Debussy - Six Épigraphes Antiques, Sarabande, La Boîte à Joujoux (reference record.: Armin Jordan)

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918) - Orchestral Works.
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SIX EPIGRAPHES ANTIQUES (Orchestration: Ernest Ansermet)
00:00 I - Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été
02:36 II - Pour un tombeau sans nom
06:14 III - Pour que la nuit soit propice
08:29 IV - Pour la danseuse aux crotales
10:58 V - Pour l'Egyptienne
14:06 VI - Pour remercier la pluie au matin

16:27 SARABANDE (Orchestration: Maurice Ravel)

LA BOITE A JOUJOUX
Ballet pour Enfants Argument : André Hellé (Orchestration achevée par André Caplet)
21:26 I. Prélude le Sommeil de la Boîte
23:55 II. Premier tableau : La Maison des Jouets
35:13 III. Deuxième tableau : Le Champ de Bataille
44:23 IV. Troisième tableau : La Bergerie à vendre
50:17 V. Quatrième tableau : Après Fortune faite
52:31 VI. Epilogue

Basler Sinfonie Orchester
Direction: Armin Jordan
Recorded in 1981, at Bâle (Switzerland)
New mastering in 2021 by AB for CM//RR
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In 1900, Debussy had written some incidental music for his friend Pierre Louys' Chansons de Bilitis (from which he had set three poems a couple of years earlier), for the unusual combination of two flutes, two harps and a celesta. This remained unpublished till recently. Nor was it known until 1932 that it had any links with the Six Epigraphes antiques, which Debussy :omposed in 1914, reshaping the musical natter of his earlier score for piano four hands, and bringing it up to the level of his supreme stylistic maturity. These six short pieces, the two longest of which only reach some sixty bars, were certainly conceived as a cyclic whole, as shown by the succession of tempi and tonalities, and by the return of the theme of the first piece to round off the last. In a letter to his publisher Jacques Durand, dated July 11th, 1914, Debussy explains : « Some time ago, I intended to turn it into an orchestral Suite, but the times are hard, and life harder still for me. » In 1932, Ernest Ansermet fulfilled the composer's wish, and this beautiful and far too seldom heard orchestral version is recorded here. *Click to activate the English subtitles for the complete presentation* (00:00-03:23)

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