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Various - Les Musiques De Courbet

Various - Les Musiques De Courbet

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This 2CD set is being released to mark a major exhibition in Paris this Autumn of the work of the great French painter Gustave Courbet. The music has been chosen to reflect the artists astonishing range of subjects, styles, and formats, and the composers featured include Debussy, Bizet, Wagner and Berlioz. Music is not an art that Courbet practised or which directly influenced his painting. Other artists such as the painter Maurice Denis or the poet Stéphane Mallarmé had a much more direct relationship with music. Many of their works are musical in inspiration, or were themselves transposed into musical terms. A Woman's Life and Loves by Maurice Denis makes direct reference to Schumann's song-cycle Frauenliebe und leben, while Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune bears the name of Mallarmé's poem. In Courbet this direct reference is replaced by an indirect reference which is nevertheless perceptible throughout his career. His output displays an astonishing range of subjects, styles, and formats. It conveys a well-nigh revolutionary creative force which may well recall that of the great watersheds marked by the creations of Beethoven, Berlioz, and Wagner. This ability to set one's face against tradition, indeed to break with it, is symptomatic of genius only if it points the way to a new path of lasting value. It is a powerful gift that Courbet shares with Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner, who, along with other composers, will accompany this musical journey through his painting. Artists Featured: Laurent Korcia, Anne Gastinel, François-Frédéric Guy, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Grigory Sokolov, Laurent Cabasso, Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre national de France, Bernard Haitink, Evgueny Svetlanov, Accentus, Laurence Equilbey.
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Release Date:
2012-01-09
Publication Date:
2012-01-09
Publisher:
Naive
Languages:
Published: English
Weight:
109 g
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