Details
Number 8 Arts Centre
High Street
Pershore
Worcestershire
WR10 1BG
England
Programme
Claude Debussy – Danse sacree et danse profane
Maurice Ravel – Introduction et Allegro
Claude Debussy – Deux Arabesques, L.66
Erik Satie – 3 GymnopĂ©dies
Camille Saint-Saens – Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
Camille Saint-Saens – Fantaisie for Violin and Harp, Op.124
Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin (arr. Linos Piano Trio)
Claude Debussy – The Girl With The Flaxen Hair
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante DefuntĂ©
Performers
David Le Page – violin / director
Eleanor Turner – Harp
Orchestra of the Swan
Programme Note
Although its ‘secular’ half is tinged with a Spanish zing, there is little doubt that Debussy was influenced by Satie’s most famous composition for the ‘sacred’ portion of his ravishing work – commissioned for a clever new type of harp (which never took off). Saint-Saëns, however, was inspired by a vacation on the Italian Riviera (and, of course, our ensemble’s favourite and most graceful bird). Ravel, though, looked to the Baroque for his memorial: whilst his wonderful Introduction and Allegro – commissioned by a rival classical harp manufacturer (who won the day) – was written at speed to avoid missing a boating holiday!