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Debussy: Reveries de Bilitis - Music for Two Harps & Voice / Duo Bilitis
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Debussy: Reveries de Bilitis - Music for Two Harps & Voice / Duo Bilitis

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Composer
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE
Artist
DUO BILITIS
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
May 25, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95657
UPC
5028421956572

About

Harpists Eva Tebbe and Ekaterina Levental remark that Debussy makes the invisible visible and turns the unspeakable into a musical world full of mysticism, layers of ambiguity and evocative meanings. A century after his death, he is being celebrated across the world in 2018, and this album promises to make a special contribution on record with arrangements of works, most of them relatively unfamiliar, which particularly lend themselves to the ethereal and exquisite combination of voice and harps. Much of the music here was written while Debussy was composing his only opera Pelléas et Mélisande, a Symbolist drama based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, who recognized that in many ways Debussy had not only set his play to music but even outstripped and further enriched his original. There is the early and peaceful Ballade from 1890, then the Proses lyriques from 1892-3 and the seductive Trois Chansons de Bilitis (1897), from which this musical partnership takes its name. Bilitis is the fictional poet of Classical antiquity invented by Pierre Louÿs, writing in an erotic, symbolist vein after the fashion of Sappho: and when in 1900 Debussy came to use the texts of Louÿs again for the Musique de Scène pour les chansons de Bilitis, the music accompanied a tableau vivant in pre-Raphaelite style of winsome and scantily clothed young women. The recital is completed by the Danse sacrée et danse profane – originally composed for harp and orchestra in 1904, here with the orchestral parts arranged for a second harp – and the six Epigraphes Antiques from 1914, which return to the musical material of the Bilitis works but in the composer’s more allusive late style which would lead to his final masterpiece written for Serge Diaghilev, Jeux.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 Danse sacree 04:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    Danse sacree
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  2. 2 Danse profane 05:04
    Track
    2
    Title
    Danse profane
    Duration
    05:04
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  3. 3 No. 1. De reve 05:55
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1. De reve
    Duration
    05:55
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  4. 4 No. 2. De greve 03:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 2. De greve
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  5. 5 No. 3. De fleurs 04:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 3. De fleurs
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  6. 6 No. 4. De soir 03:59
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 4. De soir
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  7. 7 Ballade (arr. E. Tebbe for 2 harps) 06:26
    Track
    7
    Title
    Ballade (arr. E. Tebbe for 2 harps)
    Duration
    06:26
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  8. 8 No. 1. La flûte de Pan 02:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1. La flûte de Pan
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  9. 9 No. 2. La chevelure 03:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. La chevelure
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  10. 10 No. 3. Le tombeau des naïades 02:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 3. Le tombeau des naïades
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  11. 11 No. 1. Pour invoquer Pan 02:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. Pour invoquer Pan
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  12. 12 No. 2. Pour un tombeau sans nom 03:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. Pour un tombeau sans nom
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  13. 13 No. 3. Pour que la nuit soit propice 02:22
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 3. Pour que la nuit soit propice
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  14. 14 No. 4. Pour la danseuse aux crotales 02:42
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 4. Pour la danseuse aux crotales
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  15. 15 No. 5. Pour l'egyptienne 02:55
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 5. Pour l'egyptienne
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis
  16. 16 No. 6. Pour remercier la pluie au matin 02:26
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 6. Pour remercier la pluie au matin
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Duo Bilitis