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Indochine

Rock - Released January 13, 2023 | RCA Group

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Hors série

Daniel Balavoine

French Music - Released December 3, 2020 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Americana 2

Roch Voisine

French Music - Released August 18, 2009 | Jive Epic

Americana II, otherwise billed as AmerIIcana, is a sequel to Roch Voisine's album from the previous year, Americana (2008), a full-length collection of American country standards that was recorded in Nashville. Sung mostly in English with a few French-language versions appended as bonus tracks, Americana was a big hit in France, where it reached number three on the albums chart. Despite its success, it wasn't a great album. It features standards like "Ring of Fire" and "Crazy" that have been covered a million times over, and worse, the album was produced in a very plain country-pop style without any edge whatsoever. Tellingly, the album wasn't as well received in Voisine's native Canada, where listeners are more accustomed to country music. Nonetheless, Americana was such a big hit abroad -- not only in France but also in neighboring Belgium and Switzerland -- that it warranted a follow-up sequel specifically oriented toward the European market. Consequently, there are a greater number of French-language versions (five rather than three), and the standards are generally even more middle of the road, favoring country-rock rather than the classic country of the first Americana album. For instance, there are covers of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," the Eagles' "Take It Easy," John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads," Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown," Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman," and Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" -- none of these songs categorically country by any stretch of the term. The one country standard found on Americana II is the album opener, Tom T. Hall's "That's How I Got to Memphis." It also happens to be the album highlight. The songs are once again performed straightforwardly with production by Chad Carlson, a Nashville engineer whose credits include Taylor Swift's country-pop mega-hit Fearless (2008).© Jason Birchmeier /TiVo

Quelques titres que je connais d'elle, Vol. 1

Françoise Hardy

French Music - Released December 8, 2023 | Parlophone (France)

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Debussy: Petite suite, Danses pour harpe et orchestre & Épigraphes antiques

Jean-François Paillard

Classical - Released January 1, 1969 | Warner Classics

Jean-François Paillard and his orchestra were the key to the success of Erato Records, representing a certain idea of French music from the 1950s to the 1970s. This student of Igor Markevitch quickly stood out by forming the orchestra bearing his name and by dedicating himself to a then little-known branch of French music from Lully to Debussy. His rigidity with regard to the rise of historically informed baroque music (period instruments, tuning fork, playing mode) rendered his approach obsolete, even though it opened the door to this revival, at least as far as the considered repertoire is concerned. Among Jean-François Paillard’s many recordings, this one holds a special place because it represents one of his very rare and cautious forays into the repertoire written at the beginning of the twentieth century.Recorded in 1970, this is a very smooth and lively version of the Petite Suite written by a young Debussy still immersed in his stays in Russia with Madame von Meck, Tchaikovsky's benefactress, in a diaphanous orchestration by Henri Büsser.This enjoyment was increased tenfold by a reunion with the great harpist Lily Laskine playing one of her favourite works, the Danses pour harpe et orchestre à cordes that Debussy composed at the request of Pleyel as a display of its instruments. As for Épigraphes antiques, this is one of Debussy’s last works, composed in 1914 for piano four hands, with the idea of a future orchestration. It was the conductor Ernest Ansermet who fulfilled this wish in 1932 with his delicate orchestration, followed forty years later by this version for strings alone, due to the talent of the transcriber and performer Jean-François Paillard. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Un Jour Si Blanc

François Couturier

Jazz - Released January 25, 2010 | ECM

The title of François Couturier's album, Un Jour Si Blanc, comes from a poem by Soviet filmmaker Andreï Tarkovsky, an artist with whom the pianist is fascinated and whose work was the inspiration for his entire 2006 album, Nostalghia: Song for Tarkovsky. The French pianist has devoted most of his career to jazz, but he obviously knows the classical repertoire well because in previous albums he has made musical references to composers as diverse as Pergolesi, Beethoven, Schoenberg, and Schnittke. That broad frame of reference gives his music an uncommon expressive scope, and the selections on this album offer an impressive stylistic and emotional range. It's possible to hear the influence of Messiaen in L'aube, Ligeti in the crystalline chromatic sections of the title track, and sultry hints of Piazzolla in Voyage d'hiver, but there is no sense of appropriation because the voice is always Couturier's own. His dazzlingly crisp technique gives him the freedom to explore and create pianistic figures that would be out of the reach of all but the most virtuosic players. In the more meditative pieces, he plays with a mesmerizing, unhurried serenity and flexibility; it almost feels like it's possible to hear him listening. Couturier can be heard quietly vocalizing in the more intense passages, but it's no distraction. The album should appeal to fans of both jazz and new classical music with a taste for the adventurous. ECM's sound is characteristically clean, clear, and immediate. © TiVo
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Le temps des souvenirs

Françoise Hardy

French Music - Released November 21, 2005 | Parlophone (France)

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Le danger

Françoise Hardy

French Music - Released April 19, 1996 | Parlophone (France)

L'Education Anglaise

Philippe Katerine

French Music - Released January 1, 1994 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Comptine d'un autre été

Francisco Luis Molina, Tramao

Pop - Released November 26, 2021 | Francisco Luis Molina Tramao

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L'essentiel des tubes de l'été, Volume 1

François & The New Frenchies

Dance - Released March 2, 2024 | AUDIO VIDEO - LMPT

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Boby Lapointe

French Music - Released January 1, 1970 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

Distinctions The Qobuz Ideal Discography
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Célèbres chants d'église pour les funérailles

Ensemble Vocal l'Alliance

Cantatas (sacred) - Released May 1, 1999 | ADF Musique