She directed 36 films, including the acclaimed “Cléo de 5 à 7.” Her cinematographic work earned her various honors, including the Palme of Honour and Academy Honorary Award
Category: May
May 2022: The New Album of The Week
“For me and for all of our mutual friends and acquaintances, Alois Mühlbacher’s voice is as natural as it is unmistakable. Even if it naturally developed both in terms of pitch and vocal perfection since his time as the St. Florian Boys’ Choir’s child prodigy, many parameters have remained the same: one could describe his voice as “perfect suppleness capable of rendering the music’s finest nuances”. For those of us who know Alois well and who have accompanied his vocal development, the image that we associate with this voice is self-evident. But how would a listener imagine the person to whom the voice belongs? How would a listener classify his singing? Does the voice sound like that of other counter-tenors, does it have something androgynous or of the former choirboy about it? I don’t know. For me, Alois’ voice is unique and identifiable solely as his own, inseparable from his wonderful personality — an ideal combination!
I am 44 years older than he is. As a child, it was natural that he had an older teacher (me as
his chorister). He has since completed his vocal studies, performed with famous ensembles
around the world and could have made this recording with any number of young and virtuosic piano partners. I am delighted and almost touched, that he remained loyal to me for this project. Every minute of our music making is a great pleasure for me.”
– Franz Farnberger, am 31. Jänner 2022
Erik Satie: An artist must regulate his life!
An artist must regulate his life. Here is a time-table of my daily acts. I rise at 7.18; am inspired from 10.23 to 11.47. I lunch at 12.11 and leave the table at 12.14. A healthy ride on horse-back round my domain follows from 1.19 pm to 2.53 pm. Another bout of inspiration from 3.12…
May 2022: The New Album of The Week
Gabriel Fauré composed more than a hundred art songs, spanning sixty years of his life, and he was the key figure in the evolution of the genre: he was instrumental in its blossoming, through the lyricism and extreme harmonic refinement of his settings, and he transcended it, stretching its limits, with the more ascetic and very bold cycles of his final creative period.
Basing their performance on the first complete critical edition (Edition Peters), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës present here all of Fauré’s songs – a body of work that is to this day unbelievably modern – sung for the first time by a single artist.
The recording is presented under the patronage of the Palazzetto Bru Zane and the Fondation Cordes sensibles.
January 2022: The New Album of The Week
Transmission by Edgar Moreau, recorded with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Sanderling, unites music by Bloch, Korngold, Bruch, and Ravel. All five works on the album have a connection with Jewish culture and factored into the musical development of the young cellist. He first encountered Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo around the age of 12 and describes it as “a majestic meeting of concerto and symphony, rich and colorful in its orchestration and full of contrasts.”
May 2021: The New Album Of The Week
Composer Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) is one of the leading names in today’s contemporary music. This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra together with its chief conductor Hannu Lintu includes three works by the composer, including Aura, one of the most prominent monumental orchestral works of our era.