A journey to Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
A playlist to map Debussy's Prélude à l'après-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 Prélude à l'après-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’s sultry symphonic poem.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Fetes d'Hébé: La Danse: Musette et Tambourin en rondeau pour Terpsichore
Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 6 in F major - Pastoral, 1st mvt
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Sussex Landscape op.27: II Lento e molto tranquillo
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.- DECCA.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Samson and Delilah - Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix
Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Georges Prêtre.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasie II: L'amour est une oiseux rebelle
Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: James Levine.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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Guillaume de Machaut
Amours me fait desirer
Ensemble: Ensemble Musica Nova.- AEON.
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Philip Glass
Etudes No.2
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Christian Badzura. Ensemble: Siggi String Quartet.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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Alma Mahler-Werfel
Laue Sommernacht
Singer: Francesca Chiejina. Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.- CHANDOS.
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Claude Debussy
Syrinx
Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.- TELARC.
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Toru Takemitsu
Air
Performer: Aurèle Nicolet.- PHILIPS.
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Richard Wagner
Siegfried Act II Forest Murmurs
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.- DECCA.
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Trad.
I've been workin' on the railroad
Performer: Pete Seeger.- OLYMPIC RECORDS.
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Gustav Mahler
Urlicht (Symphony no.2)
Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Claude Debussy
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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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鶹Լ Radio 3
- Sun 1 Sep 2024 13:30鶹Լ Radio 3