Debussy - Le Roi Lear - Ricciotti Ensemble

Debussy - Musiques pour Le Roi Lear
I Fanfare
II Le sommeil de Lear

Arranged for the Ricciotti Ensemble by Hinse Mutter

Debussy wrote some five minutes of music for a presentation of King Lear in 1904. Unfortunately, he did not go farther than two excerpts: a powerful fanfare of a minute and a half which opens and closes with loud trumpets and percussion surrounding a central section of a more pensive nature, and a three-minute intermezzo called "Le Sommeil de Lear" (Lear Asleep), an excerpt of meditative but uneasy atmosphere. ~ Hector Bellman, Rovi

Performed by the Ricciotti Ensemble under the baton of Gijs Kramers, on the 4th of January 2012 in the Triavium in Nijmegen, during the orchestra's 'Literatour'.

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