Classical music
MEDITERRANEO
Concert recorded during the Sablé-sur-Sarthe Baroque Festival (21st august 2018)
Between lyrism and instrumental improvisations, traditionnal music and baroque pieces… It looks like the South. Sail on the Mediterranean sea with the musical cruise conducted by Christina Pluhar. The Ensemble l'Arpegg...
PORTRAIT : Serguey Smbatyan
Meeting with SERGUEY SMBATYAN, the youngest conductor to establish himself on the international stages.
Sergey Smbatyan is the Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra (ASSO)
For his numerous achievements in culture, the c...
Violin Concertos by Jean-Marie Leclair
Concert recorded during the Sablé-sur-Sarthe Baroque Festival (23th august 2018)
Violin has a place of honor in the Sarthe ! Listen carefully.
Violin player Stéphanie-Marie Degand and her ensemble La Diane Française, accompanied by talented soloists, chose to show us pieces by Jean-Marie Leclair...
Viva Espana! Les Dissonances
In 2004, the creation of the artists’ collective Les Dissonances by the violinist David Grimal initiated the start of an extraordinary adventure: a tribute to the famous Mozart quartet as well as the sign of a constructive divergence from conventional thinking. Les Dissonances play without a conduct...
A Journey with Marcel KhalifÉ
This Lebanese artist with his prolific output (film music, ballets, concertos, symphonies...), a recognized “Unesco Artist for Peace" for his commitment to his country’s musical heritage, has set himself the task of reviving the spirit of Middle Eastern music. By way of mixing cultures, Marcel Khali...
America : From Bernstein to Bartok
In concert on April 8, 2017 at the Opéra de Dijon, with David Grimal and Les Dissonances:
America! A new world of dreams and fortune that captures the migrant as soon as he sees the Statue of Liberty and the docks of New York from the deck of the boat. But also America, a land of disappointed hopes,...
Following the leader
How to lead an orchestra without a conductor? How to bring down the institution that elevated the "Maestro" to the status of demigod?
An investigation within the classical music community into the relationship between power and creation, through the example of the Dissonances (60-piece orchestra pla...
Haydn’s The Seasons : Paris Chamber Orchestra, Accentus choir
Concert recorded on December 16, 2017 at La Philarmonie de Paris
Laurence Equilbey conducts Joseph Haydn's great oratorio, "The Seasons", performed by the Accentus choir and the Paris Chamber Orchestra. This is the Philharmonie de Paris’ Christmas concert, a participatory event in which the public i...
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:...
