Faure

23 April 2021, Fri

AIR, Goa FM 105.4 Khz

SIESTA TIME 2.30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

https://onlineradiofm.in/goa/panaji/fm-rainbow

HIGHLIGHT

 FAURE

Pelleas and Melisande

Orchestral Suite

Opus 80

 

Movements

1.     00:03   Prelude Quasi adagio                         

2.     06:38   La Fileuse Andantino quasi allegretto  

3.     09:18   Sicilienne Allegro molto moderato

4.     13:24   Morte de Melisande  Molto adagio

 Composed:1898

Duration: 17.06 minutes approx.

 LISTEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbSg0mqLmg

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Directed by Mikko Franck

Paris, 2018

         

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was a French composer. His music bridges Romanticism and ushers in modernism in French music. He studied under Saint-Saens. He wrote a number of orchestral works like Pavane, nocturnes and piano quartets. He is remembered for his Requiem. In the last 20 years of his life he suffered from increasing deafness.

 Pelleas and Melisande is based on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck by the same name.  It is about the forbidden love between Pelleas and Melisande. It was composed for a London production. The first movement is from the prelude to Act I. Golaud’s hunting horn is heard towards the end. The second movement is from the prelude to Act III. Melisande is at the spinning wheel. The third movement is from the prelude to Act II. Melisande drops her wedding ring into the well. The last movement is the prelude to the last act when Melisande dies.

 Pelleas and Melisande was also made into an opera in five acts by Debussy.

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