Poulenc: La Voix humaine

Advantages: Good example of early 20th century French/European music. Cheap price
Disadvantages: Not distinct or ground-breaking enough

...--- INTRODUCTION --- -QUICK FACTS- Nationality: French Born: Paris 1899 Died: Paris 1963 Specialist genres: Stage works, concertos, piano music. Francis Poulenc had a relatively well-supported life, being born into a family of pharmaceutical manufacturers he never had to earn a living. Like many famous composers he began learning his skill at a very young age, at five he started the piano. He specifically tried not to in his learning process to be influenced by other major composers, so to keep his music as much his own as possible as stated by his self-description "I am a musician without a label". Influences which did affect him though were the immediate post-ww1 years which in certain parts of France had created a new atmosphere of hope and vision away from the horrors of war. Additionally the Parisian street life of cafe... Read review

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Advantages: Originality, melody, lyrics...
Disadvantages: no disadvantages...

...professionnellement permet au groupe de gravir un échelon supplémentaire au travers de toute la presse nationale qui ne tarie pas d'éloges, relevant toutes de l'originalité certaine de la musique du groupe et de la qualité et soin apportés à la composition. Musicalement, dans une veine peu explorée en France, Aquilon distille un Death Metal puissant, avec claviers, voix masculines et féminines, petites touches élèctro et ambiance très Dark. Aquilon a pour ligne directrice de fuir la musique qui se laisse deviner, accumule changements de rythmes et influences, les complexifie pour rendre la musique riche, suffisamment technique pour être variée et surtout moderne. L'ajout de légers samples par endroits dans les compositions souligne et renforce l'ambiance résolument Dark que le groupe reproduit sur scène Favorisant à présent l'écriture des textes en... Read review

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Advantages: In original French! Kasarova, Vargas, Furmansky
Disadvantages: They don't pronounce French well. A bit under-rehearsed

...La Favorite is one of 3 French grand opera written by the bel canto master Gaetano Donizetti (though it is often performed in Italian under the title 'La Favorita'). The story is based on Royer's and Vaez's play 'L'Ange de Nisida'. SYNOPSIS: The novice monk Fernand is dismissed from the monastery in Castile by his prior Balthazar due to his attraction to an unknown beauty whose hand he had touched during a service. Fernand takes off to Leon, where he meets the courtesan Inez and her colleagues in the service of Leonor de Guzman, the mistress of King Alphonse XI, who turns out to be the unknown beauty he met in Castile). Having mistaken her for a royalty, Fernand joins the army vowing to earn glory in battle deserving of her attention. After showing his valor in a victorious battle with the Moors, Fernand is praised by the happy... Read review

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