Pianist Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua, who looks after our ‘conversations’ around the piano of La Belle Juliette has chosen to bring together tradition and modernity with an original recital dedicated to Liszt and his transcriptions of not only Berlioz and Wagner, but also Mendelssohn, Chopin, Gershwin and Martial Solal.

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Pianiste Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua, en charge des ‘conversations’ autour du piano de La Belle Juliette a choisi d’allier tradition et modernité avec un récital original consacré à Liszt et à ses transcriptions d’après Berlioz et Wagner, mais aussi à Mendelssohn, Chopin, Gershwin et Martial Solal. (lire la suite / continue reading)

An exhibition about a painter at la Cité de la Musique, the centre for all things musical? Couldn’t be more suited… (lire la suite / continue reading)

Another lovely concert at La Belle Juliette, and you can book your seats online! Just click any image, or use the link at the bottom of this article.

Seats cost 25€, and we’ll be delighted to offer you a glass of champagne at the end of the concert.

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You may not have heard of this three days festival that takes place outdoors in a suburb close to Paris. It’s organised by far left newspaper l’Humanité, and although many of the groups are only familiar to the French, perhaps you’ll be tempted to go and see Joan Baez or The Ting Tings? Plus, there’s a lot more on than music… (lire la suite / continue reading)

Forget your chillout compilations, your Dire Straits and your Michael Bubbly or whatever he’s called… It’s time for TECHNO! Ebeneezer Goode!

Photo by Mister_Jack used under cc licence

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It seems there’s something pretty musical about La Belle Juliette! As well as our piano and harp concerts, and the specially chosen, exclusive selection of music that plays on the ground floor (changing throughout the day: calm at breakfast, diverse in the afternoon, feistier in the evening…), we also attract the occasional exceptionally gifted musician.

For example, for her Paris concert at the Trianon this week, the brilliant Californian singer and harpist Joanna Newsom stayed with us, and Björk spent almost a week at the hotel, using our great salon for interviews and more… (lire la suite / continue reading)

After the Bastille Day ball with tipsy firemen and the military parade, and before the fireworks display, this free concert will try to inform people about the inequalities still facing some people in France – racism, homophobia, poverty… – and that we are the ones who have to act. Here’s all the info… (lire la suite / continue reading)

For their last concert of the season, non-profit organisation Lyre & Muses is organising an even in the gardens of the French National Institute for Young Deaf People. It’s a rare occasion to see this large garden, closed to the public for the rest of the year, and experience the refined sounds of the Magnifica quintet… (lire la suite / continue reading)

There probably isn’t another jazz festival like it in the world, mixing old school with new school with the school of the future: Cinematic Orchestra, Archie Shepp, ESG, Poni Hoax, Maceo Parker, ?uestlove, Macy Gray, Amp Fiddler and even Meshell Ndegeocello qui playing a set of Prince songs!

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