Louis Gasté et Line Renaud avaient une profonde admiration pour Django Reinhardt dont on célèbre les 70 ans de la disparition cette année.

Bahamas was a short-lived French group from Paris, which released one album for Polydor and that's because the musicians involved were all members of famous singer's Christophe backing group. These were Patrice Tison on guitar, Didier Batard on bass), Dominique Perrier on various keyboards and Roger Rizitelli on drums. "When the musicians of Christophe, Alain Bashung, Gérard Manset, Véronique Sanson, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jean-Michel Jarre got together to record a unique and poetic work where the shadows of the great artists for whom they perform hover strangely overhead."

The Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and its Artistic and Music Director Kazuki Yamada, interprets the now ‘traditional’ recorded pairing of two sumptuous, escapist French song cycles: Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Ravel’s Shéhérazade.

Jean Cocteau wrote the Beautiful Indifferent in 1940 for an actress Edith Piaf. For the first time, the Virêvolte ensemble puts it to music and commissions Jean-Marie Machado, with the support of the Cocteau Committee, to create a tailor-made jazz opera. It will be directed by Emmanuel Olivier and premiered in December 2021 at the Center of the Banks of the Marne and then performed throughout France.

In 1958 Poulenc composed La voix humaine, a one-act opera for soprano and orchestra, based on the monodrama of the same name, written for the Comédie-Française by his friend Jean Cocteau. In this staging of the end of an amorous relationship, we hear only the woman’s side of a final telephone conversation with the man who has abandoned her. The orchestra in this innovative work is used not only to unify the composition, but also to reveal what the voice, laid bare by a moving parlé-chanté style, does not say. Fiançailles pour rire and Chemins de l’amour, usually for voice and piano, but presented here in an orchestrated version by one of our finest conductors, Frédéric Chaslin, completes this eloquent rendition of works of a bittersweetness that Poulenc transcends like no other.

Tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen concludes his trilogy dedicated to hautes-contre with "Legros, haute-contre de Gluck". Joseph Legros (1739-1793) was a singer at the Paris Opéra, renowned for his extraordinary musical abilities, wide range and brilliant high notes.

The Choir of St George’s Chapel, world famous through its royal patronage, is one of this country’s foremost, participating in daily services throughout the year at its Windsor Castle home. Here the choir performs a wide range of music appropriate to the seasons of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany.

When French melody, one of the most subtle of art forms, meets the most concise forms of Japanese poetry, the Haiku and the Waka, the result is a mesmerising kaleidoscope of colour. The scenes described in these ancient Japanese poems have inspired the imagination of French composers for over a century. It is the emotional force that emanates from these writings that is the primary reason for the genesis of this CD of Franco-Japanese melodies.

Tout feu, tout bleu. S’il fallait dépeindre le nouvel album de Jil Caplan avec des couleurs, ce serait celles-là. Feu comme le brasier de la colère et l’incendie de la passion, bleu comme l’azur infini et les meurtrissures de l’âme. La braise et le blues, la flamme et le spleen. Il conviendrait aussi d’y ajouter sensualité et mélancolie, tournoyant dans un tourbillon d’émotions. Comme un soleil noir, aussi sombre qu’incandescent. Sur les cendres danser, pour retrouver la joie, l’envol, pour revivre tout simplement. Après la pop électro de Derrière la porte et le jazz manouche d’Imparfaite, ses précédents albums, Jil Caplan revient à ses éternelles amours, un retour aux sources qui l’ont toujours nourrie : le folk rock à guitares, les ballades charnelles, les harmonies subtiles, quelque part entre Paul McCartney et Jeff Buckley.

This is Chilly Gonzales' first album written and performed in the language of Molière and Bangalter.

The Ensemble Esquisses is the result of a shared desire to explore the repertoire for equal voices, with the aim of discovering (or rediscovering) composers (men and women) and little-known works of the modern and contemporary periods.

The French tenor, Cyrille Dubois, returns to his favourite period in music: Baroque. Pursuing his mission as a trailblazer, he has teamed up with the Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles to create a recital aimed at reviving little-known treasures of the Eighteenth Century French operatic repertoire - several of the pieces are recorded here for the first time.

Après un premier album remarquable, Lena Deluxe, musicienne accomplie, décide de partir autour du monde. Le plus sûr moyen de ne pas se répéter. Avec « Santaï », elle fait bien plus que cela.

A.M.O.U.R est le neuvième album studio de Calogero qui sort le 8 septembre 2023.

Saint Privat is a story that began at a summer wedding in Vienna in 2003. Among the guests was electronic musician and producer Klaus Waldeck (known for his album Ballroom Stories). He was pretty impressed with the francophile singer Valerie Sajdik, who performed in the wedding band. Waldeck invited Valerie to his studio the following week and voila - Saint Privat was born. Their first track was a cover of Henry Mancini's composition "Nothing to Lose", which sort of became the unspoken motto of their collaboration.