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Marchand de sable

Vegedream

Pop - Released June 1, 2018 | Universal Music Division Island Def Jam

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Marchand de sable 2

Vegedream

Pop - Released November 30, 2018 | Universal Music Division Island Def Jam

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Films d'horreur - La bande originale du cinéma des années 80 et 90

Musique De Film

Film Soundtracks - Released August 29, 2014 | City Sounds Music

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Henri Salvador : Une chanson douce

Henri Salvador

French Music - Released February 12, 2009 | Le Chant du Monde

Le Forestier chante Brassens Cahier 1 - Vol 4

Maxime Le Forestier

Pop - Released January 1, 2005 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Symphonie n°1

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Classical - Released November 17, 2009 | Naxos

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Close to heaven

Orchestre National de Jazz - Franck Tortiller

Jazz - Released January 26, 2006 | Le Chant du Monde

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Ravel : Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 (Daphnis et Chloé)

Spirito

Classical - Released January 13, 2017 | Naxos

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The fourth installment in Leonard Slatkin's series on Naxos of the orchestral works of Maurice Ravel features the complete 1912 ballet Daphnis et Chloé and the tone poem Une barque sur l'océan in spectacular performances by the Orchestre National de Lyon. Daphnis et Chloé is widely regarded as Ravel's masterpiece, and the shimmering orchestration and lush harmonies that epitomize impressionism are lovingly rendered by Slatkin and the French orchestra. While Daphnis et Chloé is most often presented as two suites for orchestra, this 2015 performance also includes the atmospheric choral parts, sung by Spirito, a body consisting of the Choruses and Soloists of Lyon and the Britten Chorus. The sumptuous scoring and seductive melodies that made Daphnis et Chloé one of Ravel's most beloved works are also at play in Une barque sur l'océan, Ravel's dazzling orchestral version of the third piece in his piano suite, Miroirs. The depiction of a small boat riding the surging waves is brilliantly captured, and the glistening timbres of woodwinds, harp, and strings convey the sea spray quite effectively. Naxos provides remarkably clear and deep sound, so the finer points of Ravel's scores are easily heard. © TiVo
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Desmarest: Vénus & Adonis

Les Talens Lyriques

Classical - Released March 24, 2014 | Ambroisie - naïve

Marchand de sable Part.6 (Gestuelle)

Vegedream

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released July 23, 2020 | Universal Music Division Island Def Jam

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Marchand de sable Part.6 (Gestuelle)

Vegedream

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released July 23, 2020 | Universal Music Division Island Def Jam

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Berceuses pour Dormir

Les Enfants de Nono

Children - Released July 10, 2019 | Siesta Tunes

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Le Burn-out du Marchand de Sable

Various Artists

Children - Released October 29, 2020 | Various Artists

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Consolations

Saskia Giorgini

Solo Piano - Released June 9, 2023 | PentaTone

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Pianist Saskia Giorgini found both critical and commercial success with her 2022 recording of Liszt's Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, and this 2023 release, which immediately climbed onto classical best-seller charts, follows directly on the earlier album, with the same Bösendorfer piano and the same recording location, the Lisztzentrum in Raiding, Austria. Listeners will not be disappointed, for Consolations has all the virtues of her first Liszt album and adds a few more. The wonderfully controlled lyricism of the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses recurs in the heavily programmatic title work, where Giorgini's playing hints at the presence of all kinds of stories. She plainly excels in the religious, late Liszt, and there are two wonderful examples here, the Deux Legends, portraits of St. Francis of Assisi praying to the birds, and of St. François de Paule. These are difficult works that combine mysticism with Lisztian virtuosity; annotator Mark Berry is right to stress that Liszt did not fully renounce the virtuosity in his later years, but that is not all. Giorgini is just as good in the flashy Three Caprices-Valses and the reflective Liebesträume, the best-known music on the album. In the Valse-Impromptu, she has an uncanny way of suggesting the feeling of spontaneity that seems to have marked Liszt's own playing. Will Giorgini go on with Liszt? She certainly has the technical and emotional wherewithal to do so and to take on more famous works than these.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Corelli & Quentin: Flute Sonatas

