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The Feast of the Bastille of France , celebrated on 14 July, is a public holiday in France . It was instituted in 1880 by the Raspail law , without specifying whether it commemorated the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, symbolizing the end of the absolute monarchy, or the Feast of the Federation on the same day in 1790, symbolizing the unification of the French nation. The second commemoration was intended to gain the support of moderate republicans for whom the storming of the Bastille was too violent an event.

Anne Sofie von Otter (1955) is a mezzo-soprano born into a Swedish aristocratic family. She made her debut at London's Covent Garden in 1985, at La Scala in Milan in 1987, and a year later at the Metropolitan Opera in New York . She has achieved notable success in various roles in works by Mozart, Handel, Richard Strauss , and Monteverdi , although in recent years she has ventured into mezzo-soprano roles from Wagnerian literature . As a recital soloist, she is an exceptional exponent of Mahler, Brahms, Grieg, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Antonín Dvořák, Schubert, Schumann, Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, Reynaldo Hahn, Kurt Weill, and Erich Korngold. In 2003, she was awarded the Schock Prize , awarded by a committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy . In 2012, she won the Swedish Academy's Grammis Award and was awarded the French government's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . In recitals, she is often accompanied by Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg , with whom she has maintained a professional relationship since 1990. In 2015, her album Douce France , featured here today, won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo .

Sweet France . 00:00 L'heure exquise 02:32 Le plus beau présent 04:31 Clair de lune 05:55 Si vous n'avez rien à me dire 09:15 Vogue, vogue la galère 11:06 Quand je fus pris au pavillon 12:12 Puisque j'ai mis ma lèvre 16:01 23: Le secret 32:59 Three chansons de Bilitis: Le tombeau des Naïades 35:57 Four Poems for Voice, Viola and Piano, Op. 5: La cloche fêlée 44:19 Four Poems for Voice, Viola and Piano, Op. 5: Serenade 48:46 Danse Macabre Op. 53:57 Padam Padam 57:07 To Saint-Germain-des-Prés 01:00:42 Quel joli temps (September) 01:04:05 To Paris 01:07:18 Le facteur 01:11:28 Chanson des jumelles 01:14:33 Je vivrai sans toi 01:17:44 Les feuilles mortes 01:22:10 Douce France 01:25:34 Boom! 01:27:42 Le pont Mirabeau 01:30:36 La carte du tendre 01:33:43 Chanson d'Automne 01:35:59 La vie en rose 01:40:15 Que reste-t-il de nos amours 01:43:12 Parlez-moi d'amour

The accordion is a harmonic wind musical instrument consisting of a bellows, a tuning fork, and two wooden sound boxes. The bellows are closed at both ends by the wooden boxes. The right-hand side of the accordion also has a fingerboard with a key arrangement that can be piano-like ( piano accordion ) or round keys (also called buttons ); the left-hand side has buttons on both types of accordion for playing bass and accompaniment chords.

Today, with the help of Jean Freber and his accordion, we approach the depths of Paris in the last century.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German violinist, organist, conductor, and composer. He was born in Eisenach into one of the most prominent musical families in history, with more than 30 famous composers. In 1703, he obtained his first job as court musician to the Prince of Arndtstadt and in 1707 moved to Mülhausen as organist, where he married his cousin Maria Barbara, with whom he had seven children. After his wife's death in 1720, he remarried after a year and a half to Maria Magdalena, with whom he would have another thirteen children. In 1723, he moved to Leipzig , where he would reside until his death at the age of 65. A prolific composer, he is considered one of the three greatest geniuses in the history of music, along with Mozart and Beethoven.

The Brandenburg Concertos are a collection of six concertos (Concertos 1, 2, 4 and 5, concertos grosso ; Nos. 3 and 6, orchestral concertos ) that Johann Sebastian Bach presented in 1721 to Christian Ludwig , Marquess of Brandenburg , and are something of a "crown jewel" of instrumental music not only by Bach but of the entire Baroque . Bach probably composed the concertos over several years while he was Kapellmeister in Köthen . Heinrich Besseler , the eminent German musicologist, has pointed out that the total number of performers required (excluding the First Concerto, which was rewritten for a special occasion) exactly matches the 17 players Bach had at his disposal in Köthen .

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048. Bach dispenses with wind instruments to give sole prominence to the strings. I (0:0) ALLEGRO MODERATO. Constructed from rhythmic cells, the basis of the various melodic themes, worked contrapuntally. II (5:35) ADAGIO originally consists of only two chords, one at the beginning and one at the end, which form a Phrygian half-cadence; it is likely that these chords were intended to leave some free space for the performer to improvise. III (5:46) ALLEGRO The dance seems to take over the score, as if it were a suite beat. It is the only concerto movement by Bach to use a binary form of dance in two sections, in the style of the gigue .

