Jean-Christian Michel's CD Albums Revolutionize Instrumental Classical Music. Dizzying Alchemy of Primal Jazz and Sacred Cathedral Music. Official Discography, New Best-Offs 2025, Remastered Album Releases, Best CD of the Year Award. Requiem, Crucifixus...
SACRED MUSIC CD, CLASSICAL MUSIC CD, JAZZ MUSIC CD, SPATIAL JAZZ & SACRED MUSIC CROSSOVER CD
Jean-Christian Michel has joined the Classical composers, as we call the great musicians
whose brilliant creations remain undiminished by time.
Nevertheless his music is not "Traditional Classical music", nor "Sacred Music" in the usual sense of the word. Indeed, while the music of Jean-Christian Michel has it's source in the rich heritage of European Classical music, with its most beautiful expression, Sacred Music throughout the centuries, it is inspired also by many currents of a contemporary sophisticated Jazz.
The music of Jean-Christian Michel joins the sphere of influence of the Jazz Classical Crossover music wave : theCD, discs and albums of the french composer offer an happy synthesis of Jazz and Sacred Music.
Sacred Music, which transcends religious music by its art and its beauty, adorns itself with an impressive dimension when integrating the pulsation and the expressiveness of Jazz... The music of Jean-Christian Michel is the magic emotional alchemy which brings dreams !
Requiem
- Fugue en Sol Mineur - My Soul Longeth To Depart In
Peace - Unto The I Cry, O Lord Jesus - Choral N°
45 BWV 709 Seigneur, tourne toi vers nous - Missa Sine Nomine - Oratorio de Noel -
Miserere - Prélude en La Mineur "Anna" - Adagio et Fugue en Fa Majeur - Choral Spiritus alter.
CD
- CRUCIFIXUS
With
Monique THUS, church organ ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
Crucifixus - Quatrième sonate - Prélude en sol mineur - Trio en ut mineur - Kyriale - Praeludium - Jésus que ma joie demeure part 1 -
Jésus que ma joie demeure part 2 - Choral avec un pont (No 41 BWV 640) - Les Écritures - Choral final.
CD-
JQM 1 & 2 - LES CHEMINS DE REPENTANCE
With
THE CHOIRS OF SAINT EUSTACHE ; Monique THUS, church organ ; Kenny Clarke, drums ; Pierre LABADIE, cello ; Miguel JAÈN Classical
guitar ; Guy PEDERSEN, double-bass ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
Les
chemins de Repentance (11'10) - Suite en la mineur - La dimension
des morts - JQM 1 & 2 - Incantation des Vivants - La Transfiguration.
- A great recording Classical and Jazz !
CD-LE
CŒUR DES ÉTOILES
With
Monique THUS, church organ ; Daniel HUMAIR, drums ; Guy PEDERSEN, double-bass ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
Le
Cœur des Etoiles - Suite Provençale - Les Ames errantes
- Divertissement en do mineur - Le Jardin des Méditations
- Variation 3 - L'Offrande Originelle - Des Générations
par Millions.
CD-VISION
D'ÉZÉCHIEL
With Monique THUS, church organ ; Daniel HUMAIR, drums ; Miguel JAÈN, Classical guitar ; Guy PEDERSEN, double-bass ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
Vision
d'Ezéchiel - Les Joints de lumière - Au Clair de
la Lune - Berceuse - Marche Nuptiale - Chant Funèbre -
L'Horloge Perpétuelle.
CD- OUVERTURE SPATIALE
With Monique THUS, church organ ; Kenny Clarke, drums ; Pierre
LABADIE, cello ; Guy PEDERSEN, double-bass. One of the best recordings
of Kenny Clarke ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
Ève des Origines - L'Aube des temps - Le jardin des Oliviers - Choral en ré mineur et variations (part 1 - Choral) - Choral en ré mineur et variations (part 2 - Variation) - L'équation de l'infini - Le calice de Lumière - Le souffle des orgues - Divertissement en do mineur - La cathédrale des brumes.
CD- PORT-MARIA
With Monique THUS, church
organ ; Kenny Clarke, drums ; Jean-Pierre COULEAU, piano ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
Concerto for clarinet
and piano from Jean-Christian Michel.
Port-
Maria - Le Voleur de Sommeil - Trille et fugue en ré mineur - La
Corde de Larmes - Sonate en Fa majeur - Choral les Oxydes de Lumière
- Les Paraboles de l'Espace - La lagune insondable.
CD- MUSIQUE DE
LUMIÈRE
With
Monique THUS, church organ ; Daniel HUMAIR ; Jean-Marie HAUSER,
drums ; Guy PEDERSEN, double-bass ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
La
Spirale des Songes - Fugue étincelante - Infrarouge -
La Forge d'Hallucinations - Apocalypse - L'Infiltration Céleste
- Les Ricochets de Lumière - Le Pêcheur d'Etoiles
- L'Éveil du Firmament.
