Durations
License to Dream
Who are the people who train racehorses... but without making it their job? What drives them to rise before dawn and invest their time and money in “making horses run”? “Licensed Trainers” come from all social classes: post office workers, doctors, mechanics, restaurateurs, nurses, EDF agents, teach...
Life Stories
One was deported for being a Jew, the other for being a Resistant, the third for being both... Three women who experienced the hell of the extermination camps describe their descent into the unspeakable...
Gisèle Guillemot, from Normandy, was involved in sabotaging German military trains. All of ...
LIKE A TASTE OF ITALY
Italians who love their country and its cuisine, they have decided to share its riches with the French. Marco, a chef, champions Italian desserts. Alessandra titillates the taste buds of gourmets with his “Made in Italy” tasting workshops. While Sara, Francesca and Savatore produce Mozzarella with c...
Louisiana bass and big business
In the US, the black bass is the prime target for over 20 million anglers, generating an annual turnover of sixteen billion dollars! Jean-Philippe and Mathieu, two French fishermen with a passion for angling set off to live their own American dream in Louisiana, a state that boasts some of the most ...
Mendelssohn: opening of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
Felix Mendelssohn was 17 when he first read William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The story inspired him and he composed a sublime score for it... known today as the Overture. Twenty years later, King Frederick William IV of Prussia commissioned Mendelssohn to write a score for a ...
Modern Mermaids
Two businesswomen go underwater hunting. Valerie and Valentine, in suits and high heels, both lead hectic lives as businesswomen. One operates in London in the world of finance, while the other, a French athletic bodybuilding champion, works with the teams of a leading car manufacturer.
The film fol...
Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Book VIII – Part 1
Paul Agnew’s monumental project to perform all eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals in just four years seems as ambitious as performing the complete works of Bach! A bold challenge, like the work itself. Contained within these eight Books are the foundations of modern music, from the end of the Ren...
Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Book VIII – Part 2
Paul Agnew’s monumental project to perform all eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals in just four years seems as ambitious as performing the complete works of Bach! A bold challenge, like the work itself. Contained within these eight Books are the foundations of modern music, from the end of the Ren...
Mozart : quatuor op. 10 n°6
The Quartet Op 10 No 6, extract of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn,was published in 1785. The four musicians propose here a very beautiful and profound interpretation, inhabited by the generous but tormented breath of the composer.
The surprising introduction is deep, captivating. Then followed the ...
Mozart, oboe concerto in C major K.314
The existence of an oboe concerto, composed by Mozart in the summer of 1777 for Giuseppe Ferlendis, oboist of the Salzburg chapel, played a few months later by Mozart in Ramm, has always been a certainty. But this concerto was thought lost, until Bernhard Paumgartner discovered it in separate parts ...