Today we present the version offered by the American group Voices of Music

Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) was a French composer, pianist and teacher, who studied piano with Anne Soria , then with Antoine Reicha , a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris , who taught her music writing (harmony, counterpoint), and later with Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel . Farrenc taught piano at the Conservatoire de Paris , where she eventually received the same salary as her male colleagues. She was supported by the best musicians of her time, such as the violinist Joseph Joachim , and was twice awarded the Chartier Prize from the Institut de France , intended to reward the best chamber music compositions, in 1861 and 1869. She died on 15 September 1875 and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery.

Symphony . The word derives from the Latin symphonĭa meaning consonance as opposed to diaphōnia meaning dissonance. In the Middle Ages the word symphony was used to describe instruments capable of producing more than one sound simultaneously and by the end of the 18th century the word had already acquired its current meaning: a work for orchestra consisting of several sections. The symphony reached its maturity with Beethoven . His symphonies usually had a first movement "Allegro" in sonata form (exposition-development-re-exposition sometimes with a short introduction), a slow second movement (sometimes in the form of a theme and variations ), a third movement in triple rhythm (usually a scherzo , before Beethoven the commonest were a minuet and trio ), ending with the fast fourth movement in rondo or sonata form.

Today we present Louise Farrenc 's First Symphony , structured in four movements: I (0:00) ANDANTE SOSTENUTO - ALLEGRO .-. II (12:00) ADAGIO CANTABILE .-. III (19:57) MINUETTO MODERATO .-. IV (24:49) ALLEGRO ASSAI; a performance by the Roco Orchestra conducted by American maestro Michelle Merrill .

Édith Piaf (1915-1963) is the stage name of Édith Giovanna Gassion , one of the most famous French singers of the 20th century , to whom we owe numerous songs in the Francophone repertoire such as "La vie en rose", "Non, je ne regrette rien", "Hymne à l'amour", "Mon légionnaire", "La Foule" or "Milord", known worldwide. A prominent personality, Piaf inspired numerous composers and mentored young artists who achieved international fame. Édith Piaf also stood out as a film and theater actress, participating in numerous films and plays. In the 1950s, Édith , famous in many countries, became a kind of Parisian icon. The American public consecrated her in 1956 at Carnegie Hall in New York , to which she returned frequently.

Diana Ross (1944) is an American singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1960s as part of the group The Supremes, establishing herself as a solo artist in 1970. She later played the lead role in the film Lady Sings the Blues, about the life of singer Billie Holiday , which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. During the 1970s and 1980s, she became the most successful female artist of the pop era and also covered the film and television industries as well as Broadway theater. In 1993, she entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful female artist of all time. Sales of her albums and singles have an estimated total of over 100 million copies. In 1976 she was named " Female Artist of the Century " by Billboard magazine.

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) was a French composer born in Paris and the author of a wealth of stage music. His first successes came in his adult years with the ballet Giselle and the opera Si j'étais roi ; by then he had already written several ballets and operas; in total he wrote 40 operas, 14 ballets and various cantatas, hymns, masses, choruses, piano pieces, pantomimes, military marches and plays. Of all these compositions, it is worth highlighting, in addition to those already mentioned, the Christmas carol Cantique de Noël, world-famous, in its English translation as O Holy Night. and the ballet Le Corsaire. From 1849 until his death in 1856 he was professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire .

Giselle is a ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam , choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli and libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy, based on the play De l'Allemagne (1835) by Heinrich Heine . Giselle is a peasant girl of great beauty and extreme innocence; deceived and betrayed, she falls into a despair that will drag her towards madness and death. Giselle is one of the masterpieces of ballet blanc , a ballet scene in which all the members of the corps de ballet appear dressed in white. Since the times of Romantic ballet, these ballet blanc scenes have been populated by ghosts, dryads, sylphs, fairies or similar creatures.

Today we present the complete ballet performed by Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle in the main roles, accompanied by the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan .

Flamenco is a musical expression native to Andalusia and some of the neighboring regions such as Extremadura and Murcia . Its origins appear to be a blend of Andalusian popular culture with expressions of the Romani people, as well as elements of Castilian romances, Moorish music, and Sephardic songs. We can say that flamenco was already being performed in the 18th century , but it has evolved to this day, continuing to do so like any living being. Its three main facets are cante (the act of singing performed by the singer), toque (typical of guitar players), and baile (characteristic of bailaor@s).

Sara Baras is a Spanish dancer, choreographer and director of her own dance company. She was born in San Fernando, Cadiz , in 1971, where she began her dance studies at her mother Concha Baras 's school. Shortly after, she joined the group Los Niños de la Tertulia Flamenca , with which she toured flamenco festivals in Barcelona . At the age of 14, she joined Manuel Morao's Company and performed at the Alhambra Flamenco Theatre Festival in Granada . That same year, she won the First Prize “ Gente Joven ” from TVE . In 1991, with this company, she performed for two months at the Eduard VII Theatre in Paris . In 1993, she won the “ Madroño Flamenco” award in Montellano, Seville, for being considered the most outstanding artist of the year. In 1997, she presented her own company, closing the XXXVII National Festival of Cante de las Minas . In 2003, she won the National Dance Award . In 2005, she continued her Sueños tour in Europe, the USA, South America, and Asia.