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A journey to Debussy's Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune

A playlist to map Debussy's Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune, journeying through the sound worlds of Guillaume de Machaut, Toru Takemitsu, Philip Glass and Alma Mahler.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the musical terrain around Debussy's Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune, exploring it through a playlist of connected sound worlds. Following its pastoral song-lines and states of bliss, desire and reverie in music from Machaut and Alma Mahler to Takemitsu and Glass, Sara builds a sonic landscape around Debussy鈥檚 sultry symphonic poem.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Sun 1 Sep 2024 13:30

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Fetes d'H茅b茅: La Danse: Musette et Tambourin en rondeau pour Terpsichore

    Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major - Pastoral, 1st mvt

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape op.27: II Lento e molto tranquillo

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • DECCA.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Samson and Delilah - Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Carmen Fantasie II: L'amour est une oiseux rebelle

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: James Levine.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Amours me fait desirer

    Ensemble: Ensemble Musica Nova.
    • AEON.
  • Philip Glass

    Etudes No.2

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Music Arranger: Christian Badzura. Ensemble: Siggi String Quartet.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Laue Sommernacht

    Singer: Francesca Chiejina. Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Syrinx

    Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.
    • TELARC.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Air

    Performer: Aur猫le Nicolet.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Act II Forest Murmurs

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • Trad.

    I've been workin' on the railroad

    Performer: Pete Seeger.
    • OLYMPIC RECORDS.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Urlicht (Symphony no.2)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture, Op.26 "Fingal's Cave"

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • HYPERION.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Apr 2024 13:30
  • Sun 1 Sep 2024 13:30