Debiutancki album obdarzonej ciepłym i zarazem niepokojącym głosem wokalistki Alison Goldfrapp, znanej ze współpracy m.in. z Tricky’m czy Orbital. Artystka, z pomocą kompozytora Willa Gregory, stworzyła miksturę kabaretu a la Brecht, klasycznych, orkiestrowych aranżacji, soundtrackowych klimatów, french popu w stylu Gainsbourga oraz nowoczesnej elektroniki.
Tracklista: CD 1 French Suite, For Keyboard No. 1 In D Minor, BWV 812 (BC L19). 1. Allemande 2. Courante 3. Sarabande 4. Menuet 1 & 2 5. Gigue French Suite, For Keyboard No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 813 (BC L20). 6. Allemande 7. Courante 8. Sarabande 9. Air 10. Menuet 11. Gigue French Suite, For Keyboard No. 3 In B Minor, BWV 814 (BC L21). 12. Allemande 13. Courante 14. Sarabande 15. Anglaise 16. Menuet & Trio 17. Gigue French Suite, For Keyboard No. 4 In E Flat Major, BWV 815 (BC L22). 18. Allemande 19. Courante 20. Sarabande 21. Gavotte 22. Air 23. Menuet 24. Gigue CD 2 French Suite, For Keyboard No. 5 In G Major, BWV 816 (BC L23). 1. Allemande 2. Courante 3. Sarabande 4. Gavotte 5. Bourrée 6. Loure 7. Gigue French Suite, For Keyboard No. 6 In E Major, BWV 817 (BC L24). 8. Allemande 9. Courante 10. Sarabande 11. Gavotte 12. Menuet Polonais 13. Bourrée 14. Gigue 15. Petit Menuet Suite For Keyboard In E Flat Major, BWV 819a. 16. Allemande 17. Allemande (BWV 819 A) 18. Courante 19. Sarabande 20. Bourée 21. Menuet 1 & 2 Suite For Keyboard In A Minor, BWV 818 (BC L25). 22. Allemande 23. Courante 24. Sarabande Simple 25. Sarabande Double 26. Gigue
Tracklista:1. Chororo2. Addis Abeba3. Lagrimas Negras4. Daddy's Coming Home5. Show Me6. Blue Genes For Richard7. Diego8. RhadaKrishna9. Steps10. Play Is The Work Of Children11. Dailer Dailer12. M & MMuzycy:Asan Rasid - trumpetAleksandar Sekulovski - drumsJasar Rasid - tapan drum, tarabukaIvan Bejkov - acoustic and electric bassVilhen Memedov - tubaTehamana Skenderovska - vocals, trumpetDjijan Emin - french horn, melodica, organToni Kitanovski - guitars, vocalsGościnnie:Bob Stewart, Aleksandar Serafimov, Mersiha Shuri, Paguito Hechavarria, Oscar Salas, Vladimir Lazarevski
Tracklista:1. Cccan't You See2. Spooky3. The Spaceship Is Over There4. Blue (Love Mix)5. Fetish6. Take Me Now7. Always Hoping8. 8.15 to Nowhere/Great Balls of Fire9. Cccan't You See (Exxxx-tended Re-mixxx)10. Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix)11. Cccan't You See (Re-mixxx)12. Cccan't You See (7" Version)13. Cccan't You See (7" DJ Mix/Master Mix)14. Fetish (Extended Mix/feteeesh)15. Take Me Now (Extended Version)16. I Confess
The Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) spent the last 35 years of his life in Dresden, first as a double bass player and then as composer for the court, writing primarily for the church. Zelenka's music is always fresh and creative, often surprising in its sudden harmonic turns and demanding instrumentations. His compositions are marvellous examples of a subtle blend of Italian and French manners with a most distinctive personal style. Fluency of declamation and wide phrases with elegantly shaped melodies in his choral works are clearly Italianate. French influence is seen in the formal organization of the music into relatively short and contrasting sections. One of the most impressive and most intellectually profound of Zelenka’s late works is a mass in E minor ZWV 18, composed in 1739 and named Missa votiva by the composer. Its structure – the main parts of the mass are subdivided into smaller sections – allows for a wide variety of scoring, including different configurations of soloists, solo arias, chorus alone, and chorus with solo singers. Zelenka also fully employs his orchestra to drive and guide and support the vocal parts.
