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Debussy – La Mer
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Debussy – La Mer
Composers
Debussy, Claude
Genres
Orchestral
Orchestras / Ensembles
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Periods
Impressionism
Conductors
Shui, Lan
Label
BIS
Catalogue number
BIS-1837 SACD
Release date
2014-09-10
Discs
1
Orig. sample rate
44100Hz/88200Hz/96000Hz
Total time
76:48
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“This is a performance that will thrill and inspire, with moments of tranquil lyricism and others of exhilarating abandon.” MusicWeb-International.com 12/2014
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On this disc, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune – possibly Claude Debussy’s most popular work for orchestra – is framed by two of his greatest achievements in the medium, La Mer and Images pour orchestre. All three works are programmatic, but Debussy’s concern was to create an atmosphere rather than any naturalistic likeness. The Prélude is a case in point – while taking his inspiration from a pastoral poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, Debussy famously told a conductor who wanted a more detailed explanation: ‘It’s a shepherd playing the flute, sitting on his bum in the grass!’ In La Mer, Debussy abstains from the various clichés of so many other musical depictions of water, and instead creates an immediately recognizable seascape, largely through a pioneering use of various instrumental timbres, once described as ‘an impressionism of sounding dots’. Soon after La Mer, the composer started on Images, in which he went even further: although using a large orchestra, Debussy mainly avoids big sonorities, concentrating instead on unusual sound combinations and on transparency. His aim was compose a cycle focusing on the colours of three countries, while as far as possible avoiding the clichés associated with their music. Of its three panels, the expansive middle one, Ibéria, is often performed as an independent piece, but its Spanish colouring takes on new shades when framed by Scottish mists and the freshness of spring in France. The present disc combines new recordings by Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shui with the team’s acclaimed performance of La Mer, first released in 2007 on Seascapes, a programme of sea-related works. The reviewer in American Record Guide called it ‘the most astounding, effective, and beautiful recording of La Mer I have ever heard’ and in BBC Music Magazine it was described as ‘an unequivocally world-class performance’.
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Composer: Debussy, Claude
Images pour orchestre, L118 (1905–12)
38:10
01
I. Gigues
08:40
$ 1.82
USD
02
II. Ibéria - Par les rues et par les chemins
07:10
$ 1.51
USD
03
II. Ibéria - Les parfums de la nuit
09:40
$ 2.03
USD
04
II. Ibéria - Le matin d’un jour de fête
04:38
$ 0.97
USD
05
III. Rondes de printemps
08:02
$ 1.69
USD
06
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L87 (1891–94)
11:23
$ 2.39
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Composer: Debussy, Claude
La Mer, trois esquisses symphoniques, L111 (1903–05)
25:28
07
I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer. Très lent
09:23
$ 1.97
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08
II. Jeux de vagues. Allegro
06:51
$ 1.44
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09
III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer. Animé et tumultueux
09:14
$ 1.94
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Album total
76:48
Composer
Debussy, Claude
Conductor
Shui, Lan
Orchestra
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
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