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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 ...
Mozart, serenade KV. 361 in B flat major « Gran Partita »
Serenade KV 361 in B flat major, called Gran Partita, is a work in seven movements for twelve wind instruments and double bass. Originally devoted to the outdoors, this "Evening Music" goes beyond the spirit of divertimento to get closer from the symphony.
Through its inspiration, the diversity of i...
My Brightest Diamond (SoirÉe de Poche)
Shara Worden is not what you might call discreet. Expansive in her gestures, her costumes and her music, the American has an innate sense of grandiose pop, without ever falling into grandiloquence. With her drummer and guitarist, and helped by her faithful MC, who took care of the first half of her ...
My first fishing trip
Interwoven portraits of fly-fishermen getting their first taste of fly-fishing, competition, and fishing for catfish, carp or black bass. A light-hearted documentary that takes us back to our own beginnings in the sport. And there’s always a first time! Those veterans who have seen and done it all w...