LA DOLCE VOLTA

Against the backdrop of it's decors, ballet offers itself up as a spectacle, arousing admiration and enchantment. In the early twentieth century, from the Palais Garnier to the Bolshoi, from the...

For his first-ever recording of music by Chopin, Fran?ois-Fr?d?ric Guy has chosen a 1905 Pleyel piano, a sublime instrument restored at the workshop of Pianos Balleron. Recorded in the splendid...

Grigny / Isoir,Andre Complete Works For Organ CD

2023 release from the French violinist.

2023 release from the French violinist.

Eug?ne Ysaáe was one of the leading figures in the violin world at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and a source of inspiration for subsequent generations. Towards the end of his...

To link Debussy with the compositions of Tristan Murail is to place musical evolution in a historical logic of sonic upheavals, says the pianist Fran?ois-Fr?d?ric Guy. Fascinated by idioms that...

Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano laid the foundations of twentieth-century musical thought. Under the fingers of Gary Hoffman and David Selig, these five monuments of musical history,...

Hoffman,Gary Bloch & Elgar: Cello Works CD

Scriabin, the creator of unique sound worlds, initially followed in the footsteps of Chopin. Jean-Philippe Collard explores this Romantic vein by shedding new light on his Piano Concerto, a delicate...

This is the story of two young musicians who met during the Coronavirus lockdown. Daniel Hope invited French violist Adrien La Marca to appear on his Arte program, Hope@home, last December. For the...

The minimalist movement, which first appeared in the United States in the mid-1960s, was for a long time closely associated with the avant-garde, but over the years it has gained a much wider...