk, Saez changes all the rules around and refuses to rehash ideas that were old to begin with. For example, the emotive singer and some noisy guitar are paired with a funky beat and dramatic keyboards, resulting in the grand and intense "Soleil 2000." The thickest sludge anthems are ended with minute-long piano codas. The songs are filled with beeps, noises, and Edge-like guitar parts without one hint of useless irony or angst-driven cynicism. Taking the sounds of the '90s and updating them for the next decade, Saez made an excellent album that deserves more credit. This should be a mandatory listen for every faux grunge band who littered the radio while Saez toiled in obscurity due to the notion that language is too big of a wall for American music fans to climb.© Bradley Torreano /TiVo

Bijoux & babioles

Juliette

French Music - Released February 4, 2008 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Produced by Jean-Philippe Allard, Bijoux & Babioles is the eighth studio album from critically acclaimed Parisian chanteuse Juliette. The 2008 follow-up to Mutatis Mutandis includes "Tyrolienne Haineuse," a song based on a text by French humorist Pierre Dac, a cover of Chabuca Granda's "Fina Estampa," and the single "A Voix Basse."© Jon O'Brien /TiVo
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Petite nana

AMALIA

French Music - Released October 27, 2022 | 1983 sous licence exclusive naïve

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La jeune fille et la mort

Roberto Forés Veses

Classical - Released November 19, 2021 | XXI Music

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Schubert Le Quatuor No. 14 "La jeune fille et la mort"

Alban Berg Quartett

Classical - Released January 1, 1985 | Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

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La jeune fille et la mort - Rosamunde

Quatuor Terpsycordes

Classical - Released October 16, 2008 | Ricercar

Historically oriented recordings of music from the early nineteenth century from outside the realm of keyboard music have generally been rare. But this release from the multinational Quatuor Terpsycordes shows some of the possibilities. The members of the quartet play copies of instruments from the middle of the century, deploying historical bows, and, most important, using catgut strings (which are not, by the way, made from cat guts). The results sacrifice purity and beauty of tone for dynamic range and dramatic impact, which emphasizes the Romantic qualities in Schubert's music. Hear the hushed conclusion of the slow movement of the String Quartet in D minor, D. 810 ("Death and the Maiden"), for an example of the group's approach. The difference between this sound and that of a modern quartet is not going to be as startling as, say, a Beethoven-era fortepiano would be for someone who has heard only modern grands. The booklet notes lay stress on the supposed songlike articulation that the historical bowing makes possible, emphasizing the role of the lied as a source in Schubert's mature style. But this effect is more evident in the dynamic extremes; you can imagine a lot of the melodies heatedly delivered by a singer. The studio sound heightens the dramatic effect of the music, and its reception is likely to be a matter of individual taste: it puts the listener in the middle of the music but has a strangely artificial, colorless quality. This is an unusual recording of two very frequently played pieces that more than achieves its goal of contributing something new to the chain of interpretation.© TiVo
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La Jeune fille et la mort...

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released March 2, 2009 | Naxos

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Jeune et con

AMALIA

French Music - Released June 17, 2022 | 1983 sous licence exclusive naïve

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Jeune & Con

ATYCE

French Music - Released September 17, 2021 | A T Y C E

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Oh, ma belle brunette

A Nocte Temporis - Reinoud Van Mechelen

Classical - Released May 27, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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The term "brunette" refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. The genre evolved from the air de cour, extremely popular in France since the beginning of the seventeenth century. The compositional process, however, remained very similar: to write a short, tender song, dealing with themes of love or nature, which could be sung alone or accompanied by a harmonic instrument. The late seventeenth century also saw the appearance of an instrument that soon became a favourite of composers and amateur musicians: the German flute, now called the traverso or Baroque flute. In this new programme, tenor Reinoud van Mechelen, flautist Anna Besson and A nocte temporis present an anthology of airs and brunettes ranging from the most touching song to the heartiest drinking song (air à boire). © Alpha Classics
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Offenbach : La Périchole (Live)

Marc Minkowski

Classical - Released June 14, 2019 | Bru Zane

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Recordings of Offenbach's 1868 operetta La Périchole, here performed in an 1873 revision, have been rather uncommon. True, it doesn't contain any of the big Offenbach hits, and its Peruvian setting, with a variety of Spanish dances and chinoiserie standing in for whatever music might have been heard in colonial Peru, seems increasingly preposterous as time goes on. However, verisimilitude has never been a requirement in operetta, and this story of the titular street singer (who was an actual historical individual) pursued by a sleazy colonial administrator hits a lot of the bases. Anglophone listeners will note that Arthur Sullivan surely knew this music inside and out, and replicated the combination of limpid songs for the heroine and quite a few sharp narrative choruses. This production, recorded live in 2018 at the Festival Radio France Occitanie in Montpellier, is nothing fancy, but that is its charm. La Périchole is nicely sung by a mezzo-soprano with the delightful name of Aude Extrémo, who resists the temptation to ham it up (sample her drunk scene, "Ah, quel diner je viens de faire") and inhabits the role well. The large cast is consistent, and conductor Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, far from their Baroque origins, keep things moving in a lively way. One gets the sense that Offenbach would have been fully satisfied, and the recording is a must for any operetta fan.© TiVo
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A Quoi ça Rime ?

TSR Crew

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released October 22, 2007 | Chambre Froide

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Le Concert royal de la Nuit

Ensemble Correspondances

Classical - Released September 3, 2015 | harmonia mundi

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Un concert pour Madame de Sévigné

Marc HantaÏ

Classical - Released June 7, 2010 | Flora

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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
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Mozart: Concerto No. 9, "Jeune Homme" et Concertos Nos. 12 & 14

Orchestre d'Auvergne

Classical - Released September 23, 2010 | Zig-Zag Territoires

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C'est mon homme

Romain Trouillet

Film Soundtracks - Released April 5, 2023 | Milan

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L'afro carnaval des animaux

florent briqué

Children - Released February 2, 2023 | Le label dans la forêt

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