Durations
André Ceccarelli: Ultimo
In celebration of a career spanning 50 years, an epic journey that led him to play with the greatest names in jazz, French drummer André Ceccarelli decided to release his last opus "Ultimo" as a leader. A final discographical adventure for which he called in his faithful companions Pierre-Alain Goua...
Andrew Bird at the Days Off Festival in Paris, Cité de la Musique
Violinist, singer and composer from Illinois, Andrew Bird is a virtuoso whose skill and arrangements are as dazzling in the studio as they are live. The grandiose setting of La Philharmonie provides the perfect acoustics for this precious selection of indie-folk songs, which are both graceful and to...
Anton Webern : Langsamer Satz+ six bagatelles
A rich and robust interpretation of Langsamer Satz by Anton Webern, composer of the Second Viennese School. The melodic impetus remind the end of the romantic period, particularly well developed by this sensitive and touching ensemble.
A real modernity magnificently revealed by the quartet Les Diss...
Archive at La Carrière in Nantes
An unusual place in which to film Archive’s equally unusual music! Large windows, a mixture of metal structures and light wood: the refined architecture of the Nantes La Carrière concert hall is a wonderful setting for the British band’s progressive rock, its lightshow and elaborate melodies.
Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major. Op. 9
The Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major is an orchestral piece for fifteen solo instruments composed in 1906. Schoenberg composed unstable, irresolvable melodies (like Wagner). He also hated sequences and any form of textual "predictability". He was looking for perpetually changing music th...
Avenue Z at the Binic Festival
Lucien and Agnes Vibration crossed one day in a Beckett alley, Antoine (Secte Du Future / Catholic spray). In triangular formation, they are slipping towards the black hole they decide to undertake. Gloomy synthetic ripple and moog synth-fuzz guitar for this postmodern garage band. French ultra-dark...
Baltic Sea Voyage / Kristjan Järvi
Each year, the best musicians of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, are chosen to create a unique orchestra. Guided by its founder, Conductor and Musical Director Kristjan Järvi, the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic (BYP) prepares original programm...
Barthes de l’Adour, a living environment
Through a series of interwoven portraits of local people, most of them hunters, the film allows us to discover some very special wetlands. Focusing on the way that hunting is being used to maintain this welcoming environment, it is also a reflection on the future of these areas, made by man four cen...
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...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C major, op. 67
"Just as you throw yourself here into the worldly maelstrom, so you can write works, in spite of all the hindrances imposed by society. Let your deafness be no longer a secret, even in art.” Beethoven, 1806 (inscription in the margin of a sketch for his Quartet Op. 59 n° 3).
Beethoven was more deter...
