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JORDI SAVALL : ORIENT-OCCIDENT (Fontfroide 2006)
Dialogue of Christian, Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian music from around the Mediterranean.
Concert recorded at Fontfroide Abbey on August 10, 2006
Performers: Montserrat Figueras and Ustad Mahwash (vocals), Ensemble Radio Kaboul, Hespérion XXI…
Director: Jordi Savall
ISRAEL Al...
KAIETEUR
This documentary reports the expedition of the Belgian herpetologist Philippe Kok in the Kaieteur (Guyana) nature reserve that host one of the highest waterfalls in the world. This reptile and batrachians specialist knows the region well: each year he discovers new species in the park.
For this new...
MADAGASCAR OTHERWISE : A TRAIN GREATLY EXPECTED
The « East Coast Fianarantsoa » (ECF), is 163 km of railway between Fianarantsoa, capital of Betsileo and Manakara costal city of Madagascar. Composed of 67 bridges and 48 tunnels, ECF is one of the most abrupt railways in the world. It goes though one of the most beautiful landscape of Madagascar. ...
MADAGASCAR OTHERWISE : VAS VIS VALI
Justin Vali is the uncontested valiha master player, Madagascar iconic instrument.
He is for sure the most known Madagascan artist in the western world.
After playing on the most famous stages of the world, Justin return to his country to open the first school dedicated to teaching valiha playing. ...
MOZART REQUIEM – Jean-Charles Gil
Mozart Requiem continues in the tradition the Ballet d’Europe has made its own, affirming the precious and all too often threatened nature of life within the modern world. It thus seeks out life in its darkest depths: death. For the choreographer, the future is built from memories of the past, not i...
OLIVIER MANOURY QUARTET LIVE AT NEW MORNING, Paris
French musician and bandoneonist Olivier Manoury, has always been drawn to trying new things and works with a wide variety of musicians.
This time, he’s appearing with a fully electric quartet: bandoneón, bass, piano, electric piano (Fender-Rhodes) and drums. Influenced by tango, funk, Piazzolla ...
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY & the ENSEMBLE MATHEUS : Vivaldi & Haendel
Concert given by the ensemble MATHEUS under the direction of Jean-Christophe SPINOSI and counter-tenor Philippe JAROUSSKY who performs operatic arias by Vivaldi and Handel.
Recorded February 2, 2006 at the Chapel of the Trinity in Lyon.
With Laurence PAUGAM, first violin, Jean-Marc G...
PORTRAIT : Frank Braley
Meeting with the pianist Frank BRALEY who looks back on his career, embellishing it with a few anecdotes: his first piano lessons with his mother, his first teachers, his entry into the Paris Conservatory at the age of 18, the international competition of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium in 1991. He then ...
PORTRAIT: François Frédéric Guy
Portrait of the pianist François-Frédéric GUY, who talks about his training and his artistic journey, the recording of a record, his meetings with conductors and composers, his relationships with the pianist Nicolas ANGELICH, of his work with young students, of his desire to concentrate his repertoi...
PORTRAIT: Sergio Tiempo
Portrait of the Venezuelan pianist Sergio TIEMPO who says he owes his vocation as a concert performer to Martha Argerich.This documentary is made up of archive images including personal archives, an interview with Sergio TIEMPO and some interpretations by the pianist, as well as extracts from concer...
