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Debussy, Richard Strauss and Chausson

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra plays Debussy's Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune, Chausson's Symphony in B flat and, with Renaud Capu莽on, Richard Strauss's Violin Concerto.

Debussy's famous and famously erotic 1894 Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune begins this concert from Denmark.

Very little in Richard Strauss's early Violin Concerto anticipates his better-known music and the piece needs the help of a persuasive advocate, which it gets here with Renaud Capu莽on as the soloist.

To end, music by a friend of Debussy. Ernest Chausson, like so many French composers of the late 19th century, became obsessed with Wagner but later tried to find a new, more French path. But with its irresistible swagger and full-blooded romantic melodies underpinned by lush harmony, Chausson's Symphony in B flat still has a whiff of the Teutonic. It's the only symphony he wrote before his life came to an abrupt end in 1899 at the age of 44 when he and his bicycle hit a wall.

Recorded in September at the DR Concert House, Copenhagen, and introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Debussy: Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune
Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 8
Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B flat, op. 20

Renaud Capu莽on (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

1 hour, 58 minutes

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Mon 4 Dec 2023 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev.

  • Richard Strauss

    Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev.

  • Richard Strauss

    Daphne-Etude for solo violin, TrV 272b

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pour le piano

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Stephen Osborne - Etudes & Pour le piano, by Claude Debussy.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Symphony in B flat major, Op. 20

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev.

  • Claude Debussy

    Preludes (excerpts books 1 & 2)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • PLPR.

Broadcast

  • Mon 4 Dec 2023 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3