NormanH

And for May Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFaNP7l_iE

The same singer in a selection of orchestrated versions of some favorite Schubert songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyrFGyxihE

I prefer this voice though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUHvsvZosG8

I CAN get Arte :) https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/069067-000-A/monteverdi-aux-sources-de-l-opera/

But your post did lead me to this :I HATE Wagner Opera....but these are lovely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMP5deH2ELQ

Alas I have not solved the problem of accessing iPlayer ... On the other hand here are a couple of pieces by a French Baroque composer I had never heard of sung by a welcome new mezzo Eva Zaicik https://rumijaleleddine.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/pignolet-de-monteclair-la-bergere-par-eva-zaicik/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSV5ZBeKRw

Yes that is very fine ..

RIFT and British in Europe have no mandate to "put evidence to UK parliamentary committees and meet with the French Government on anyone's behalf.They are  a self-elected group. I do not claim superior knowledge unlike these self-important busy bodies. I simply refer to official documents published by the country in which I live. For my part I can claim to have accurately predicted that those of us with a carte de séjour would simply have to exchange it for the new document; something that caused a lot of debate on here a while back. Chapitre II : Droit au séjour des ressortissants britanniques et des membres de leur famille titulaires de la carte de séjour permanent prévue à l'article L. 122-1 du code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile Pour l'application du 1° du I et du 1° du III de l'article 3 de l'ordonnance du 6 février 2019 susvisée, le ressortissant britannique ou le ressortissant de pays tiers autre que britannique membre de sa famille, titulaires de la carte de séjour permanent prévue à l'article L. 122-1 du code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile et sollicitant la carte de résident mentionnée à l'article L. 314-8 du même code, doit présenter à l'appui de sa demande : 1° Un passeport en cours de validité ; 2° Le titre de séjour dont il était titulaire précédemment.

I would never trust such anglophone sites to get anything right.In any case the legifrance site has official status I quote from the 'Livret de Citoyen' that one has to know if one wishes to take French nationality: "Comment pouvez-vous vous renseigner sur les lois et les règles en vigueur ? • Toutes les lois, souvent regroupées en codes, sont disponibles sur internet : www.legifrance.gouv.fr"

Did you forget the link?

Far from Baroque...for mint:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlApRH-yc-0

PATFI like this Swiss group who are working their way through all the Bach cantatas https://rumijaleleddine.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/j-s-bach-cantate-bwv-66/

And for a bit of fun with the  music of Lully in the soundtrack there is this trashy 'bodice-ripper' which I confess I adore (to my shame) largely for Sophie Marceau [6] [6] [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZ06hXpybk

That is a tremendous performance; one of my very favorite groups in this repertoire:) Speaking of Lully I think you will have heard this piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X54Btzutlj0 I have the DVD of this tremendous performance of "Le bougeois Gentilhomme' which has incidental music by Lully, but what is particularly interesting is the fact that the pronunciation is that of the 16th C... and easier for us to hear than that of modern French!! It is very long but an amusing bit is around 17 minutes where the music and dance teachers are trying to get Mr Jourdain to take (paying) lessons from them with all the reasons  we give for the arts today but in this section their baser motives and pretension is laid bare :))))Lully's music is lovely all the more so in context and with the period danceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKuUqsR4WOY

A very old TV version and terrible quality....but one of my favorite things about French music and dance.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fcZHpCNq9c

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/084736-000-A/cecilia-bartoli-friends/

I wil see if it is on Arte 7

There are a couple of Facebook groups with mainly British buyers. On under 50k€ and another over https://www.facebook.com/groups/772359282858732/ You have to join the group

By Fritz Kreisler I believe

I'm afraid JDD is a bête noire of mine.I feel she slithers up to the note in that affected way jazz singers do and she emotes externally rather than using the voice to express the feeling.. The other girl's vibrato and strong Portugese accent were a bit off-putting too... Sorry and thanks for the links but they are not quite my cup of tea..[:(]

And you MUST remember: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSiqrgNh3U&start_radio=1&list=RDfrSiqrgNh3U&t=29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWS9Xqd_U9E

My own favourite is Stanford. You will certainly know some of the choral church music (if you don't let me know and I can post a few links)but there is quite a bit of orchestral music that is much less known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM4QQo6SoWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ_WqwRpE8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhHS23qczK8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYtpAuuMGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOrkiLpqKWI

It causes hesitations in my English as sometimes the French word or phrase springs into my mind first.Just occasionally I use a French word as if it were an English one when in fact that word doesn't exist, or isn't used like that in English. I think WB picked me up on that  in a post here not long ago...

I just came across this old broadcast of Bartoli in her youth... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQtmr0z5cmo