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Jean-Claude Risset

French Composers’ Names – Jean-Claude Risset

Another composer in our French Composers' Names series: Jean-Claude Risset. Well, composer and resea... Learn how to pronounce Risset's name in French!
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Thomas Deneuville
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Two Modern Requiems Help To Reflect After Sandy

French twentieth-century organ composer Maurice Duruflé and contemporary American composer Gregory S...
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Daniel Garrick
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French Composers’ Pieces – Le Noir de l’Etoile (Gérard Grisey)

“In 1967, a young astronomer detected in the heavens a rapidly varying radio signal, in the fo...
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Thomas Deneuville
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Hanging out with Florent Ghys | Hang #5

Fifth installment in our Hang video series: Florent Ghys. Florent Ghys is a composer and upright bas...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Stéphane Degout (Pelléas) et Elena Tsallagova (Mélisande) - Photo by Charles Duprat

French Pieces’ Names – Pelléas et Mélisande

Yesterday, somebody Googled Pelleas et Melisande Pronunciation and landed on I Care if You Listen. I...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Gérard Grisey

The third composer in this French composers' names series that was part of Ensemble l'Itinéraire (al...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Pierre Boulez

Bank holiday here in the US today (Columbus Day) so you will get two MP3s for the price of one. This...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Philippe Manoury

Another post request from a Google+ friend. This time, I’ve been asked to record the pronuncia...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Pieces’ Names — Quatuor pour la fin du temps

A kind reader recently asked me in a comment to cover some titles of Olivier Messiaen pieces. Of cou...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Eric Tanguy

French Composers’ Names – Eric Tanguy

Part of the new generation of French composers, Eric Tanguy (born in 1968 in Caen—the capital of the...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)

French Composers’ Names — Charles Koechlin

Charles Koechlin is, without a doubt, one of the most important (and influential) French composers o...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names — Gabriel Fauré

This French composer’s name is extremely easy to pronounce for English speakers. Apart from th...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

French Composers’ Names – Darius Milhaud

This week’s installment in our French composers’ names series is another member of Les S...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

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