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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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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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Double d'Or : Carlos

Carlos

French Music - Released December 1, 2014 | Johnny Williams Son

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Francis Lai & Claude Lelouch: L'Intégrale

Francis Lai

Film Soundtracks - Released January 4, 2011 | Playtime

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Comptines et chansons pour l'école

Le Choeur des Enfants

Children - Released September 8, 2014 | Didier Jeunesse

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Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots

Dame Joan Sutherland

Classical - Released January 1, 1970 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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L'aventure c'est l'aventure (Bande originale du film)

Francis Lai

Film Soundtracks - Released May 8, 1972 | Playtime

Olympia 1991

Gilbert Bécaud

French Music - Released December 2, 1991 | Parlophone (France)

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Francis Lai Story (Bandes originales des films)

Francis Lai

Film Soundtracks - Released December 21, 2020 | Playtime

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Ravel: L'heure espagnole, M. 52 & Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, M. 84

Orchestre National De Lyon

Opera - Released February 5, 2016 | Naxos

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Leonard Slatkin is an exceptionally versatile conductor, but it is perhaps in French repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries that he feels most comfortable. The singers in Ravel's exquisitely formed little comic opera L'Heure espagnole, complete with cheating lovers hidden inside grandfather's clocks carried up and down stairs, are all entirely appropriate and admirably clear, but it is really Slatkin who's the star here, right from the "Introduction" that's so artfully linked to what follows. Ravel here cultivates a kind of updated accompanied recitative, well matched to his stated goal of reviving the old tradition of Italian opera buffa. The dialogue seems straightforward, but it is subtly and considerably heightened by the music in ways that may be clear to the listener only in retrospect. Sample the sly "Salut à la belle Horlogère!" (track eight) for a taste of how Slatkin holds the entire scene, orchestra and singing of mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet, in the palm of his hand, and of the light sexiness in the opera embodied in the afternoon-delight-seeking Concepción. A bonus is the set of three Don Quichotte à Dulcinée songs, the last work Ravel completed. Highly recommended and absolutely delightful. © TiVo
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Même pas sommeil

CharlElie Couture

French Music - Released January 25, 2019 | Rue bleue

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La balade du poète

Serge Lama

French Music - Released November 30, 2012 | Warner (France)

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Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2, Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33 & Others

Hélène Grimaud

Classical - Released January 1, 1986 | Denon

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Les Percussions de Treffort - 50 Oeuvres, 50 Compositeurs #2

Alain Goudard

Classical - Released December 20, 2021 | EMA Vinci L&C

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Crèvecœur (2019 remastered)

Daniel Darc

French Music - Released March 8, 2004 | Water Music

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La course folle

Tim Dup

French Music - Released June 11, 2021 | Columbia

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Gilbert Becaud (1964-1966) [2011 Remastered] [Deluxe version]

Gilbert Bécaud

French Music - Released October 6, 2011 | Parlophone (France)

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1963 - 1965 : Les 45 tours

Gilbert Bécaud

French Music - Released March 19, 2021 | Parlophone (France)

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Cabrel classique

Cie RichenSon

French Music - Released June 30, 2015 | Hv.Com