Concert

No: 701608
Composer: Claude Debussy
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Production year: 2010-02
Run time: 01:23:00

Leonard Bernstein conducts Debussy

Repertoire

Debussy Images (Rondo, Gigue, Ibéria), La Mer Prélude à l´après-midi d´un faune

Synopsis

With his legendary ability to conjure up magical sonorities, Leonard Bernstein offers his definitive reading of Debussy´s impressionistic sound worlds. His series of concerts with Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome was recorded in 1989, the year before his death, and featured three of the French composer´s masterpieces. Images, La Mer and Prélude à l´après-midi d´un faune, in a feast of Mediterranean sesuality. "Bernstein´s Debussy is neither ethereal nor gelatinous, but uncommonly vital, caught in the full light of the midday sun" (Il Giornale, Rome). "An unprecedented triumph" (La Stampa, Turin). this programme contains A05501888, A05501889