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Faces of classical music
2020-12-06 04:29:00
Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor – Bruno Philippe, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach (HD 1080p)
[…] prestigious venues and festivals in France (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Philharmonie de Paris, Auditorium du Louvre, La Grange au Lac, Festival de Radio France Montpellier-Occitanie etc.) and on the international scene, including the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Teatro Colón in Bogotá and Bavarian Radio in Munich. In the concerto repertory, Bruno Philippe has the opportunity to play with such renowned orchestras as the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, the Dijon-Bourgogne Orchestra under Gabor Takács-Nagy, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Münchener Kammerorchester, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. Among the prestigious soloists with whom he has appeared are Gary Hoffman, Tabea Zimmermann, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, David Kadouch, Renaud Capuçon, Jérôme Ducros, Tanguy de Williencourt, Antoine Tamestit, Sarah Nemtanu, Lise Berthaud, Timothy Ridout, Stephen Waarts, Kian Soltani, Christophe Coin, Jérôme Pernoo, Raphaël […]
2020-06-29 06:39:48
Politics, Poetry & Personal Interest: Lully, King Louis XIV and the invention of French opera
[…] conducting staff during a performance of his Te Deum to celebrate Louis XIV's recovery from surgery. Lully refused to have his leg amputated so he could still dance. This resulted in gangrene propagating through his body and ultimately infecting the greater part of his brain, causing his death, Lully's Armide at the Palais-Royal Opera House in 1761watercolour by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Philippe Quinault Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen; the piece succeeded, and Quinault followed it up, but he also read for the bar. In 1660, when he married a widow with money, he bought himself a place in the Cour des Comptes. Then he tried tragedies with more success. But in 1671 he contributed to the singular miscellany of Psyché, in which Pierre Corneille and Molière also had a hand, and which was set to […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-12-26 18:30:00
“Musiques du silence” – Guillaume Coppola plays Federico Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Frédéric Chopin, Toru Takemitsu, Claude Debussy & Enrique Granados (HD 1080p)
French pianist Guillaume Coppola plays works by Federico Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Frédéric Chopin, Toru Takemitsu, Claude Debussy and Enrique Granados. The recital was recorded live at Jacques Prévert Theatre and Cinema, in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France, on December 1, 2015.✻After five original and unanimously acclaimed CDs, Guillaume Coppola (b. 1979, Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France) has now "confirmed his prominent place at the heart of the young generation" (Diapason). In addition to a verve and an expressive depth that make each of his performances keenly anticipated, his authenticity and simplicity have won the hearts of music-lovers.His eclectic and eloquent discography – encompassing Liszt (2009), Granados (2012), Poulenc (2013, with baritone Marc Mauillon), Schubert (2014) and Brahms-Schubert (2016, four hands with Hervé Billaut) – has been enthusiastically welcomed by the world's press, with every release garnering the highest recognition: Diapason d'Or, ffff from Télérama, Selection from Le Monde, Les Echos, the Académie Charles Cros, five stars from BBC Music Magazine, […]