Claude Debussy/Henri Büsser - Petite Suite, L. 65
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- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) / Henri Büsser (1872 - 1973) - Petite Suite, L. 65 (1886 - 1889, orch. 1907)
I. En bateau [0:00]
II. Cortège [3:48]
III. Menuet [6:58]
IV. Ballet [9:51]
Orchestra National de Lyon, Jun Märkl (2010)
Claude Debussy's Petite Suite is a set of four pieces for piano four-hands. The set was orchestrated, with Debussy's approval, by Henri Büsser. A typical performance lasts around 12 minutes.
"The Petite Suite of 1889 is probably the least characteristic work by Debussy to have found a place in the enduring repertory. Another year would pass before his personal sound became consistently imprinted-in, for example, the Deux Arabesques and Suite bergamasque for piano (both ca. 1890) on the route to such masterpieces of the ensuing decade as the Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un faune (1891-94), Nocturnes (1897-99), and the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (1893-1902). We do, however, get a momentary glance toward the later Debussy in the opening movement of Petite Suite, En Bateau (In a Boat), where passing ripples of sixteenth notes trace the suggestion of a whole-tone scale. But in general these four movements seem more of a tribute to, or an impersonation of, other French masters of the time. The overall impression of En Bateau derives from its long-spanning melody that glides above rolled chords-a sound that evokes Gabriel Fauré more than it does the later Debussy. The title En Bateau must refer to the poem of that name that had appeared in 1869 in the collection Fêtes galantes by Paul Verlaine, Debussy’s favorite poet-an erotic text whose scene is set on a skiff that floats across dreamy, moonlit water.
'Cortège,' another poem from that Verlaine collection, pictures a genteel lady preceded by her pet monkey, the train of her dress carried by a helper. Debussy’s instrumental reaction is at once energized and insouciant, its melody perhaps suggesting the monkey and attendant, its little eruptions depicting the comic aspect of this ceremony. Whose music does this resemble? Surely it is the Georges Bizet of L’Arlésienne.
The third and fourth movements have no specific connection to Verlaine, although the Menuet inhabits the same enchanted Watteau-and-Fragonard landscape that informs much of Fêtes galantes. Here we sense the Classical elegance of Jules Massenet, who had summoned up eighteenth-century manners so effectively in his then-recent operatic hit Manon (1884). For his finale, Ballet, Debussy seems to pay obeisance to Léo Delibes, a distinguished ballet composer whose gravity-defying scores are filled with grace, and to Emmanuel Chabrier, the master of optimistic clarity.
Debussy’s Petite Suite was published in its original four-hands version in 1889, and transcriptions for solo piano and for violin and piano appeared in 1906. What catapulted it to true popularity, however, was its 1907 adaptation for chamber orchestra by Henri Büsser (1872-1973). Throughout his long life of 101 years, Büsser played an important supporting role in French musical life, remaining sharp and involved to the very end. As a youngster he had studied organ with César Franck and composition with Gounod, Massenet, and Guiraud. In 1905 he was named chief conductor of the Paris Opéra, and in 1939 he became director of the Opéra-Comique. He twice recorded his orchestral version of Debussy’s Petite Suite: in 1931 with the Orchestre Straram and in 1952 with the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française.
On the occasion of his hundredth birthday, Büsser gave a long filmed interview to the ORTF (Office National de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française) in which he recounted approaching Debussy: 'Dear Debussy, wouldn’t you be so good as to give me the right, the permission to orchestrate your Petite Suite? I have the orchestration already in my head!' 'Oh!' he said to me, 'you can’t know the joy you bring me; with my whole heart I authorize you to do this!'
The music takes on a vivid cast through Büsser’s orchestration. In En Bateau, a solo flute spins out the long melody against murmuring rolled chords in the harp-a quintessentially French (and Debussian) sound-and the flute also gives voice to the fleeting whole-tone allusions in the veiled timbre produced at the bottom of its range. In Cortège, woodwinds endow the lines with snappy gusto, and the brasses join in briefly to add a touch of brilliance. English horn adds its pungent tone to the Menuet, and tambourine adds a touch of pizzazz to the Ballet. Debussy was fond of this orchestration, and he programmed it himself as a touring conductor."
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This orchestration is magically beautiful! It brings tears to my eyes.
This is such a beautiful piece of music. It makes me feel like I'm in a peaceful garden with Jesus, wear everything is perfect. Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful music
this sounds beautiful
Thank you so much ! This orchestration is pure gold...
Great suite, perfect interpretation. Never better.
Listening to this with headphones and it's great
A very delightful rendition! Thank you!
I first heard this, in part, on the Robin Williams movie Bicentennial Man, and fell in love with what little i heard, and yet, sadly, it wasn't even in the soundtrack. But fortunately, it was listed in the ending credits.
5:10 That clarinet entrance... lol perfection
Мне очень понравилось! Спасибо большое
Absolutely glorious
This makes me feel like a little kid with whacky imagination
stopped listening when they put ads in the middle of the music piece. I'll l look for another to listen to. They lost my interest!
4:47 feels like the emerald city(1939)
Ballet feels like Snow White Soundtrack(Disney)
1:57