CD- VIF-OBSCUR
With
Monique THUS, church organ ; Sauveur MALLIA, double-basse ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
Vif-Obscur - La Cathédrale de Lumière - La Voix des Transparents -
Berceuse en filigrane- Le Puits de Lumière - Danse aux
Pieds nus - L'Ecume des Songes.
CD- J.-S. BACH TRANSCRIPTIONS
Johann-Sebastian
BACH's works exclusively created with computers and synthesizers,
by Jean-Christian Michel.
J.-S. Bach TRANSCRIPTIONS - Aria from Orchestral Suite in D Major, BWV 1068
- Sonata IV - Choral BWV 515 - Unto Thee I cry O Lord Jesus, BWV
639 - Matthaus Passion, Choral BWV 244 - Choral BWV 737
- In dich hab' ich gehoffet, Herr, BWV 640 - Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 709 - Trio
in C minor, BWV 585 - Jesu joy of man's desiring, Cantata
BWV 147 - Concerto in D minorl BWV 1043 - My Soul longeth to depart in peace, BWV 727 (New arrangement) - Cantata BWV 144.
CD
- LIVE CONCERT
It is night in L.A and day in Paris. Jean-Christian Michel and
his group appear suddenly, as from another world, surrounded by
the strange light of laser volumes. The multidimensional sounds
of the synthesizers seize space in a high voltage atmosphere...
With Monique Thus, organ and keyboards - Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
LIVE
CONCERT - Les Paraboles de l’espace - Ève des origines - La forge
d’hallucinations - Vision d’Ézéchiel
- L’offrande originelle - Les ricochets de lumière
- Carillon - Le cœur des étoiles - L’horloge
perpétuelle - Choral de la Keyrié - L' équation
de l’infini - La lagune insondable.
CD
- JEAN-CHRISTIAN MICHEL PLAYS JAZZ
All
those who loved the Classical recordings of Jean-Christian Michel
do not risk to be disappointed by this Jazz record. The spirit
of the great composer hangs over all
the arrangements, and the inimitable clarinet sound adds its
unspeakable magic to music. Discover Jean-Christian Michel as Jazzman and discover new feelings
!
Black & blue - Loveless love - St James infirmary - Joe Turner blues - Careless love - Oriental man - Lonesome blues - Perdido street blues - When the saints go marchin’in - Blues des années 60.
DVD
- "IMAGINAIRE"
An incredible interstellar concert for a trip through the galaxies.With Monique Thus,organ ; Jean-Christian Michel, clarinet.
My
Soul longeth to depart in peace (J.-S. Bach) – Fugue en sol
mineur – Choral Spiritus alter – Quatrième sonate (J.-S. Bach) – Kyriale – Trio en ut mineur (J.-S. Bach)
- La Cathédrale des brumes – Vision d’Ezéchiel
– Ève des Origines – La Transfiguration –
Des Générations par millions.
To
know more on the NEW DVD "IMAGINAIRE" of Jean-Christian Miche- Clic on : MUSIC
DVD
Luxurious film-coated SongBook - 40-page booklet of scores, texts, and photos on glossy paper.
THE GOLDEN DISC
Originally, the golden disc was a marketing idea from the American recording
companies to draw the attention of newspapers to the fact that one of
their artists' albums had sold 1,000,000 copies. The first golden disc
was awarded to GLENN MILLER in the forties by RCA, for a run of a little
more than a million 78s. Gradually the golden disc became a firmly established institution
in the recording business.
The
"golden disc" given to the artist is actually a "master"
pressing of the LP, gold-plated by electrolysis.
Little
by little, debates took place in "the business", determining
whether sales should concern albums, "LP", "EP"
or "Singles" and consequentlyCD... The number sold for the
golden disc varied according to time and country : In France, in the
seventies, it was still awarded for 1,000,000 sold copies. Then things
changed... They ended up awarding this "reward" only for more
than 100,000 copies.
The
golden disc is the music industry award best
known to the general public. However the recording industry also gives
other trophies : silver discs , platinum discs, diamond discs
etc. 50,000 copies are enough to receive a silver disc.
The platinum disc is acquired from 300,000
copies. But to carry off a diamond disc
is more difficult : the diamond disc is
awarded for the sale of a million albums !
JEAN-CHRISTIAN
MICHEL has produced more than 5 million albums, crowned by 3 diamond disc ( Requiem, Aranjuez and Sacred Music ), three
platinum disc (Crucifixus, JQM and Ouverture
spatiale) and a dozen golden discs. Aranjuez sold more than 1,500,000
copies, which represents a virtually unequalled record !
Very detailed : How many albums, SNEP Certification, Streams etc.- Sorry, in French : [ GOLD DISC ]
Jean-Christian Michel, Clarinette ; Monique THUS, orgue ; Daniel HUMAIR, drums ; Guy PEDERSEN, double-bass.
Le
Cœur des Etoiles - Suite Provençale -
Les Ames errantes - Divertissement en do mineur -
Le Jardin des Méditations - Variation 3 - L'Offrande
Originelle - Des Générations par Millions.
