All this week on Classic Drive, Lorcan will feature music from 'Debussy: String Quartet & Sonatas' by The Nash Ensemble.
Currently celebrating its 60th-anniversary season, The Nash Ensemble here delivers accounts of Debussy's String Quartet & Sonatas. Besides that early quartet and the three sonatas which date from the composer’s final years, the programme also includes a rare outing for David Walter’s chamber ensemble arrangement of the Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. Scored for twelve players (single strings and winds, plus harp and crotales), this is an idiomatic version which loses none of the mastery and languor of the orchestral original.
Tracklist
- Debussy (arr.Walter): Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L87
- Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor, L148 - i. Allegro vivo
- ii. Intermède. Fantasque et léger
- iii. Finale. Très animé
- Sonata for flute, viola and harp, L145, i. Pastorale Lento, dolce
- ii. Interlude. Tempo di minuetto
- iii. Finale. Allegro moderato ma risoluto
- Debussy: Cello Sonata in D Minor, CD 144 i. Prologue. Lent, sostenuto et molto risoluto
- ii. Sérénade. Modérément animé
- iii. Finale. Animé, léger et nerveux
- Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91, i. Animé et très décidé
- ii. Scherzo. Assez vif et bien rythmé
- iii. Andantino, doucement expressif
- iv. Très modéré – Très mouvementé – Très