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A journey to Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

A playlist to map Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, journeying through the sound worlds of Guillaume de Machaut, Toru Takemitsu, Philip Glass and Alma Mahler.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the musical terrain around Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, exploring it through a playlist of connected sound worlds. Following its pastoral song-lines and states of bliss, desire and reverie in music from Machaut and Alma Mahler to Takemitsu and Glass, Sara builds a sonic landscape around Debussy’s sultry symphonic poem.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Sun 1 Sep 202413:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Fetes d'Hébé: La Danse: Musette et Tambourin en rondeau pour Terpsichore

    Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major - Pastoral, 1st mvt

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape op.27: II Lento e molto tranquillo

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • DECCA.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Samson and Delilah - Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Georges Prêtre.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Carmen Fantasie II: L'amour est une oiseux rebelle

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: James Levine.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Amours me fait desirer

    Ensemble: Ensemble Musica Nova.
    • AEON.

  • Philip Glass

    Etudes No.2

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Christian Badzura. Ensemble: Siggi String Quartet.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Laue Sommernacht

    Singer: Francesca Chiejina. Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Syrinx

    Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.
    • TELARC.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Air

    Performer: Aurèle Nicolet.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Act II Forest Murmurs

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

  • Trad.

    I've been workin' on the railroad

    Performer: Pete Seeger.
    • OLYMPIC RECORDS.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Urlicht (Symphony no.2)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture, Op.26 "Fingal's Cave"

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Apr 202413:30
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sun 1 Sep 202413:30
    BBC Radio 3