Performing Arts
JORDI SAVALL : ORIENT-OCCIDENT (Fontfroide 2006)
Dialogue of Christian, Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian music from around the Mediterranean.
Concert recorded at Fontfroide Abbey on August 10, 2006
Performers: Montserrat Figueras and Ustad Mahwash (vocals), Ensemble Radio Kaboul, Hespérion XXI…
Director: Jordi Savall
ISRAEL Al...
MOZART REQUIEM – Jean-Charles Gil
Mozart Requiem continues in the tradition the Ballet d’Europe has made its own, affirming the precious and all too often threatened nature of life within the modern world. It thus seeks out life in its darkest depths: death. For the choreographer, the future is built from memories of the past, not i...
OLIVIER MANOURY QUARTET LIVE AT NEW MORNING, Paris
French musician and bandoneonist Olivier Manoury, has always been drawn to trying new things and works with a wide variety of musicians.
This time, he’s appearing with a fully electric quartet: bandoneón, bass, piano, electric piano (Fender-Rhodes) and drums. Influenced by tango, funk, Piazzolla ...
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY & the ENSEMBLE MATHEUS : Vivaldi & Haendel
Concert given by the ensemble MATHEUS under the direction of Jean-Christophe SPINOSI and counter-tenor Philippe JAROUSSKY who performs operatic arias by Vivaldi and Handel.
Recorded February 2, 2006 at the Chapel of the Trinity in Lyon.
With Laurence PAUGAM, first violin, Jean-Marc G...
PORTRAIT : Frank Braley
Meeting with the pianist Frank BRALEY who looks back on his career, embellishing it with a few anecdotes: his first piano lessons with his mother, his first teachers, his entry into the Paris Conservatory at the age of 18, the international competition of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium in 1991. He then ...
PORTRAIT: François Frédéric Guy
Portrait of the pianist François-Frédéric GUY, who talks about his training and his artistic journey, the recording of a record, his meetings with conductors and composers, his relationships with the pianist Nicolas ANGELICH, of his work with young students, of his desire to concentrate his repertoi...
PORTRAIT: Sergio Tiempo
Portrait of the Venezuelan pianist Sergio TIEMPO who says he owes his vocation as a concert performer to Martha Argerich.This documentary is made up of archive images including personal archives, an interview with Sergio TIEMPO and some interpretations by the pianist, as well as extracts from concer...
Corey Cerovcek & Alexandre Tharaud
Concert given on March 11, 2002 by violinist Corey CEROVCEK and pianist Alexandre THARAUD, at Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris.
- Sonata for violin and piano in A major by César FRANCK.
- Brilliant Fantasy on Faust after Henrik WIENIAWSKY's opera Gounod op.20.
- Liebesleid by Fritz K...