Said Ferruccio Busoni of Debussy’s “Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun”: “It is like a beautiful sunset; it fades as one looks at it.” How’d he mean that?
If you can’t get enough of Debussy (b. 1862), tune in this evening, since it’s his turn to be our Birthday Boy and we will hear a lot of his music: “Beau soir,” played by violinist Elissa Lee Kolyonen and pianist Robert Koening; “La mer,” Pierre Boulez leading the Cleveland Orchestra; Renee Fleming, singing “Mandoline”; a two-piano version of “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune,” performed by Michel Beroff and Jean-Phillippe Collard; Pierre Boulez again, this time leading the New Philharmonia Orchestra as they play “Printemps”; and Sandrine Piau singing “Romance.” We’ll hear a lot from Josef Strauss as well.
Brother to the “Waltz King, J. Strauss II, Josef was no slouch at Viennese charmers himself, as “Village Swallows,” “Dragonfly,” and “Little Chatterbox” will demonstrate. And we mustn’t forget to mention that the Hagen Quartet will be playing Mozart’s String Quartet No. 12, or that Christoph Eschenbach will lead the Bamberg Symphony in Schumann’s Fourth Symphony.
If you can’t get enough of Debussy (b. 1862), tune in this evening, since it’s his turn to be our Birthday Boy and we will hear a lot of his music: “Beau soir,” played by violinist Elissa Lee Kolyonen and pianist Robert Koening; “La mer,” Pierre Boulez leading the Cleveland Orchestra; Renee Fleming, singing “Mandoline”; a two-piano version of “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune,” performed by Michel Beroff and Jean-Phillippe Collard; Pierre Boulez again, this time leading the New Philharmonia Orchestra as they play “Printemps”; and Sandrine Piau singing “Romance.” We’ll hear a lot from Josef Strauss as well.
Brother to the “Waltz King, J. Strauss II, Josef was no slouch at Viennese charmers himself, as “Village Swallows,” “Dragonfly,” and “Little Chatterbox” will demonstrate. And we mustn’t forget to mention that the Hagen Quartet will be playing Mozart’s String Quartet No. 12, or that Christoph Eschenbach will lead the Bamberg Symphony in Schumann’s Fourth Symphony.
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