Performing Arts
The high road to Kilkenny – Early Music from Ireland
Perfomance of The Musicians of Saint-Julien in Celtic lands, “The high road to Kilkenny” combines refined, “highbrow” pieces along with an entertaining repertoire of songs in Gælic and dances from the Irish Baroque.
Ancient Celtic music carries great mystery. Wherever you look at it, i...
The National at the Cork Opera House
It’s been a long time since these five young Americans, signed to a small, pioneering French label, were playing endless gigs in small venues. In just over fifteen years, The National has become a major American rock group, breaking through the Indie glass ceiling to reach a large audience, first ac...
The Sultan’s Organ – Sablé sur Sarthe Baroque Festival
Recorded at the Church Notre-Dame during the Sablé sur Sarthe BaroqueFestival, august 2017
The story of an incredible musical journey of an Organ from London to Constantinople on the eve of the XVIIth century.
The two Orchestras l’Achéron and Sultan Veled accompany us in a melodious journey in s...
The Sultana
Concert recorded at St-Pierre et St-Paul de Brûlon Church during the Sablé sur Sarthe Baroque festival (25th August 2017)
Conductor and harpsichordist : Christophe Rousset
Musical Director and Harpsichord Player Christophe Rousset conducts Les Talens Lyriques, the Orchestra he created. He proposes...
Tomter, Kam & Ihle Hadland : Berg / Brahms / Mozart
Trio Tomter concert recorded at the Bergen International Festival.
Alan Berg : four pièces for clarinet and piano, op.5
Johannes Brahms : Sonata for viola et piano in F minor, op.120, N°1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : trio for clarinet, viola and piano in E flat major, K.498 « Kegel...
URBAN VOICES: The Celtic Way
For the 7th edition of Urban Voices, the audience in Nantes was invited to join the musicians and choristers along the Celtic way.
Ireland was in the spotlight with its Gaelic melodies and its tradition of music and song from the land of enchanted myths and legends.
As usual, the artists in re...
Biguine – Inheritance
Martinican musical history is largely marked by colonisation, slavery, the wars of influence between the old European colonial empires and the eruption of the Montagne Pelée in 1902.
The development of its music, like its population, has followed a historical evolution. Martinique music has its orig...
Maurice Ravel : 5 Works by David Grimal & les Dissonances
A man with an independent and enigmatic nature, Maurice Ravel’s work lies at the turning point between the 19th and 20th centuries, a time of quarrels between modernists and traditionalists. After the First World War and the death of Debussy, he was considered one of the greatest French composers of...
Tchaikovsky: concerto for violin op.35 in D major
Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major is a score of immense technical difficulty, which leans openly towards Gypsy music in the last movement and conceals a slow movement full of lyrical nostalgia that goes straight to the heart. Director Radu Mikaileanu gave this concerto a central role in his h...
