Episode 4
Donald Macleod considers Dukas's collaboration with Belgian poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck on the celebrated opera Ariane et Barbe-bleu.
With Donald Macleod
Paul Dukas' scholarship and work as a music critic may well have encouraged him to compose the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a theme by Rameau. But the diversity of Dukas' activities also probably contributed to the long gestation period for his only opera, Ariane et Barbe-bleue, hailed by Vincent d'Indy as the most important piece of theatrical music since Wagner's music-dramas!
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Claude Debussy
Hommage à Haydn
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut
- Chandos 8578.
- 1.
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Paul Dukas
Prélude Elégiaque sur le nom d'Haydn
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
- Chandos 8578.
- 2.
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Paul Dukas
Variations, Interlude et Finale
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
- Chandos 8765.
- 1 to 14.
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Paul Dukas
Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (excerpt from Act 1)
Performer: Lori Phillips (soprano) Performer: Patricia Bardon (mezzo soprano) Performer: Daphne Touchais (soprano) Performer: Ana James (soprano) Performer: Sarah-Jane Davies (soprano) Performer: Peter Rose (bass) Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leon Botstein (conductor)
- Telarc 857 3880512.
- 3 to 6.
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- Thu 3 Mar 201112:00BBC Radio 3
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