"Classic moments" N ° 18: Rule Britannia!

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Welcome to this eighteenth edition of " Classic Moments ", your letter exclusively dedicated to classical music and opera. Every Friday, we offer a maximum of musical choices to discover, rediscover, or share. From our latest discographic favorites to the shows to watch from your home, which had ignited our critics at the time of their creation. Going through the books whose music of words seduced us.

In this penultimate letter of the season, we will come back to the disappearance of a "Lady" of the violin: Ida Haendel , who died on June 30. From one Handel to another, we will taste the operational joys of Semele with Sir John Eliot Gardiner . Always England, with those hymns of the Renaissance by William Byrd that the voices of the Magdalena Consort express for us , or this Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten revisited by the poet Ted Huffman . We will warm in the consoling light of the Bach cantatas , which

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