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David & Jonathas

Gaétan Jarry

Classical - Released June 9, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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La tournée historique (Live à l'Accor Arena, 2023)

Michel Polnareff

French Music - Released November 24, 2023 | Parlophone (France)

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Michel Polnareff

French Music - Released November 18, 2022 | Parlophone (France)

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Charpentier: David et Jonathas, H. 490

Les Pages du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles

Opera - Released March 1, 2024 | Aparté

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David et Jonathas, setting the action-packed biblical story of Saul, has not often been recorded. William Christie and Les Arts Florissants fired the first shot in the late '90s, and there have been a few other attempts, but the work crosses categories -- not really an oratorio, with a limited role for the chorus, but not an opera in the conventional sense -- and this may have hurt it at the box office. The Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles specializes in music of this period, and Charpentier is certainly right up this outfit's alley. The recording was made at Versailles, but its strength is actually that it reproduces the circumstances of its origin, which occurred elsewhere, at a Jesuit school in Paris. The music was intended to alternate with scenes from a play; here, conductor Olivier Schneebeli opts for declaimed readings from poetry by the 17th century writer Antoine Godeau. The work was written for young singers, not only in the children's choir but also a child in the lead role of Jonathas, and Natacha Boucher has a great deal of flair here, certainly sounding like a future star. All the singers are either children or male adults. The music is continuous, and Charpentier's writing sometimes falls into melody or recitative but is most often somewhere in between, shifting naturally with the text. Some of it is quite vocally spectacular, however; sample "Quelle importune voix vient importune mon repos," Act I, scene 4, with its bass line descending to Russian-liturgical depths. Although the opera has five acts and a prologue, it goes by quickly; no doubt with the original use in mind, Charpentier's concept is compact. What is most attractive about the work is how opposite it is to the splendor and formality of Lully; the role of the chorus is limited, and the focus is squarely on the characters. Baroque opera lovers will find something new and intriguing here.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Love Me Please Love Me

Michel Polnareff

Pop - Released January 1, 1966 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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This early work by French performer Polnareff is a varied and not too impressive grouping of ten songs, all of which he wrote or co-wrote, usually singing in French (though occasionally in English). Various hues of circa-1966 pop/rock, folk-rock, and French sentimental pop are explored and combined by the singer/songwriter, whose vocal range is wide but not to everyone's liking. Sometimes he sings gentle, pleasantly (though not memorably) melodic folk-rock ("Sous Quelle Etoile Suis Je Ne?"); at others, period British-influenced mod pop ("Time Will Tell"); at others, in a more Continental crooning style ("Ballade Pour Toi"). At times he leaps into an almost yodeling falsetto that is a little annoying; on "Time Will Tell," he sounds a bit as if he's trying to leap into Lou Christie territory, though he ends up closer to Bobby Vinton's ear-piercing high parts from "Mr. Lonely." The title track, "Love Me, Please Love Me," is a low point with its groveling romanticism and extensive repetitions of that semi-yodeling falsetto, though "Ballade Pour un Puceau" manages to do even worse with its nasal-megaphone, "Winchester Cathedral"-like vaudevillianisms. On the other hand, "You'll Be on My Mind" is almost punky Bo Diddley-styled rock, and "La Poupee Qui Fait Non" might be the most familiar tune to British Invasion collectors, as it was covered by the Birds in the U.K. (though not issued until 1999). Procol Harum fans might want to seek this out for two obscure songs on here that Polnareff penned with Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid, the aforementioned "Time Will Tell" and "You'll Be on My Mind."© Richie Unterberger /TiVo

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Michel Polnareff

Pop - Released December 8, 2017 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Masque de chair

Scylla

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released March 31, 2017 | Urban

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Qui Suis-Je ?

Sefyu

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released April 24, 2006 | Because Music

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Salieri: Les Danaïdes

Christophe Rousset

Classical - Released May 19, 2015 | Bru Zane

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1970 - 1973

Guy Béart

French Music - Released September 4, 2020 | Universal Music Division Label Panthéon

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Scylla

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released January 11, 2017 | Urban

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Edison Denisov : Symphonies de chambre n°1 & n°2 - Au plus haut des cieux

Brigitte Peyré

Symphonic Music - Released November 12, 2012 | harmonia mundi

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Lonni

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released April 26, 2024 | SB Entertainment

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Hip-Hop/Rap - Released July 2, 2023 | CLM

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French Music - Released December 2, 2022 | Teenage Kicks Production

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Hip-Hop/Rap - Released May 9, 2021 | Haya Music Group

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Pop - Released March 25, 2024 | 6589315 Records DK

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Frenchy B

French Music - Released August 11, 2017 | Brilliant Tunes

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Mr Nang

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released October 22, 2021 | 2173074 Records DK

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OxxaS

Soul - Released February 14, 2023 | SansCœurMusic