French musician and singer Emilie Simon was born in 1978. She was a student of ancient music before turning to writing and composing electronic music. She found success in France with her self-titled debut album released in 2003. It won an award in France for Best Electronic Album, helped in part, by her striking videos.

The second volume in the five-part series The Perfection of Music - Masterpieces of the French Baroque , The Concert Franзais is based on actual 18th-century concert programs performed at the Palace of the Tuileries in the Louvre. Featuring sopranos Sara Macliver and Taryn Fiebig, as well as supporting scholarly notes, this album is a fitting recreation of the splendour of the opulent French Baroque.

Based upon Gustave Flauberts 1858 novel Salammbo, this is the epic story of love and hate, revenge and rivalry. Taking place during the fall of Carthage to the Roman Empire, you play Spendius, slave and close companion of Matho, a Libyan mercenary, who is in love with Salammbo, General Hamilcars daughter. As Spendius you must outwit rebel forces and rescue the City of Carthage as well as reunite Matho with his true love.

The game features music from Mozarts Requiem, and rich graphics designed by famed French artist Philippe Druillet whose illustrations also appear in Ring: Legend of Nibelungen and its sequel Ring II. Druillet rescued Salammbo from Cryo, the company who began the development, and finished the product himself.

The Perfection of Music - Masterpieces of the French Baroque is a new series of five discs of French Baroque chamber music. This album, Volume 1 in the series, explores the beautiful cantata repertoire, featuring Taryn Fiebig, Fiona Campbell, an ensemble on period instruments playing rare Baroque pieces and several world premiere recordings. With in-depth scholarly notes on Baroque music and performance practice, this prestigious series will become indispensable to any fan of Baroque music.

Sigismund Thalberg, Liszt s rival, was one of the great pianists of the nineteeth century. Before an 1837 keyboard duel between the two, Liszt penned an essay charging Thalberg s music with impotence and monotony. Modern tastes have awarded Liszt the palm, but, as pianist Stefan Irmer points out here in his own booklet notes (in German, French, and English), observers at the time would not have been unanimous in that judgment. He includes a hilarious commentary by Heinrich Heine, not naming Liszt but praising Thalberg in terms that unmistakably refer to him: The frail women are no less fond of [Thalberg], even though he does not appeal to their sympathy with epileptic fits on the piano, even though he does not speculate on the extreme sensitivity of their tender nerves....

Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years.

A unique film charting the extremes, excesses, highs and lows of international DJ trio Swedish House Mafia. 2 years, 15 countries, 285 gigs one unique film. TAKE ONE is a hedonistic rollercoaster that offers a glimpse into the work, play and lifestyle of Swedish House Mafia, the electronic group that have fast become one of the hottest names on the dance music scene. This intimate warts-and-all account charts the whirlwind journey of three DJs Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso as they tour the world, play to crowds of thousands, and create the tracks that have brought them international fame and mainstream chart success. From the on-stage euphoria of playing to entranced clubbers, to the buzz of realising a track in intimate creative sessions, to the inevitable bickering between the guys, TAKE ONE goes beyond the music to show what binds together three friends, three artists, three pioneers, and three total individuals in an emotional ride to success as a group.