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Parc des Princes 93

Johnny Hallyday

French Music - Released June 16, 2023 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Parc des Princes 93

Johnny Hallyday

French Music - Released June 16, 2023 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Les Plus Grands Succes

Michel Delpech

French Music - Released January 1, 2004 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

One of France's most popular and important singer/songwriters of the 1960s and '70s, Michel Delpech's stunning successes are measured here, on this 20-track collection from Universal International. Containing many of his biggest hits -- "Divorces," "La Vie, La Vie," "Le Chasseur," "Wight Is Wight," and "Pour un Flirt," to name but a few -- this collection should serve anyone looking to either get to know or rediscover this French pop legend.© Chris True /TiVo
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Live au Grand Rex

Bénabar

French Music - Released October 1, 2004 | Jive

Singer and songwriter Benabar has a talent for crafting literate songs that draw on film, jazz, and folk motifs, and he is a decidedly post-modern, 21st century artist who draws on the history of chanson with care and intelligence. This two disc, 24-track playlist reproduces his Live au Grand Rex concert set.© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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Michel Delpech

French Music - Released January 1, 1970 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

Le Grand Rex 2007

Michel Delpech

French Music - Released January 1, 2007 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Ce Lundi Là Au Bataclan

Michel Delpech

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

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Quand j'étais chanteur

Alexandre Desplat

Film Soundtracks - Released September 25, 2006 | Europacorp

Michel Delpech - Reprises et duos

Michel Delpech

French Music - Released July 5, 2021 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Quand j'étais chanteur

Michel Delpech

French Music - Released January 1, 2006 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Recreation

Florent Pagny

Pop - Released November 1, 1999 | Universal Music Division Capitol Music France

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Tout Delpech A L'Olympia

Michel Delpech

French Music - Released February 26, 1992 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Asile

The Rebels of Tijuana

Alternative & Indie - Released October 5, 2018 | Echo Orange

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Quand J'étais Chanteur

Mickey G

Pop - Released August 5, 2022 | 3631093 Records DK

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Nylon

Philippe Chatel

French Music - Released June 14, 2023 | Philippe Chatel

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Live 81

Johnny Hallyday

French Music - Released April 1, 1981 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Duni: Le peintre amoureux de son modèle - Les deux chasseurs et la laitière

Orkester Nord

Opera - Released October 6, 2023 | Aparté

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The composer Egidio Duni is all but unknown nowadays, but he worked amidst several important currents of 18th century musical life. A Neapolitan who wrote Italian operas, he was backed by a noble patron who apparently gave him the means to move to Paris. Duni composed French operas of various types, and Denis Diderot cited him as a counterexample to Rousseau's contention that the French language was unsuited to opera. Duni would be worth hearing for his influence alone; the two short comic works recorded here were important early examples of opéra-comique, but they are also charming in their own right. In Paris, they were known not as operas but as "comédies melées d'ariettes," or comedies mixed with ariettas. Much of the dialogue is spoken, and some of that is unaccompanied, while other pieces have a light continuo-like backing. (This aspect of the notation has not survived, but the decisions made by the performers here are unobjectionable.) The texts hold up even today as pretty funny. Le peintre amoureux de son modèle ("The Painter in Love with His Model," she chooses someone her own age at the end) and Les deux chasseurs et la laitière ("The Two Hunters and the Milkmaid") have crackling sitcom dialogue. Physical album buyers will get a booklet with complete texts. The singers are not spectacular (four in one opera, three in the other), but then, they shouldn't be; what is important is that they put the text across, don't overact, and engage with the comedy. The small Orkester Nord is the right size at 23 players, and conductor Martin Wåhlberg keeps things moving along. This is a delightful release of much more than historical interest. If scores are available, collegiate groups could easily mount productions of these works.© James Manheim /TiVo

Piano Mood

Eddy Mitchell

French Music - Released March 29, 2022 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Palais Des Sports 84

Eddy Mitchell

French Music - Released January 1, 1984 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde

Paul Daniel

Opera - Released September 22, 2023 | Opera Rara

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The Opera Rara label and company, true to their name, resurrect forgotten operas. There is an abundance of those in the output of Jacques Offenbach, who wrote some 100 operettas and opéras bouffes, few of which are remembered today. Opera Rara made a good pick with La Princesse de Trébizonde (1869), and this release made classical best-seller charts in the autumn of 2023. Offenbach is as full of good, Arthur Sullivan-like tunes as ever, and he even discarded a number of them from the operetta's original production in Baden-Baden in the process of preparing a new version for Paris. Those discarded pieces are included here, and there could hardly be a better testimony to Offenbach's melodic fecundity. Better still is the action, taking place in a carnival sideshow and suggesting all kinds of ideas for a production set in modern times. It is gloriously preposterous even by operetta standards. A girl, Zanetta, accidentally breaks the nose off a wax figure of the Princess of Trébizonde and agrees to stand in for the figure herself. A prince (a pants role) -- who has dropped a lottery ticket into the till in lieu of paying admission -- falls in love with the "Princess." Meanwhile, the lottery ticket, with a castle as the prize, comes up a winner and overturns the relationships between rich and poor. The comic scenes thus spawned are handled with the needed high spirits by the cast and the several choruses (executed by Opera Rara's remarkable house chorus), and conductor Paul Daniel is ideal in this genre, consistently pushing the tempo just slightly in order to bring the forward momentum. This recording is based on a 2022 London production but is a "cast recording," not a live one, and it is quite clear sonically. La Princesse de Trébizonde has been recorded only twice before, once in Russian (!) and once for French radio in 1966; this sprightly performance is much needed.© James Manheim /TiVo