Performing Arts
The little pleasures of Seicento
The beginning of the 17th century in Italy saw the emergence of many instrumental forms, testimony of the emancipation of instruments in relation to vocal music.
The Italian language illustrates this phenomenon in the terms cantata, sonata and canzone.
This programme enables us to discover the canzo...
The Musketeers at the Convent
Opérette in 3 acts by Louis Varney
Libretto by Jules Prével & Paul Ferrier adapted by Jérôme Deschamps
based on a vaudeville by St-Hilaire and Dupont entitled "L'habit ne fait pas le moine"
Created in Paris, at the Bouffes-Parisiens, on March 1880
"Musketeers! In a convent!", Residents not that ho...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIII
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIII, who chose the site and built the first castle, was a musician and a good dancer in the Court Ballets. He favored the development of royal m...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIV
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIV established the Comedy-Ballet then the lyric tragedy and the academies. He gave an unequaled scope to sacred music and brought theater to the hear...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XV
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
With Louis XV it was the century of Voltaire and Rameau who became passionate about the Arts, and the King continued the tradition by being fond of par...
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...
