Performing Arts
Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Book III
Paul Agnew’s monumental project to perform all eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals in just four years seems as ambitious as performing the complete works of Bach! A bold challenge, like the work itself. Contained within these eight Books are the foundations of modern music, from the end of the Ren...
Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Book IV
Paul Agnew’s monumental project to perform all eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals in just four years seems as ambitious as performing the complete works of Bach! A bold challenge, like the work itself. Contained within these eight Books are the foundations of modern music, from the end of the Ren...
NUITS DE L’ÂME, A LITERARY CONCERT
This programme presents 9 Nocturnes for piano by Frédéric Chopin and a work by Robert Schumann, performed by pianist Brigitte Engerer and preceded by the poems of Jean-Yves Clément (extracts from Nuits de l'Âme, published by Cherche Midi). Jean-Yves Clément is a writer and a festival organiser and a...
SOLSBERG Festival, Sol Gabetta : César Franck, Claude Debussy
Having perfected her art in Europe, the Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta is one of the greatest classical musicians in the world.
An exceptional artist, she is also the artistic director of the Solsberg Festival.
Concert recorded as part of the 7th Solsberg Festival in Olsberg, Switzerl...
SOLSBERG Festival, Sol Gabetta : Ravel, Fauré, Dvorák
Having perfected her art in Europe, the Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta is one of the greatest classical musicians in the world.
An exceptional artist, she is also the artistic director of the Solsberg Festival.
Concert recorded as part of the 7th Solsberg Festival in Olsberg, Switzerl...
SOLSBERG Festival, Sol Gabetta : Schubert, Beethoven
Having perfected her art in Europe, the Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta is one of the greatest classical musicians in the world.
An exceptional artist, she is also the artistic director of the Solsberg Festival.
Concert recorded as part of the 7th Solsberg Festival in Olsberg, Switzerl...
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Opera "The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini, after the eponymous play by Beaumarchais.
Recorded at the Bordeaux Opera, directed by Joan FONT and directed by Paolo OLMI, with the Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra, conducted by Paolo OLMI, and the Choir of the Opéra national d...
THE RITE OF SPRING
Triple tribute to Igor Stravinsky in the form of a pirouette by Jean-Claude Gallotta: the choreographer has chosen to focus on the first version of the work, which he considers one of the best, being rough, unaffected, devoid of ornamental embellishment and directed and recorded by Igor Stravinsky h...
JAZZED OUT : ONE CITY, ONE JAZZ
The black and white photograph of a jazz pianist smoking his cigarette stays still.
KIDAM and MEZZO are working together to create and broadcast improvise live sessions, that push conventional jazz aside.
Sketching a scene at the very top of modernity, we are looking for a music without any limits...
Beethoven, String quarter N° 9, in C major, op.59 n°3
One of Beethoven's most beautiful string quartets performed by exceptional musicians.
Composed in 1806 and published in January 1808, it is the last of the three quartets dedicated to Prince Andrey Razumovsky, whose name it bears.
This quartet was composed during the very productive year of 1806, wh...
