Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…

Cet ouvrage, constitué d'entretiens, de reportages et de portraits parus entre 1991 et 2005 dans le magazine Vibrations, retrace en filigrane l'histoire de la musique populaire. Il propose pour la première fois en français des interviews en profondeur avec des personnalités de la musique jazz, blues ou soul : Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Astor Piazolla, Ornette Coleman, George Clinton, John McLaugh…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…

Par DUFOURT HUGUES. Entre 1752 et 1753, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo décora l'immense voûte du Grand Escalier d'Honneur de la Résidence de Würzburg, dont Balthasar Neumann, l'architecte-ingénieur des Schönborn, premier architecte du prince-évêque, avait assumé la construction. Après la paix d'Utrecht, le comte Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn ouvre l'un des plus importants chantiers de l'époque, ce…

Flamenco for Band. Par SPARKE PHILIP. Flamenco is a style of music, usually played on the guitar to accompany dancing and singing, that has its home in Andalusia in southern Spain. It has its roots in the years of Moorish rule of the region (711-1492) although the modern flamenco style dates only from the 18th century. La Caracola (which is the Spanish name for the triton sea shell) is an annual f…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…

Par DUFOURT HUGUES. Van Gogh écrit en 1888 : 'Le peintre de l'avenir, c'est un coloriste comme il n'y en a pas encore eu.' A cette époque, Van Gogh se sépare des impressionnistes, élargit leur intuition de la couleur et la simplifie. La forme-couleur se crée plutôt qu'elle ne se recompose dans notre vision. Van Gogh ne se soucie plus que de l'énergie de l'image. Le peintre séjourne en Arles où Gau…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…