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

  1. Debussy (arr.Walter): Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L87
  2. Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor, L148 - i. Allegro vivo
  3. ii. Intermède. Fantasque et léger
  4. iii. Finale. Très animé
  5. Sonata for flute, viola and harp, L145, i. Pastorale Lento, dolce
  6. ii. Interlude. Tempo di minuetto
  7. iii. Finale. Allegro moderato ma risoluto
  8. Debussy: Cello Sonata in D Minor, CD 144 i. Prologue. Lent, sostenuto et molto risoluto
  9. ii. Sérénade. Modérément animé
  10. iii. Finale. Animé, léger et nerveux
  11. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91, i. Animé et très décidé
  12. ii. Scherzo. Assez vif et bien rythmé
  13. iii. Andantino, doucement expressif
  14. iv. Très modéré – Très mouvementé – Très

Tune in at 5:20 everyday this week to hear a selection from this album on Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive.