Performing Arts
The ROYAL CONCERT OF THE NIGHT
Ensemble Correspondances, with Sébastien DAUCE (organ, harpsichord and direction), performs the Royal Concert of the Night, based on "Royal Ballet of the Nuict, danced by his Majesty on February 23, 1653", who lives for the first time Louis XIV appear as Sun King.
Concert recorded on November 30,...
TRANSSIBERIAN
9288 kilometers, 105 train stations, 13 days, 1 album. The French composer Thylacine decided to challenge himself : to find the inspiration and achieve a complete album for the time of a trip from Moscow to Vladivostok on the legendary rails of the Transsiberian Red Arrow.
For Thylacine, it’s an ex...
WieBo (Bowie/DecouflÉ)
All the facets of this "man who fell to earth" are shining through an absolutely stunning and transgender show. It is as much a concert as it is a performance, an official ceremony as much as a clandestine cabaret, this great glam rock celebration runs through the work of Bowie in fifteen songs.
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A bas bruit (Insidiously)
Insidiously. This is the way certain epidemics, ideas challenging the established order and nascent feelings are transmitted. Insidiously, like the story of our lives, in which the personal joins the great movements of history. Poised between dance and circus, the show is a kaleidoscopic collection ...
Arnold SchÖnberg, Chamber symphony N°2, Op. 38
The chamber symphony op.38 # 2 is an orchestral work written in 1939. Schönberg began its composing shortly after the first symphony, but finished it 33 years later. This partition is the witness of a musical turnaround in the late 30’s: the composer have successively explored tonal music and twelve...
Aston Villa, the 20th anniversary concert
This group from the Paris suburbs hits the road slowly but surely since 1994.Their incantatory rock made them one of the most unique band of the French scene. After two studio albums, "Bonne Nouvelle" and "Extraversion" and a live recording, Aston Villa was awarded « Discovery of the Year » by the p...
Brahms: symphony N ° 1 in C minor, op.68
Johannes Brahms composed his first symphony late in life, beginning it in 1862 and completing in 1876. Legend has it that his decision to tackle the genre was prompted by his finding a pen on Ludwig van Beethoven’s tomb in 1862. It represented the return to the great classical symphony, while fashio...
Brahms: Symphony N°3 in F-major Op. 90
Composed in 1883 in Wiesbaden, Symphony No.3 aroused a great deal of enthusiasm, especially from Hans Richter, who nicknamed it the Eroica. The work was inspired by Schumann, and angered Wagner fans when it was played for the first time. Scored for strings, woodwind, brass and percussion, the sympho...
Chostakovitch, cello concerto n°1 in E flat major, Op. 107
Composed in a difficult period of Chostakovich's life who then suffers from poliomyelitis, this concerto is dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich. The musical motif DSCH occurs clearly in this work. In the final Chostakovich used Stalin’s favorite Russian melody, “Suliko”, but deforming it in an ironic...
Cromwell, or the conspirators (Victor Hugo)
The Western comes to 17th century England in the form of a disjointed, modern and unexpected adaptation of a rarely performed Victor Hugo play.
London. Between the sumptuous Westminster Palace, freshly usurped from King Charles I by the regicide Cromwell, and the sinister Three Cranes Tavern, a grou...
