Claude Debussy News
French classical composer (1862–1918)
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- opera, classical music, impressionist music
- Second French Empire, French Third Republic, France
- composer, pianist, music critic
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2024-04-23
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2024-04-22 09:09:00
The Celestial Stranger: new song cycle inspired by Thomas Traherne's recently discovered manuscript
[…] doing to the planet, perhaps, but no less relevant of that…". The work is a joint BBC Radio 3 and National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) commission and the Dublin premiere will be next year.Stephen McNeff's The Celestial Stranger will be premiered by Gavan Ring and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Joana Carneiro at Hodinott Hall, Cardiff on 16 May 2024 as part of a concert including Gabriel Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande (music from the Maurice Maeterlinck that would inspire Debussy's opera), and Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Full details from the BBC website.
2024-04-21 14:00:00
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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] 19 April 2024, the Young Artists got their chance to perform their own selection of song at the Howard Assembly Room. Aksel Ryvkin (baritone) and Zany Denyer (piano) began with two Schubert songs; Der Wanderer an den Mond, full of swagger and melancolia with great works, and Die Mutter Erde, serious and intense with a lovely, well-supported line. Then Felicitas Wrede (soprano) and Abhisri Chaudhuri (piano) took us to France, with an intense account of Debussy's Beau Soir with a lovely sense fragility in tone, followed by the first three of Ravel's Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques. The first suprisingly sober and intent but with a vibrant vibrato colouring the tone, the second plangent and the third wonderfully vivid. Wrede really invested in the songs, inhabiting the performance space.Anusha Merrin (soprano) and Chunmeng Ge (piano) continued with more Debussy and his contemporary Amy Beach (she was just six year younger). Debussy's Nuit d'etoiles was poised […]
2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] These were to the fore in a delightful account of Le Papillon et la fleur with Gilchrist creating a real mini-drama, and not a little camp too.Next a selection of songs from Lili Boulanger's Clairières dans le cie; written in 1914 when the composer was just 21 and setting the Symbolist poet, Francis Jammes (1868-1938). These are highly perfumed songs, intimate and with a sense of emotion remembered in quietness. This is Fauré in excelsis with hints of Debussy, yet a developing voice that was Boulanger's own. The heady atmosphere began with Elle était descendue followed by the concentrated intent of Si tout ceci with its Wagnerian references in the piano. Nous nous aimerons was all luminous harmony and the group ended with the luscious, seductive textures of Vous m’avez regardé.The second half began with a group of songs by Mahler, in lighter mood than usual, all taken from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Gilchrist made Ablösung im Sommer a delightful mini-drama, full of narrative […]
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