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The Haras de Vauptain
Nestled in the grounds of Versailles Great Park, the Haras de Vauptain, once a flour mill, is steeped in history and experience. The house is impressive in its character, architecture and scale. A living heritage, reinvented by a family that has been handing down its passion for stone, the land and ...
A Life in a Box
Every year, more than 3 million French people move house. And each time, it's the same concern: putting one’s whole life in boxes, then entrusting them to the more or less gentle hands of movers or friends, then changing one’s environment, getting used to a new address, forming new habits... Accordi...
Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major. Op. 9
The Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major is an orchestral piece for fifteen solo instruments composed in 1906. Schoenberg composed unstable, irresolvable melodies (like Wagner). He also hated sequences and any form of textual "predictability". He was looking for perpetually changing music th...
Avenue Z at the Binic Festival
Lucien and Agnes Vibration crossed one day in a Beckett alley, Antoine (Secte Du Future / Catholic spray). In triangular formation, they are slipping towards the black hole they decide to undertake. Gloomy synthetic ripple and moog synth-fuzz guitar for this postmodern garage band. French ultra-dark...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C major, op. 67
"Just as you throw yourself here into the worldly maelstrom, so you can write works, in spite of all the hindrances imposed by society. Let your deafness be no longer a secret, even in art.” Beethoven, 1806 (inscription in the margin of a sketch for his Quartet Op. 59 n° 3).
Beethoven was more deter...
Cagnes-sur-mer, a world in itself
The Cagnes-sur-Mer racecourse is a legendary racetrack. Very different from the other 250 racetracks in France because of its geographical location on the French Riviera with its feet in the Big Blue, it is also a "mixed" track, where the three equestrian disciplines, flat racing, jump racing and tr...
Claude Debussy, La Mer
Claude Debussy was always particularly drawn to the sea and wrote La Mer in just 18 months, a very short time for him. He became a recognised artist and a leading reference in the world of music. He was also an important critic. In January of the same year, 1903, he was made Chevalier of the Legion ...
Dividers at the Binic Festival
The leader, Ismaël, gathered a quartet inspired by classic Americana, twisted in a deafening antifolk. Traumatized by Lee Hazlewood, The Gun Club, Marc Bolan and Violent femmes, Dividers accelerate and purify these folk melodies. The melancholic songwritting and nonchalant voice merge with Fuzz howl...
Gustav Malher, des Knaben Wunderhorn (l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France)
Mahler draws on the collection « Des Knaben Wunderhorn » traditional German poems to create orchestral songs and voice and piano settings.
Their succession creates a sort of cycle, mini-tales made of childish wonder and philosophical outlook on the world. The composer was fascinated by these “liede...
