Various / Mixed by Dimitri From Paris
Dimitri From Paris in the House of Love [ Defected Records / 3 CD - released 28/Feb/2006 ] The French ambassador of good house grooves returns with a triple disc compilation that takes his obsession with funk, soul and disco to another level. And a very French one, at that... |
FROMENTAL HALEVY
Halevy: La Reine de Chypre [The Queen of Cyprus] Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Étienne Dupuis / Flemish Radio Choir & Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 20/Sep/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2019 WINNER - Opera |
BERG
Wozzeck (Complete opera recorded in 1971) Walter Berry, Isabel Strauss, Fritz Uhl / Paris Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Pierre Boulez [ Sony Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Wozzeck is today established as one of the greatest operas of the twentieth century although public reaction was divided at the start. |
W.A. MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 3 (with Paganini - Violin Concerto No. 1 (recorded 1934-1952) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Paris Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Boult / George Enescu / Pierre Monteux [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 12/Jan/2007 ] Not often does a recording change the public perception of a piece of music and its composer, but it happened when the 18-year-old Yehudi Menuhin set down this recording of Paganini’s First Concerto in Paris in May 1934. |
MENDELSSOHN / LALO
Violin Concerto / Symphonie Espagnole (with Chausson: Poeme) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Paris Symphony Orchestra / Orchestre des Concerts Colonne [ Naxos Historic Great Violinists / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] |
IANNIS XENAKIS
Eonta / Metastasis / Pithoprakta Yuji Takahashi (piano) / Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris / Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F. [ Le Chant du Monde / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Iannis Xenakis, who died a few years ago, was an uncompromising modernist radical. A professionally-trained mathematician who based his music on research into probability theory and advanced computer modelling techniques, Xenakis developed a musical... |
BERLIOZ
Beatrice et Benedict (Complete opera) [Recorded in 1981] Yvonne Minton, Placido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] 'Minton's beautiful voice and her warm understanding of Berlioz's style are again evident … Daniel Barenboim conducts with enthusiasm.' Gramophone |