What if the tour de force of French opera in the Age of Enlightenment was Scylla et Glaucus? At the age of 50, the famous violinist Leclair decided to write his first operatic piece, investing irrepressible energy in it. The drama is unrelenting: the nymph Scylla spurns the advances of the Demigod Glaucus, who seeks out the sorceress Circe to cast a spell on her; Circe is in love with Glaucus, drives Scylla to madness and turns her into a deadly rock… An infernal scene, an ocean storm and final cataclysm are employed to give striking relief to this trio of unappeased love, the effusions of irresistible beauty. The conductor and violinist Stefan Plewniak conducts a glorious stage of soloists in the eddies of vengeance!

Dans la lignée de l'album "Thérèse, vivre d'amour", Natasha St Pier retrace aujourd'hui la vie de Jeanne d'Arc.Reconnue comme l'une des premières icônes féministes à travers le monde, Jeanne d'Arc a connu une destinée exceptionnelle. Elle demeure depuis toujours une source d'inspiration et un modèle résolument moderne par le message qu'elle incarne.Thérèse de Lisieux, l'une des plus grandes figures spirituelles et mystiques à travers le monde, fut aussi lune des premières à se passionner pour cette héroïne française, allant jusqu'à écrire une poésie et deux pièces de théâtre en hommage à Jeanne d'Arc.Natasha Saint Pier est aujourd'hui le trait d'union reliant ces deux saintes, ces soeurs intimes, ces deux figures inspirantes.Avec la force des mots de Thérèse de Lisieux, sur des chansons écrites et composées sur mesure par Véronique Sanson, Lionel Florence, ou Jacques Vénéruso, Natasha St Pier raconte l'incroyable destin de Jeanne d'Arc dans un album exceptionnel qui sortira le 30 septembre.

In 1743, two years before Rameau's Platee, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people from Japan, making for plenty of offbeat and audacious dances and choruses. Musical beauty rubs shoulders with satirical and irreverent comedy. A choice work for Herve Niquet, who leads his Concert Spirituel with unparalleled energy!

French grand-opéra specialist Marc Minkowski has at last recorded Robert le Diable, a jewel of the genre. A triumph at its premiere in November 1831, it captivated contemporaries, and its influence stretched as far as Verdi and Wagner. An imposing international cast brings this repertory cornerstone to life: John Osborn portrays a Robert at once valiant and tender, Amina Edris reveals her full resources in the perilous role of Alice, while idiomatic performances by Nicolas Courjal, Erin Morley and Nico Darmanin complete a line-up offering the most vivid contrasts of tessitura.

Caterina Valente (París, 14 de enero de 1931) es una cantante, guitarrista, bailarina, comediante y actriz italiana nacida en Francia, Su repertorio musical es muy variado e incluye jazz, schlager, pop, musicales, chanson y bossa nova.

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques make a foray into the Romantic repertoire with this tribute to Pauline Viardot, who was not only the most influential singer of the nineteenth century, but also a pedagogue and composer, whose gifts, personality and incomparable aura made her one of the leading figures of French Romanticism. Together the mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti and Christophe Rousset retrace Pauline Viardot’s versatile career and, taking up her great roles, present a musical portrait of a unique performer, who was unanimously acclaimed by the audiences of her time.

After her triumph with the album Offenbach Colorature (ALPHA437), Jodie Devos has chosen to follow in the footsteps of one of her compatriots, the Belgian coloratura soprano Marie Cabel (1827 -1885), who at the age of twenty-six scored a phenomenal success in Adolphe Adam’s opéra-comique Le Bijou perdu , which she premiered in Paris.

Louis Chedid's repertoire revisited in piano-voice!

Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560) stormed onto the Parisian literary scene with the resounding avant-garde manifesto Défense et illustration de la langue française. Ronsard and Du Bellay are the great French poets of the sixteenth century, but while the former has been set to music hundreds of times, Du Bellay inspired only about thirty compositions

Recorded in Italy and Paris with a large orchestra, this collection of covers and one original number is dedicated to the missing brother of award-winning French jazz singer Anne Ducros.

Symphonie n°1, L’Idée Fixe, pour orchestre, Abstract pour orchestre avec violoncelle principal. L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo sous la direction du chef français Pascal Rophé livre deux œuvres nouvelles de Bruno Mantovani. Dans ses créations orchestrales (plus d’une vingtaine de partitions), le compositeur français avait déjà exploré de nombreuses possibilités expressives avant d’aborder le genre de la symphonie. Avec sa Symphonie n° 1, l’idée fixe (2015) – une référence à l’ « idée fixe » de la Symphonie fantastique de Berlioz – il questionne un procédé d’écriture ancestral (celui du retour d’une mélodie) pour en révéler toute sa modernité. Dans Abstract (2017), il renoue avec l’écriture soliste qui lui est chère, en confrontant le violoncelle (Marc Coppey) à l’ensemble de l’orchestre. Cette partition conçue pour le ballet chorégraphié par Jean-Christophe Maillot en avril 2018, pose avec élégance la possibilité d’une rencontre tangible entre la danse, les solistes instrumentistes et l’orchestre. Subsiste de cette dramaturgie, une musique jaillissante, sans cesse renouvelée et variée : « Bien qu’invisible et insaisissable, écrit le compositeur, ma musique est toujours liée à une perception du monde qui génère des émotions et donc du mouvement »

Classical music and jazz have reached their highest peaks through a perfect formation: the quartet. String quartet for one, quartet with trumpet (or saxophone), piano, double bass and drums for the other. Daring to bring these two poles together is David Enhco's bet with his new creation Family Tree.

The former lead singer of defunct award-winning French Rock band Skip The Use, Mat Bastard ventures out into solo waters on LOOV, the name of this debut album and the band. The songs are more personal than anything Bastard has done in the past and convey the strength of his convictions.

"Elle" is Marina Rebeka's new solo album, celebrating the diversity of the female roles in some of the greatest French Opera Arias of the canon.

French musician and actor Florent Pagny Florent Pagny returned in 2016 after an absence of more than two years with the release of his 13th studio album, "Habana", recorded in Cuba and featuring vocals in Spanish. Encore, the powerful lead single, is sung in both Spanish and French. On three tracks, Pagny is joined by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Prague. This Limited Edition features five bonus acoustic tracks.