Paul Paray – Debussy: Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune & Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (180g LP)

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What exactly is a faun and what does he do in the afternoon? Claude Debussy gives us a musical answer to this question by sending off the lecherous rural deity of fertility to have his pleasure with two sleeping nymphs.

The bewitching sound of flutes and harps along with lilting melodies accompany the god while on the hunt.

With its delectable, filigree themes, it is hardly surprising that this composition has continued to inspire choreographic interpretations since its conception.

Composed, however, as a symphonic poem, the “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune”, with its iridescent tonal colouring and varying moods, is a sheer delight to the ear alone.Emotions of a cheerful kind are evoked by Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales with their Viennese verve.

The eight compositions are filled with every sort of joy and bliss that a waltz can offer.

The one is sharply contoured, the next is sweetly sentimental, another dreamy, this one is hurried, yet another sweeps along with elegance – and the instrumentation in each case is gloriously sonorous.This album closes with the solemnly magnificent “Le Tombeau de Couperin” and thus offers a both representative and delightful choice of modern French works.Recording: April 1959 in Paradise Theatre and December 1955 in Old Orchestra Hall, bothDetroit, USA, by C.R.

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Paul Paray

Conductor

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

A1Prélude à L'après-midi D'un FauneComposed By – Claude Debussy
A2Valses Nobles Et SentimentalesComposed By – Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau De CouperinComposed By – Maurice Ravel
B11. Prélude
B22. Forlane
B33. Menuet
B44. Rigaudon
Petite SuiteComposed By – Claude Debussy
B51. En Baleau
B62. Menuet
B73. Cortège
B84. Ballet
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