Composer: Benjamin Britten, Claude Achille Debussy
Performer: Sofie Asplund, LuKaS – Lunds Kammarsolister
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Prophone
Catalogue: SCD1176
Release: 2021
Size: 752 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Britten: Les Illuminations, Op. 18
01. I. Fanfare
02. II. Villes
03. III. Phrase
04. IV. Antique
05. V. Royauté
06. VI. Marine
07. VII. Interlude
08. VIII. Being Beauteous
09. IX. Parade
10. X. Départ
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées
11. I. C’est l’extase langoureuse
12. II. Il pleure dans mon coeur
13. III. L’ombre des arbres
14. IV. Paysages belges. Chevaux de bois
15. V. Aquarelles – Green
16. VI. Aquarelles – Spleen
17. Debussy: Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque)
Bringing together Benjamin Britten’s Les Illiuminations and Claude Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées is like peeking behind the door to one of the most mythical bedrooms in literary history. There sit the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, working frantically away. They write on loose sheets of paper, promissory notes and receipts. The ink drips, the papers are full of wine stains and food scraps. They are unwashed and unshaven. They drink, quarrel and sleep with each other. Verlaine writes texts that will be included in the collection of poems Romances sans paroles, taken by Debussy as a starting point for Ariettes oubliées. The poems that Rimbaud is working on will much later be published as Les Illuminations.