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Schumann – Bruckner
In concert on January 30, 2017 at the Philharmonie de Paris.
David Grimal is the soloist in a little known work, Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto, and explores with Les Dissonances Bruckner’s immense 7th Symphony, with its overwhelming Adagio mourning the death of Richard Wagner.
- Robert Schumann:...
Snarky Puppy at the Olympia: Cucha Vulcha
In concert on May 18, 2017 at the Olympia
Based in Brooklyn but formed in Texas, the Snarky Puppy collective is considered by Rolling Stone to be "one of the most exciting groups on the stage today". In this concert they give us an album in which Motown meets Bombay and Dallas church music is tinged...
The Fegentri horsewomen
12 women from different countries compete over the course of a year on the world’s most prestigious racetracks during the Fegentri Championship.
A film that gets us as close as possible to the riders, horses and atmosphere of the great races, and in which culture shocks, emotional ties and sporting ...
The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)
Performing the Rite of Spring at the Philharmonie de Paris with no conductor, David Grimal and the 97 musicians of the Dissonances give themselves a harder challenge each year.
This work by Stravinsky, written in 1913, explores simple themes: rhythm and harmony. However, it was one of the most scan...
Biguine – Inheritance
Martinican musical history is largely marked by colonisation, slavery, the wars of influence between the old European colonial empires and the eruption of the Montagne Pelée in 1902.
The development of its music, like its population, has followed a historical evolution. Martinique music has its orig...
Delepine / Kervern: Open Exhausts
Documentary about the filmmaking duo Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern.
Filmmakers Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who came to us from Groland, (a popular French TV show on Canal +), create works of poetry often inspired by outsider art and surrealism.
"Each of our films tells the same story...
Maurice Ravel : 5 Works by David Grimal & les Dissonances
A man with an independent and enigmatic nature, Maurice Ravel’s work lies at the turning point between the 19th and 20th centuries, a time of quarrels between modernists and traditionalists. After the First World War and the death of Debussy, he was considered one of the greatest French composers of...
Tchaikovsky: concerto for violin op.35 in D major
Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major is a score of immense technical difficulty, which leans openly towards Gypsy music in the last movement and conceals a slow movement full of lyrical nostalgia that goes straight to the heart. Director Radu Mikaileanu gave this concerto a central role in his h...
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...
Tod Browning, The Game of Illusions
A portrait of the "Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema", the director of the mythical Freaks and the first Dracula “talkie” with Bela Lugosi, through his films, which were thought lost and recently found.
Although the director's two best-known films are talkies (FREAKS and DRACULA), Tod Browning was main...