La mer ; Music for King Lear ; Children's corner ; Première rapsodie ; Six épigraphes antiques / Debussy.

Format:

Datafile

Author/Creator:

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.

Contributor:

Roger-Ducasse, 1873-1954, arranger of music.

Caplet, André, 1878-1925, arranger of music.

Ansermet, Ernest, 1883-1969, arranger of music.

Plane, Robert, performer.

Otaka, Tadaaki, 1947- conductor.

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, performer.

Standardized Title:

Orchestra music. Selections

Subjects (All):

Incidental music.

Orchestral music, Arranged.

Clarinet with orchestra, Arranged.

Suites (Orchestra), Arranged.

Symphonic poems.

Genre:

Orchestral music, Arranged.

Physical Description:

1 computer optical disc : sound, color & bw ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Music for King Lear

Children's corner

Epigraphes antiques

Six épigraphes antiques

Title (2nd work) on container: King Lear

Place of Publication:

[London] : BBC Music Magazine, 2001.

System Details:

System requirements: 486 or faster PC with Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT; at least 8Mb RAM; approx. 6Mb free hard disk space ; at least 256-color 640x480 display; CD-Extra compatible CD-ROM drive; soundcard and speakers or link to hi-fi; mouse. The audio portion of the disc may be played in a standard CD player.

data file

Contents:

Music for King Lear. Fanfare d'ouverture ; Le sommeil de Lear

Children's corner. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum ; Jimbo's lullaby ; Serenade for the doll ; The snow is dancing ; The little shepherd ; Golliwogg's cake-walk

Première rapsodie : for clarinet and orchestra

Six épigraphes antiques. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été ; Pour un tombeau sans nom ; Pour que la nuit soit propice ; Pour la danseuse aux crotales ; Pour l'égyptienne ; Pour remercier la pluie au matin

La mer. De l'aube à midi sur la mer ; Jeux de vagues ; Dialogue du vent et de la mer.

Participant:

Robert Plane, clarinet (3rd work) ; BBC National Orchestra of Wales ; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor.

Notes:

For order of performance, see below. The 1st work incidental music "completed and orchestrated by Roger-Ducasse." Cf. New Grove. The 2nd work orig. for piano, orch. by André Caplet. The 3rd work originally for clarinet and piano, arr. for clarinet and orchestra by the composer. The 4th a suite orig. for piano four-hands, orch. by Ernest Ansermet. The 5th work a symphonic poem.

Recorded Feb. 23-25, 2001, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.

Enhanced compact disc (sound recording). Enhancements include: notes on the recordings (with links to each performance) by Roger Nichols; program notes on Debussy and his music by Richard Langham-Smith and Roger Nichols, with links to a time line, a list of key works, and a list of contemporary musicians, artists, and writers; notes on the performers; suggestions for further listening; and "Discovering music" by, in this issue, Stephen Johnson, a continuing series focusing on various single works showing, with audio examples, the techniques composers use to achieve their effects; the work examined on this disc is Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Issued with BBC Music Magazine, v. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2001, in which may be found detailed program notes also found on the disc.

Program notes by Roger Nichols ([8] p.) inserted in container.

Contains:

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Roi Lear.

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Children's corner; arranged

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Rhapsodies, clarinet, piano; arranged.

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Épigraphes antiques; arranged.

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Mer.

OCLC:

249324119