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CDs, MP3s and streaming: why the ways we listen to music are diversifyingStreaming still dominates the global market, but CDs and local files retain their uses. Figures for 2025 published in 2026 shed light on the choice between access, collecting and autonomy.
James Brandon Lewis: distinguishing Red Lily from concerts with The Messthetics*Calling Antonín* was released on 23 October. The concerts announced in Paris and Tours feature a different line-up: a guide to the projects, dates and venues.
Joe Block: what There Is Always Hope changes in his careerA first small-ensemble album devoted to his compositions, thirteen tracks and one guest on just one track: a few pointers for discovering the pianist’s project.
Galina Vishnevskaya: from Tatyana to recital and mentoringThe soprano’s centenary offers a way to connect her roles at the Bolshoi, her recitals with Rostropovich at the piano and her work with young singers.
Concerts for children: choosing between opera, a cine-concert and an orchestra from 28 to 31 OctoberIn Dinard, Paris and Montpellier, three ways to get into music during the 2026 school holidays. Recommended ages and formats matter just as much as the repertoire.
Thomas Ospital: why every organ demands a new process of adaptationKeyboards, tonal possibilities and preparation time: the organist’s documented career sheds light on what happens before a recital.
“At your prime”: what the expression says about a best periodA career, a performance or a favourite memory: the English word prime refers to a favourable period. To understand it, we need to specify what is being compared.
2001: A Space Odyssey: why Kubrick lets the images tell the storyThe 1968 film was developed with Arthur C. Clarke, but left out some of the screenplay’s explanations. Its history sheds light on the space it gives to images and music.
Charpentier’s Médée: voices bring the tragedy to life in concert performanceThe concert on 30 September 2026, featuring Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Les Épopées, was broadcast on France Musique on 24 October. A few pointers for approaching the work.
Haydn: the concerto that makes a new trumpet singWritten in 1796 for Anton Weidinger, the E-flat concerto accompanied an innovation: a trumpet capable of playing the entire chromatic scale.
Misty: how Erroll Garner’s melody became a standardFirst an instrumental piece in 1954, then a song with lyrics by Johnny Burke, Misty has crossed jazz, popular song and cinema.
“Metz, a city’s memory”: looking at history through photographsJean-Claude Berrar brings together 250 photographs dating from the 1860s to the 1950s. A way into the transformation of Metz, to be explored alongside the city’s archives.