Five works are presented below. Each of them presents very different thematic anchor points for a programme, but their musical conception is so open that the most diverse points of contact can arise.

To mark the Paris Olympic Games, Durand Salabert Eschig have put together a playlist of our greatest masterpieces on the theme of sport.

Interview with Mathias Auclair, Head of the Music Department of the French National Library.

More than 100 years after her passing, Lili Boulanger at the Proms 2024

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Darius Milhaud on 22 June, the versatile conductor and contemporary music expert Franck Ollu looks back at the history of this great composer, covering his various works and influences. 

 

The political turmoil and upheavals of the 20th century, with the two world wars and other global and national crises also left their mark on musicians and shaped the lives of composers of this era in unforeseen and sometimes tragic ways. Five works by composers who dealt with very specific, unconventional and personal themes in their music are presented below.

Sivan Eldar's new work for choir and soloist the stone the tree the well : world premiere on April 13 

This time, five orchestral works are presented, which include different large instrumentations and have one thing in common: in a certain way, they refuse to be stylistically categorized according to common chronological schemes: be it through musical forms such as fugues and baroque dances or specifically used harmonies and unconventional extra-musical subjects.