“It really annoys me when people ask if I was Django Reinhardt's violinist. I tend to answer, ‘No, it was Django who was my guitarist!’ But I always add, 'the greatest guitarist of all time!” Stephane GRAPPELLI Fremeaux & Associes’ « Quintessence » products have undergone an analogical and digital restoration process which is recognized throughout the world. Each 2 CD set edition includes liner notes in English as well as a guarantee. This 2 CD set present a selection of the best recordings by Stephane Grappelli between 1933 and 1958.

At some time or other, Claude Bolling had to have hung out with the wrong people to get the right feeling of soul interpreted in his version of Black, Brown and Beige. You'll find the occasions rare when this work is performed in it's entirety. Even Duke Ellington only performed it completely twice in the course of his life. Thank goodness Bolling helps to keep the genius of Duke Ellington alive. And one further word: it takes a genius to know a genius.

You've understood! Your music is filled with the subtlety of our biguine. But you've managed to go beyond it through your harmonic science and improvisation skills. True jazz connoisseurs will appreciate it for all it's worth. Al Lirvat

This unique collection compiled from the previously-unreleased archives of Boris Alexandrov’s Red Army Choir is the fifth volume in the series to take listeners deep into the majestic patriotic songs of the former Soviet Union. The orchestrations are magnificent, revealing the Choir’s full mastery of their vocal powers accompanied by traditional Russian instruments, notably the bayan and the balalaika. Patrick FReMEAUX & Laura BeNICHOU Like the Bolshoi Ballets, the prestigious choir founded under the name of The Red Army Ensemble is a cultural reflection of traditional Russia. The extraordinary impression of power emanating from the choir and its virtuoso soloists allowed this Ensemble to reach international fame in a domain half-way between great popular entertainment and the classical orchestra. Fremeaux & Associes is now reissuing the recordings made by the son of Alexander Alexandrov, the founder of the choir’s most famous ensemble. These recordings, first made available in France by Andre Benichou (7 Productions), testify – quite independently from any ideology – to one of the most important popular expressions of the 20th century. Michel COLOMBINI

(2-CD set) “Grappelli told me that Django and Joseph were gypsies. Django had wounded his left hand when he was very young and could only use three fingers, but when he played it was if he had ten on one hand!” Bill COLEMAN. Includes a 40 page booklet with both French and English notes.

Etienne Klein is a French physicist and a philosopher of science, specialized is the question of time in physics. A fascinating 3 CD conference, that deals with the birth of modern physics: comparating Einstein's theory of relativity and Bohr's quantic theory. Recorded at the Arte Filosofia forum. in French.

(2-CD set) All the musical magic of the gypsy orchestras of the 1920's and 30's, including historic recordings of the greatest virtuosi.

“Using jazz as background music is very difficult, because an improvisation says something in the same way as an image does, so there’s a constant risk of pleonasm.”Alain CORNEAU This 3CD box set features an analysis on the relationship between jazz and cinema. Including soundtracks by Miles Davis (« Ascenseur pour l’echafaud »), Martial Solal (« A bout de souffle »), Alain Goraguer (« j’irai cracher sur vos tombes »), Michel Legrand (« Une femme est une femme »), Barney Wilen (« Un temoin dans la ville »), John Lewis (« Una Storia Milanese »)and Shorty Rogers (« Tarzan »)!

"This 2CD boxset delivers the recording of a Forum organized by one of the major newspaper in France: Liberation, with the objective of letting two major characters of the subject treated discuss in public. This discussion between Xavier Darcos (currently Minister for Education) and Aurelie Filippetti (Socialist member of the Parliament) was focused on the subject: “L’ecole forme-t-elle encore des citoyens ?”. In French." Patrick Fremeaux

Thanks to what was then called the 'post', the French were able to follow, mostly with their families, all the great events of their time. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad. The Sound Library delivers here, an anthology of 92 of these historical moments. Divided chronologically (1900-1939, 1940-1944, 1945-1952, 1953-1959, 1960-1974, 1978-1999) on eight albums, they also have an emotional and evocative value which, from �douard Branly's first speech (1900) to that of Lionel Jospin in The National Assembly on Kosovo (1999), through the inauguration of the first metro line (1903), plunge the listener back into history. Moving. (Victor BATTAGGION - HISTORIA)

(2-CD set) The Ensemble Jehan de Channey reawakens the mysterious medieval period. The troubadours' repertory of the XIIth century is balanced against that of the Goliards, discovered in the Benediktbeuren monastery and which bears it's name (Carmina Burana). The Cantigas de Santa Maria complete this depiction of medieval masterpieces. Features Cantigas de Santa Maria and Carmina Burana. Includes M'entensio * Quinte estampie reale * LI dous regard * Presidents in thronis * Ai ! lemozis * Carole * Contre le douz tans nouvel * O nacio Nephandi * Quan l'erba fresq' * Lamento di Tristano, rotta * Chanson mariale * Ihesu tu dator venie * Reis glorios * Sexte estampie reale * Douce Dame * Benedicamus Domino and much more.

This release features a reading in French of Charles Dickens’s classic David Copperfield. The eighth novel of the famous American author features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey of change and growth from infancy to maturity, as people enter and leave his life and he passes through the stages of his development. It has been called his masterpiece, "the triumph of the art of Dickens,” which marks a turning point in his work, the point of separation between the novels of youth and those of maturity. Though written in the first person, David Copperfield is considered to be more than an autobiography, going beyond this framework in the richness of its themes and the originality of its writing, which makes it a true autobiographical novel. In the words of the author, this novel was "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention". Some elements of the novel follow events in Dickens's own life. It was Dickens' favorite among his own novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield."

This DVD presents an original movie on philosopher Michel Onfray. Written and directed by Elizabeth Kapnist, the camera follows Michel Onfray in his every-day life and allows us to understand both the man and the philosopher. As a complement, the DVD delivers some extra-scenes and a previously unreleased conference on Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher. In French, no subtitles.

Bill Haley was a pioneer and the first white musician — no doubt one of the best — to achieve success with a rock ‘n’ roll song: he’d already sold a million records a year before Elvis had his first hit. Bill Haley’s career as a country singer who went on to create rockabilly and moved into rock is detailed here by Bruno Blum. Often little-known, but always scattered here and there, the best recordings of Bill Haley, mostly known for his “Rock Around the Clock”, are all available here in this fundamental anthology. Patrick FReMEAUX

(2-CD set) “Charles Trenet, who gave life to poetry with his voice, and his voice to the life of his poetry”. Max JACOB. Includes a 40 page booklet with both French and English notes.