Performing Arts
J.S. Bach’s Goldberg variations
The Duo Mélisande, composed of two young and brilliant guitar players, Toulouse-based Sébastien Llinares and Nicolas Lestoquoy from Lille, present an enthralling and original version of the famous Goldberg Variations, a masterpiece by J-S. Bach, transcribed for two guitars.
The second half of the sh...
Jacky Terrasson at the Olympia
The new album of Jacky Terrasson, rich of diversity and inspiration, is creating a dialogue between post-bob, pop, hip-hop, African, Caribbean and even classical musics. Various musicians accompanied him: the American bassist Travis Burniss, Cuban drummer Lukmil Perez, Malian percussionist Adama Dia...
Jean Sibelius, violin concerto in D minor op. 47
Sibelius’s music combines popular inspirations with theoretical legacies. The violin concerto, the only the maestro composed, in 1903-1905, is very traditional in form : three movements (fast long, slow, fast short). It opens on small misty waves to the strings while the violin began its first theme...
Jordi Savall: Musician for Peace
Documentary dedicated to the Catalan musician Jordi SAVALL specialist of viola da gamba and baroque music. His work on ancient music is nourished by exchanges and interactions between the East, Asia and the West. He leads us to a reflection on peace having its source in several cultural and religiou...
JORDI SAVALL: TERRA NOSTRA, tribute to Planet Earth
As part of the 10th Music and History Festival for Intercultural Dialogue, under the direction of Jordi SAVALL, the Concert des Nations performs works by Marin Marais, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean Philippe Rameau, Matthew Locke, Antonio Vivaldi, and Jean Fery Rebel .
The 17th century sa...
JORDI SAVALL: THE ROUTES OF SLAVERY (1500- 1888)
This concert evokes the history of the slave routes and the slave trade from the memory of the oral traditions of the descendants of its victims in Brazil, Mali, Madagascar, Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia. It pays tribute to the victims of this terrible triangular trade (Europe, Africa and the New Wor...
Kramies
This songwriter from Colorado (USA) came to light thanks to his romantic style and his aura of dreams and fantasy tales, striking the balance it creates between surreal cheerfulness and melancholy. He signed in 2011 with the Australian Hidden Shoal Recordings and became known to the general public o...
Le Sacre du Tympan : tribute to FranÇois de Roubaix
Exceptional concert dedicated to François de Roubaix, French composer and electro pioneer, famous for his movie soundtracks and series theme tunes. This tribute is dedicated to the composer’s repertoire revised with synthesizers and electric instruments and with the participation of a DJ performanc...
Les DÉsaxÉs : Saxophonissimo
Les Désaxés, a quartet of virtuoso saxophonists, actors, dancers, sound effects artists and singers, offer us a compilation of their best creations. They present their own take on Vivaldi, Bach, Brahms, Khachatourian, Debussy, Ravel, Pachelbel and Bizet with poetry and humour... They blend genres: f...
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 ...
