Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - En blanc

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Fuga Libera
Release Date
November 16, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CONSTANT DEBUSSY
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 16, 2018
    • UPC
      5400439006102
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FUG610
    • LABEL
      Fuga Libera
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (version for 2 pianos)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Jan Michiels, Inge Spinette

    2. Act I: Voici ce qu'il ecrit a son frere Pelleas: un soir, je l'ai trouvee

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Angelique Noldus, Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Lore Binon

    3. Act II: Vous ne savez pas ou je vous ai menee?

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Yves Saelens, Lore Binon, Pierre-Yves Pruvot

    4. Act III: Mes longs cheveux descendent

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Lore Binon, Yves Saelens, Pierre-Yves Pruvot

    5. Act III: Viens, nous allons nous asseoir ici, Yniold

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Camille Bauer, Tijl Faveyts, Lore Binon

    6. Act IV: Pelleas part ce soir

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Tijl Faveyts, Lore Binon

    7. Act IV: C'est le dernier soir …

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Yves Saelens, Lore Binon

    8. Act IV: On dirait que ta voix a passe sur la mer au printemps!

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Yves Saelens, Lore Binon

    9. Act IV: J'ai tué sans raison! …

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Lore Binon, Tijl Faveyts

    10. I. Avec emportement

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Inge Spinette, Jan Michiels

    11. II. Lent. Sombre

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Inge Spinette, Jan Michiels

    12. III. Scherzando

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Inge Spinette, Jan Michiels


Marius Constant, who had an intimate knowledge of DeBussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, published Impressions de Pelléas, published in 1992 an abridged version for six singers and two pianists. In an intense flow of music, he telescopes the five acts with great finesse, removing a few scenes and making a fair number of cuts and a few minimal adjustments to the musical material. For the scenography, he suggested, "We are in an early twentieth-century salon." This reflects the fact that during the genesis of Pelléas, DeBussy regularly played fragments of it for his circle of friends. In this version, both listeners and performers are involuntarily swept towards the origin and essence of DeBussy's masterpiece: a "music of the soul" in which we can all recognize our own Mélisande, Pelléas, Arkel, Geneviève, Yniold and Golaud. This chamber version of the opera is completed by the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in DeBussy's own transcription for two pianos and the suite en blanc et noir. The two pianos used are the new straight-strung instruments built in Belgium by Chris Maene at the request of Daniel Barenboim.