Fetes

SKU: FA.MFCD014PN

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Fetes galantes was actually planned as a hybrid opera-ballet to a libretto by Debussy's friend Louis Laloy. For this, Laloy arranged selected poetry by Paul Verlaine into three tableaux, replacing an earlier (unstarted) Debussyan project with Charles Morice entitled Crimen amoris. During his last productive summer of 1915, Debussy set a sequence from the start of the first tableau, 'Les Masques', involving stanzas 1 and 3 of the opening song for Mezzetin in Verlaine's comedy Les Uns et les autres. The action is set in a park a la Watteau late one summer afternoon as Mezzetin attempts to entertain a group of nonchalant masqueraders with only the aid of his voice and a mandolin.

This appears to have been prefaced by a slower, elegiac introduction reminiscent of the opening of the comtemporary Cello Sonata and it leads to a danced minuet by the masqued dancers which has clear echoes of the piano piece L'Isle Joyeuse (1904). Following Laloy's scenario, the mas-queraders then sing extracts from Verlaine's 'A la promenade' (from Fetes galantes itself). The minuet returns at greater length before being cut short by a chilly gust of wind, after which the park returns to its orginal state (and music) as though nothing had really happened.

SKU: LM.C06038

ISBN 9790230360388.

CERTON P. : Je n'ose le dire - HAENDEL G.F. : Ch'io mai vi possa - BACH J.S. : Recitatif (extrait de La passion selon St Jean) - BACH J.S. : Choral (extrait de La passion selon St Jean) - GLUCK C.W. : Air (extrait de Orfeo et Euridice) - MOZART W. A. : Duo (extrait de La Flute enchantee) - BERLIOZ H. : Air de Marguerite (extrait de La Damnation de Faust) - SCHUMANN R. : Du Ring an meinem Finger - SCHUMANN R. : Ich grolle nicht - LISZT F. : O lieb' so lang du lieben kannst - OFFENBACH J. : Ah que les hommes sont betes (extrait de La Perichole) - BIZET G. : La chanson boheme (extrait de Carmen) - RIMSKI-KORSAKOV N. : Scheherazade (extrait) - MASSENET J. : Meditation (extrait de Thais) - DEBUSSY C. : En sourdine (extrait des Fetes galantes) - KOECHLIN C. : N'est-ce pas ? - POULENC F. : Une ruine coquille vide - WEILL K. : Salomonsong (extrait de l'Opera de quatre sous) - Depp river (negro spiritual).

SKU: HL.48184480

Andre Bloch: Meou Tan Yin (Fetes des Pivoines) (Trumpet & Piano).

SKU: TM.06436SC

Menuet-Plantee, Musette-Fetes D'Hebe, Tambourin-Fetes D'Hebe.

SKU: HL.50565843

PNODT inches. English-French.

This critical edition of the Petite Suite is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series I, volume 9. The titles of the movements of the Petite Suite, 'Cortege' and 'Ballet', evoke the universe of both the Premiere Suite d'orchestreand Fetes galantes by Paul Verlaine ('Cortege' and 'En bateau'), several poems from which Debussy began to set as early as 1882.The contract that Debussy signed with the editors Durand, Schoenewerk & Cie for the Petite Suite is dated 8 December 1888. The work appeared at the beginning of the following year; the 'depot legal', (legal deposit) of the work, was accomplished on12 February 1889. It is difficult to believe that the Petite Suite, which became one of Durand's bestselling items during the composer's lifetime, was at first not appreciated by those who heard it.

Claude Debussy's Petite Suite for Piano 4-hands.

SKU: TM.07252TPS

Menuet-Plantee, Musette-Fetes D'Hebe, Tambourin-Fetes D'Hebe.

SKU: HL.48180133

From Les Fetes d'Hebe.

SKU: TM.10192SC

Entree, Minuets, Bouree, Passepieds Dance.