Nora Gubisch (born Paris, 1971) is a French operatic mezzo-soprano. [1] [2] She is married to the pianist and conductor Alain Altinoglu.
Philippe Manoury is a French composer.
Michel Plasson is a French conductor.
Wuthering Heights is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann. He worked on it from 1943 to 1951. It is cast in a prologue, 4 acts, and an epilogue that repeats the music of the prologue. The opera was recorded in full by the composer in 1966, but it had to wait until April 2011, the centenary of the composer's birth, for a complete theatrical performance.
Thérèse is an opera in two acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie. While Thérèse remains among Massenet's lesser-known works, the piece has spawned a number of revivals and recordings.
Raphaël Sévère born 15 September 1994 in Rennes, is a French clarinettist and composer.
The Diapason d'Or is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.
Thierry Joseph-Louis Escaich is a French organist and composer.
Alain Altinoglu is a French conductor of Armenian descent, and an academic teacher. He is chief conductor of both the La Monnaie opera in Brussels and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and has conducted at international opera houses, halls and festivals. He teaches at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Stéphan Aubé is a French Music video director for classical music and pianist.
Giovanni Bellucci is an Italian pianist.
Romain Descharmes is a French classical pianist.
Jean-Christophe Keck is a French musicologist and conductor, born in Briançon, in 1964. He is particularly noted as a specialist in the works of Jacques Offenbach, and is the director of the complete critical edition in progress, named after both, Offenbach Edition Keck (OEK).
Chansons madécasses is a set of three exotic art songs by Maurice Ravel written in 1925 and 1926 to words from the poetry collection of the same name by Évariste de Parny.
Gérard Pesson is a French composer. Pesson studied musicology at the Sorbonne and is the composer of a number of award-winning works.
Les nuits d'été, Op. 7, is a song cycle by the French composer Hector Berlioz, setting six poems by Théophile Gautier. The cycle, completed in 1841, was originally for soloist and piano accompaniment. Berlioz orchestrated one of the songs in 1843 and did the same for the other five in 1856. The cycle was neglected for many years, but during the 20th century it became, and has remained, one of the composer's most popular works. Of the many recordings made in the 20th and 21st centuries, most are of the orchestrated version and are sung by a soprano or mezzo-soprano.
Stéphane Héaume is a French novelist. He also writes texts for composers of classical music. After several years spent in Cameroun and New York, he now lives in Paris.
Sylvie Oussenko is a contemporary French mezzo-soprano and writer.
Marie Devellereau is a French light lyric operatic soprano.
Alain Henri Bernaud was a French composer.
Deux mélodies hébraïques is a composition of two traditional Hebrew melodies for voice and piano by Maurice Ravel. It was written in 1914.