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)La Traviata. Opera w czterech aktach z prologiem. Libretto oparte na Damie Kameliowej Aleksandra Dumasa. Powstała w 1853 roku. Akcja rozgrywa się w Paryżu w drugiej połowie XIX wieku. Opowiada historię miłości pełnej zawiłości i nieszczęśc wynikających z konwenansów. Główna bohaterka - kurtyzana Violetta Valery poświęca się dla miłości, kiedy jej ukochany powraca historia nie może już zakończyć się happy endem.Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Violetta in La traviata in a new production by the French director Jean-François Sivadier at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This DVD captures her intense performance in the company of American tenor Charles Castronovo as Alfredo and French baritone Ludovic Tézier as his father, Giorgio Germont. “Her theatrical impact is devastating,” wrote the Financial Times.With this new production of La traviata at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival, Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Verdi’s Violetta, a pinnacle of the soprano repertoire. She made her debut in the role in 2009 at the Santa Fe Festival in the US, and subsequently sang Violetta in Japan. Dessay’s 2011-12 season will include La traviata at the Vienna State Opera (in this Aix-en-Provence production by French theatre and opera director Jean-François Sivadier) and the New York Metropolitan.Violetta makes tremendous demands on a singer, both vocally and dramatically, and signals Dessay’s transition from lighter coloratura roles to the more full-blooded lyric repertoire. “I’m tired of playing weeping girls,” she told the French magazine Télé 7 Jours, “Violetta is a real woman. That makes a nice change!” The change was clearly successfully achieved: describing Dessay’s performance, the Financial Times wrote that “her theatrical impact is devastating”.Sivadier’s production was staged in the open air, in Aix-en-Provence’s exquisite Théâtre de l'Archevêché with its huge spiral staircases, medieval arches and 18th-century wings. The stage décor was minimal, the simple costumes evoked the 1940s or 1950s, and the prime focus was on intense characterisation.“One left the theatre emotionally knocked out, but fulfilled,” wrote the magazine Télérama, describing the production as “a magisterial success ... It would be hard to think of a couple more ideally young and beautiful than Natalie Dessay and Charles Castronovo [the stylish American tenor singing Alfredo].” The writer went on to praise “the art with which Natalie Dessay embodies and transfigures the character,” concluding by saying that: “La traviata – literally, the woman gone astray – has never found her way better than at Aix-en-Provence this summer.”Le Figaro found that “Natalie Dessay overwhelms with her fragility and commitment … The singers have the roles in their every fibre … the characters exist with a palpable intensity,” and remarked on the refinement of Louis Langrée’s conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra: “Have we ever heard so many shadings and nuances in Verdi’s orchestration?”The role of Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s father, is taken by the superb French baritone Ludovic Tézier. In Act II, set at Violetta’s country house near Paris, he sings the touching aria “Di Provenza”, in which he urges his son to return home to his family’s native Provence. In this case, Alfredo would not have far to travel!
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The collections of airs published in France by Ballard between 1608 and 1643 contain 17 airs on Italian words, of which six are in the polyphonic collections, six are for voice with lute tablature and five for voice with guitar tablature. Taking account of variants and different versions, polyphonic or monodic, of the same pieces, we are left with ten texts – a rather insignificant group amid a repertoire of over 2,000 French airs. The present recording manages to include all these ten texts, thereby presenting almost all the Italian airs published by French composers during Louis XIII’s reign. The musicians of Il Festino have interspersed these airs with a number of instrumental pieces and songs to Spanish texts of the same period. All the Italian airs are by three of the foremost French composers of the time, each of whom moved in court and salon circles.
Tracklista: CD 1 1. The Octave Doctors And The Crystal Machine 2. Other Side Of The Sky 3. A Sprinkling Of Clouds 5. Midnight 4. Surf 6. Synthese Intemporel 7. Passage Sur La Cite (Des Revelations) 8. New Jerusalem 9. Lighthouse CD 2 1. Prelude 2. Who's Gonna Win The War 3. A Return To The Clouds 4. Waiting For Nati 5. The Tide Of The Century 6. Byzantium Dancing 7. Jacuzzi Surfing 8. Floating 9. Absent Friends 10. Byzance CD 3 1. Ionic Clouds 2 ("The Birth Of Crystal Machine") 2. Psychedelic Springs ("The Birth Of Crystal Machine") 3. Forteresse/Crystal Mirrors To Infinity ("The Birth Of Crystal Machine") 4. Forgotten Tapes 1 5. Forgotten Tapes 2 6. Forgotten Tapes 3 7. The Tide Of The Century DVD 1. Generator (Laser Beam) [French TV 20th April 1979) 2. Passage Pour La Cité Des Révélations (French TV 20th April 1979) 3. Lighthouse (French TV 20th April 1979) 4. New Jerusalem (French TV 20th April 1979)
Sudden Infant to szwajcarski zespół Industrial-Dada-Noise-Rock z siedzibą w Berlinie. Ich album "Wolfli's Nightmare" został wyprodukowany przez Roli Mosimanna (Swans, The Young Gods, Wiseblood) i został bardzo dobrze przyjęty przez krytyków i publiczność. W przeszłości Sudden Infant koncertował z Sleaford Mods i grał u boku Wolfa Eyes, Bena Frosta, Merzbow, Dereka Baileya, Jima O'Rourke'a, Thurstona Moore'a i wielu innych. Album "Buddhist Nihilism" z 2018 roku z pewnością utrwali zdolność zespołu do dziwacznych i intensywnych kompozycji pełnych humoru, mocnych rytmów i skręconych struktur. Wspaniale zmiksowany przez Martina Siewerta (Radian) w swoim studiu w Wiedniu. "Jeden z najlepszych prowokatorów hałasu w Europie!" - Matthew Kosloff/ Skyscraper Magazine "Fucking awesome band! Miałem szczęście zobaczyć ich set na żywo w klubie 100. Killer!" - Steve Crittall / The Godfathers Tracklista: 1. Rationality 2. Hong Kong Nursery 3. In This Moment 4. Maybe You're Right 5. 228 6. Tourists 7. Puppet Master 8. 100 Word Mantra 9. George Clooney 10. Brownsville Texas 11. French Douche 12. Somniphobia II