Anna Besson

Classical - Released January 26, 2024 | Alpha Classics

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The music on this album comes from the first generation of the flute's existence as a solo instrument. Its status grew rapidly, and by the late 1730s, a Paris publisher saw money in issuing six violin-and-keyboard sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli in flute arrangements. These are rendered here by Baroque flutist Anna Besson and a pair of other crack young historically oriented players, and they are quite energetic, retaining the virtuosity of the original violin works. The major news here, though, is the group of pieces by French composer Jean-Baptiste Quentin (ca. 1690-ca. 1742), a younger follower of Corelli. These have never been recorded before, and they are fascinating. Quentin, like Corelli, was a violinist, and Quentin probably followed Corelli's French publisher in writing violin music that would work on the flute as well. Certainly, the figuration and the melodic content owe something to Corelli, and the movements have Italianate titles, mostly tempo indications, rather than following French practice. Yet there is something quite French about them, coming from the ornamentation and from the peculiar graceful sentimentality in the melodies. It is a really unusual mix, and the album is worth one's money or time for these alone, in addition to the fact that it exposes some excellent young Baroque players in lively, sparkling performances.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Freeze Corleone

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released September 11, 2023 | MMS CORP

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Reflet

Sandrine Piau

Classical - Released January 12, 2024 | Alpha Classics

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In a world of "singles," pursued even by classical music labels nowadays, here is a whole album that makes up a single, sublime musical utterance. Reflet is a follow-up, similarly concerned with light effects, to soprano Sandrine Piau's German-language Clair-Obscur of a few years back. The German songs might have been a bigger stretch for Piau than the French material here, but Reflet has possibly an even more sublime coherence. One feels that every note is almost foreordained as the program opens with classic orchestral songs from Berlioz, Henri Duparc, and the less common Charles Koechlin, proceeding into darker, more mysterious realms with Ravel's Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, and ending with the youthful ebullience of Britten's Quatre chansons françaises. An illustration of how carefully calibrated everything is here comes with two Debussy pieces, Clair de lune and "Pour remercier la pluie" (from the Six Épigraphes Antiques), arranged for orchestra from other media. These serve as entr'actes between the sections of Piau's program, and they should by all rights have been annoying: aren't there enough genuine orchestral pieces that could have filled the bill? But just listen. These fit into the patterns that run through the whole album, and they make perfect sense, just like everything else. Piau's voice is delicate, soaring, and richly beautiful; one of the miracles of the current scene is its durability and versatility. Her support from conductor Jean-François Verdier, leading the Victor Hugo Orchestra, is confidently smooth, never intruding on the spell Piau weaves. A magnificent orchestral song recital that made classical best-seller lists in early 2024.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Pancrace Royer: Surprising Royer, Orchestral Suites

Les Talens Lyriques

Symphonic Music - Released May 5, 2023 | Aparté

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Beyond the neglect of French Baroque music in general, it is a bit hard to understand why composer Pancrace Royer was almost completely unknown until Christophe Rousset came along to champion him, first in harpsichord music and now, with these suites of music drawn from operas, in orchestral music. In the 18th century, Royer was quite well known and admired among others by Rameau, whose music he helped along considerably. Royer certainly inhabited Rameau's stylistic world, but from the evidence here, his music is distinctive and merits the adjective "surprising" that Rousset has attached to it. It is colorful, given to unexpected turns of harmony, and vivid in its evocation of the exotic scenes of French opera. Sample the "Air pour les turcs" ("Air for the Turks") from Zaïde, reine de Grenade, with its crackling percussion. Royer challenged his orchestra with virtuoso ensemble writing in the likes of the "Premier et second tambourins" from Almasis, and Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques step up with precise, vigorous readings that one imagines would have made the composer overjoyed. The inclusion of two alternate versions for movements from Zaïde is also unusual and gives insight into the compositional thinking of the day. Essential for specialists and enthusiasts interested in the French Baroque, this album is a lot of fun for anyone, with only overdone church sound detracting from the overall effect. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Ligeti: Complete Piano Études

Han Chen

Classical - Released May 26, 2023 | Naxos

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The Études of György Ligeti, which he continued to compose for several decades, were among the works that inaugurated his late style, which in the composer's own words were neither tonal nor atonal, neither avant-garde nor traditional. Some of the titles ("Automne à Varsovie") suggest an Albumblatt or character piece rather than an etude, but Ligeti said that they were compositional studies as well as pianistic ones. Whatever the case, there is a very strong sense of processes being worked out in these pieces, and pianist Han Chen captures the excitement. The Études, and the two Capriccios that provide a little entr'acte, are filled with complex polyrhythms (remarkably for this giant of the avant-garde, his influences included sub-Saharan African music) and unusual pianistic textures; Chen has a real feel for these. Sample Vertige, from Book 2 of the Études, as it spirals into profound dizziness. Chen aptly captures Ligeti's repeated use of a brilliant high register, and the unabashed pianism of this music is given its full due. A powerfully persuasive reading of music that makes a good introduction to Ligeti and the challenging yet fully accessible music of his last decades, this recording made classical best-seller charts in the spring of 2023. © James Manheim /TiVo