Jeffrey Tate - La Foret: A Musical in a 5 Acts - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

At the time of questioning about the return to nature and the pre-eminence of ecological issues, this box set offers for the first time an interview with the greatest French audio-naturalist; Jean-Claude Roché, put into perspective with the sound extracts of songs of birds and biotopes, which he collected throughout his life. Directed by Bernard Fort, founder of GMVL, this interview of more than 3 hours 30 minutes looks back on the journey of this Virgilian ferryman of the sounds of nature from his meeting with the composer Olivier Messiaen, from the publication of the first album on the birds of Camargue which was going to obtain the Grand Prix of the disc of the Charles Cros Academy, until the realization of more than 150 recordings in different environments, guides of species and atmospheres, and finally the creation of the CEBA which was going to become the spirit of the French audio-naturalist school. This illustrated interview is the true manifesto of one of the greatest ambassadors of ecological testimony to the beauty of life.

The present is a world premiere recording of the complete edition of the Sacri Musicali Affetti by Barbara Strozzi, a figure of great importance among the various women musicians of the seventeenth century. Her works went on printed editions for her to be recognized and appreciated as a composer, and not just as an instrumentalist or singer. She was on the Venetian intellectual scene thanks to her connection with the poet and playwright Giulio Strozzi (of whom Barbara is most likely an illegitimate daughter), a fundamental figure in the institution of the Venetian musical theater, and soon appreciated by musicians and writers of cultural circles from Venice. The Aurata Fonte ensemble, specializing in the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, accompanies the sopranos Anna Simboli and Miho Kamiya with period instruments in the performance of this collection of sacred motets for solo voice where the composer's mastery and refinement is revealed by alternating theatrical and dramatic effects in the name of a marked vocal virtuosity. To be noted at one point the explicit mentioning of the great Claudio Monteverdi, placing by right her work in his musical wake.

A handsome, robust dog, Buck leads a peaceful existence with his master in California. His life is turned upside down the day he is kidnapped and sold to a sled dog dealer. Arrived in the Far North, he discovers the cold, the violence and the suffering. In this world of ice and blood, Buck gradually rediscovers his primitive instincts... This great classic of American literature was written by Jack London after his experience of a gold rush in Canada's Far North. Repatriated after suffering from scurvy, the author for several generations forges an unforgettable picture of a wild, brutal and indomitable nature.