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‘My Paris’ & ‘Ravel: Concertos pour Piano-Mélodies’

‘My Paris’ & ‘Ravel: Concertos pour Piano-Mélodies’

Paris Is Flute. Flute Is Paris

June 15, 2022 | By Nick Hammond | Music

When an album with the title My Paris appeared on the list of newly released classical recordings, I felt it would be rude not to review it for Paris Update. Australian flautist Ana de la Vega, who was inspired by … Read More

Pelléas et Mélisande

Pelléas et Mélisande

Darkness and Light in Music

July 14, 2021 | By Nick Hammond | Music

Recently, in an article on Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, I suggested that the only other 20th-century French opera that will stand the test of time is Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), inspired by Maurice Maeterlink’s symbolist play from … Read More

French Music for the Stage

French Music for the Stage

Theatrical Froth

May 19, 2021 | By Nick Hammond | Music

After the flood of new releases of French chamber music recordings over the last couple of months, it comes as a refreshing change to have a new album of French orchestral music to review. The veteran Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi … Read More

Dialogues des Carmélites

Dialogues des Carmélites

An Unlikely Masterpiece

May 5, 2021 | By Nick Hammond | Music

It is always an intriguing exercise to try to guess which operatic works written in this or the last century will stand the test of time. In the French repertoire, an opera like Olivier Messiaen’s sprawling Saint François d’Assise (1983), … Read More

Un Matin de Printemps

Un Matin de Printemps

A Trio of Spring Treats

April 28, 2021 | By Nick Hammond | Music

Could it be due to lockdown that so many recordings of French chamber music have been released recently? It is certainly easier and safer to bring a few musicians together, rather than a larger ensemble, especially if all the players … Read More


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