Marcelo Raúl Álvarez is an Argentine lyric tenor who achieved international success starting in the mid-1990s, and at the end of the twentieth century, become an international opera star. This release from Sony Classical features the works of Massenet, Offenbach, Donizetti, Gounod, Verdi, Meyerbeer, and Rossini.

If you like the GUITAR or MUSIC in general, you need to get this mans music. This is an astonishing hybrid that works 99% of the time. The combination of BLUES and FRENCH / ARABIC song structures and lyrics is astonishingly listenable and I find myself dancing around the livingroom playing air guitar and emoting in a language I don't understand.

"Marina Kaye fait un grand retour avec son album « Heavenbound » Sur la plupart des titres de l’album, elle travaille avec son équipe de départ. A l’écriture et la composition Nina Woodford et Mathias Andermo (Wollo). Seuls deux titres ont été écrits et composés par d’autres. Nous retrouvons Tony Esterly et Autumn Rowe sur le deuxième single “Why do the bad things feel good”. Deux nouveaux auteurs compositeurs sont à mentionner sur le titre « The Beast » : Justin Gray et Shridhar Solanki. Ce panel de collaboration permet de retrouver l’univers Dark Pop de Martina Kaye avec des productions françaises par Meya Music qui savent si bien mettre en valeur sa voix exceptionnelle."

Plaza Francia is an international musical project of a trio of famous musicians made up of Catherine Ringer (from French band Les Rita Mitsouko) as main vocalist singing compositions from Argentine Eduardo Makaroff and Swiss Christoph H. Müller both from Gotan Project. Their 2014 release "A New Tango Song Book" with vocal interpretations of Latin music by Catherine Ringer came with critical acclaim and a commercial success in France also charting in Belgium.

Poulenc the miniaturist par excellence burst into public view, fully-formed in his late teens, emerging flamboyantly into the artistic swirl of 1920s Paris. His fabulously inventive, quirky and colourful approach to writing for chamber ensemble and voice comes vividly to life in this set of early works which capture all of his youthful elegance, wit, and occasionally sardonic humour.

Mylène's third remix album Remix XL contains 21 songs, including classics such as Désenchantée and Je te rends ton amour as well as new songs such as Oui mais… non and L'ame dans l'eau.

A musical journey through Renaissance Europe via pieces that were highly popular and whose melodies were reused and varied by some of the best composers of the time.

Danse encore : c'est un refus de l'immobile et de l'essoufflement. Le titre du neuvième album de Clarika traduit un geste d'obstination, un désir, le voeu de rester en mouvement. Danser encore, même si le sol tremble. Sans frein, danser au-dessus de l'anxiété générale et des petits tracas. Danser avec les figures familières, et les nouvelles. Faire valser nos intimes et en reconnaître la poésie, même simple, même inaperçue.

Artiste pluridisciplinaire, Nicole Croisille passe allègrement de la chanson au cinéma et de la comédie musicale au théâtre. L'iinterprète de l'immortel « Chabadabada » d'Un Homme et une femme (1966) a multiplié les succès au cours des années 1970 : « Une femme avec toi », « Téléphone moi », « Parlez-moi de lui (Il ne pense qu'à toi) » ou « Les Uns et les autres » ont marqué les esprits par sa voix chaude et puissante. En 2006, elle rend hommage à Claude Nougaro dans un spectacle et le disque Nougaro, le jazz et moi.

Artiste pluridisciplinaire, Nicole Croisille passe allègrement de la chanson au cinéma et de la comédie musicale au théâtre. L'iinterprète de l'immortel « Chabadabada » d'Un Homme et une femme (1966) a multiplié les succès au cours des années 1970 : « Une femme avec toi », « Téléphone moi », « Parlez-moi de lui (Il ne pense qu'à toi) » ou « Les Uns et les autres » ont marqué les esprits par sa voix chaude et puissante. En 2006, elle rend hommage à Claude Nougaro dans un spectacle et le disque Nougaro, le jazz et moi.

Hans, le joueur de flûte is a ravishing opera, loosely based on the legend of Hamelin’s pied piper popularized notably by the Grimm Brothers, composed by Louis Ganne and premiered in Monte-Carlo in 1906. Rarely recorded, its best rendition is undoubtedly this beautiful 1967 performance with the best French singers of their time, including Liliane Berton and the amazing baritone Michel Dens in the title-role.

Marie Hubert – Fille du Roy is the latest recording by the renowned Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin. This intriguing album brings the folklores of Quebec and France to life using song to recount the experiences of Marie Hubert, one of the Filles du Roy (the King’s daughters) intended to help populate New France. Recruited as one of almost 800 marriageable French young women, Marie crossed the Atlantic at the end of the program, which was launched in 1670 by the Roi-Soleil, King Louis XIV, and Jean Talon, his intendant in New France.

Kerstin Haberecht (saxophone) and Lukas Roos (guitar) want to release their debut album "Maiden Flight" and are happy to have found a great partner with Unit Records from Switzerland.

One of French pop's most poetic songwriters, Georges Brassens was also a highly acclaimed and much-beloved performer in his own right. Not only a brilliant manipulator of language and a feted poet in his own right, Brassens was also renowned for his subversive streak, satirizing religion, class, social conformity, and moral hypocrisy with a wicked glee. Yet beneath that surface was a compassionate concern for his fellow man, particularly the disadvantaged and desperate. His personal politics were forged during the Nazi occupation, and while his views on freedom bordered on anarchism, his songs expressed those convictions more subtly than those of his contemporary, Léo Ferré. Though he was a skilled songwriter, Brassens had little formal musical training, and he generally kept things uncomplicated – simple melodies and spare accompaniment from a bass and second guitar. Along with Jacques Brel, he became one of the most unique voices on the French cabaret circuit, and exerted a tremendous influence on many other singers and songwriters of the postwar era.

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!