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Cigarettes After Sex at the Grand Halle
A disturbing androgynous voice, voluptuously hazy songs with a slow pulse, a science of silences and a suggestion of Velvet Underground: with this 4-star formula, Cigarettes After Sex sends temperatures soaring. Led by Greg Gonzalez, this American group from El Paso, Texas, achieved massive populari...
Kevin Morby at the Grande Halle
A multi-faceted musician, leader of many bands and side projects (Creepy Aliens, The Babies), Kevin Morby is one of the new faces of today's indie folk-rock scene.
With his seventies-star vibe and his heart-wrenching Dylanic ballads, the former Woods bassist made his name with Harlem River, an albu...
The high road to Kilkenny – Early Music from Ireland
Perfomance of The Musicians of Saint-Julien in Celtic lands, “The high road to Kilkenny” combines refined, “highbrow” pieces along with an entertaining repertoire of songs in Gælic and dances from the Irish Baroque.
Ancient Celtic music carries great mystery. Wherever you look at it, i...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Op.36 in F minor
Dedicated to Tchaikovsky’s platonic muse (and wealthy patroness) Nadezhda von Meck, the Fourth Symphony conceals a hidden programme, which the composer explained in a letter to his friend. The main idea of the work, the kernel of the whole score, appears at the opening: "Fatum, that fatal power whic...
Blaenavon & Isaac Gracie (Pocket Parties)
Blaenavon. These three young Englishmen are among the most promising talents of the moment, capable of going from elegiac piano ballads to epic rock songs without batting an eyelid. Signed to the Foals label, they were tipped for success after their appearance at the 2016 SXSW Festival, the leading ...
The last council
The Last Council tells the story of 13 old ladies, native grandmothers and charismatic ambassadors of oral civilisations: living libraries, keepers of long forgotten traditions, each of these grandmothers is the image of a culture. They come from Central Africa, Nepal, Tibet, North and South Americ...
Beethoven, Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 61
Beethoven's violin concerto, written in 1806, the same year as the Fourth Symphony, is characterized by its profusion of themes and its unusual length: almost forty minutes, twice the length of most of Mozart's violin concertos.
Today this concerto is considered one of the major pieces of the violin...
Brahms, Symphony N°2 in D major, op.7
After the slow maturation of the First Symphony, the composition of the second one takes one year and its creation in Vienna by Wagnerian conductor Hans Richter is a success. Everybody find it more understandable and brighter. Brahms himself spoke of " waltze series" or "gay and innocent little symp...
