Performing Arts
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 ...
Olivier Latry plays the Great Organ of Notre-Dame
In the dead of night, in the very centre of the capital, a man is hunched over the keyboards of his instrument. Alone, inside Notre-Dame de Paris. Olivier Latry, one of the cathedral’s resident organists, relishes the privilege of being able to play this great Cavaillé-Coll instrument, which is amon...
Once upon a time… performed by l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France
The Orchestre National d'Ile de France, directed by Enrique Mazzola, invites us to rediscover 3 tales for yound and old alike. Performed at the Philarmonie de Paris :
- Engelbert Humperdinck: prelude of Hänsel and Gretel (8')
- Ruggero Leoncavallo: Prologue of Pagliacci (6')
- Sergueï Prokofiev: Pe...
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf (l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France )
Pierre plays in the Russian countryside, near the house of his grandfather. A wolf is hanging around and eats the farm’s duck. Pierre managed to tie his tail, then convinces the hunters not to kill him and finally take him to the zoo. There is more fear than harm in this timeless tale that delights ...
Rameau : Daphnis & Eglé / La Naissance d’Osiris
Two works that have rarely seen the light of day. Setting them alongside Rameau’s tragédies lyriques one might be tempted to dismiss them as flimsy entertainments but they reveal a world full of charm, humanity, sensuality, and grace. These are not pieces written for the opera houses of Paris but fo...
Regal at the Binic Festival
This French Garage trio, discovery of the label Born Bad, is not afraid to chop melodies that overcome with emotion on sophisticated arrangements full of energy !
The Binic Festival:
Created in 2008 by a passionate team, willing to give to their land (Binic is a small port on the Britain North coas...
Ruggero Leoncavallo: Prologue de Pagliacci (l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France)
The scene takes place an August afternoon in a village of Calabria. In Pagliacci, the author uses the “mise en abyme” process of the dramatic action: The fiction get mixed up with reality when one of the actors takes advantage of the play to settle accounts with his wife’s lover. The music is compos...
Run The Jewels at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris
In 2015, Run The Jewels won were showered with awards and acclaim for their rich and intelligent hip-hop. On stage, Killer Mike and El-P are the kind of duo they don’t make any more: they pass the ball, bouncing flows back and forth with incredible skill. It's good, it's funny, it's powerful.
Saint Paul And The Broken Bones (SoirÉe de Poche)
Brilliant musicians who don’t need to rehearse, and who play by instinct.
A singer with a tireless voice, 1m70 of vocal power, capable of reaching the highest and lowest notes, apparently without the slightest effort, gives us his dance moves from another century with a groove worthy of the Sixties ...
Schubert, Quatuor N°14 “Death and the Maiden”
The Austrian Franz Schubert had a very short life (he died at 31 years of syphilis) but composed about 600 Lieder! Death and the maiden was written in 1817, words are from a poem by Matthias Claudius. This theme is taken from the Greek and Roman mythology (eg the Rape of Proserpina), which opposes t...
