Transcendent and voluptuous, Claude Debussy's Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune is imbued with a gentle luster that lights the music from within. Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine intermingles birdsong with spiritual mysticism, while Heitor Villa-Lobos' Chôros No. 10 evokes a Brazilian rainforest. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Michael Tilson Thomas for Debussy's Fantaisie--a piano concerto in all but name--inspired by the sounds of Javanese gamelan.
ARTISTS
Michael Tilson Thomas
CONDUCTOR
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
PIANO
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
PROGRAM
Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune
Claude Debussy
Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine
Olivier Messiaen
Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra
Claude Debussy
Chôros No. 10
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Transcendent and voluptuous, Claude Debussy's Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune is imbued with a gentle luster that lights the music from within. Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine intermingles birdsong with spiritual mysticism, while Heitor Villa-Lobos' Chôros No. 10 evokes a Brazilian rainforest. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Michael Tilson Thomas for Debussy's Fantaisie--a piano concerto in all but name--inspired by the sounds of Javanese gamelan.
ARTISTS
Michael Tilson Thomas
CONDUCTOR
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
PIANO
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
PROGRAM
Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune
Claude Debussy
Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine
Olivier Messiaen
Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra
Claude Debussy
Chôros No. 10
Heitor Villa-Lobos
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