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Download Size: 60 Mb
Running Time: 01:14:07
Release Date: May 2003
Originally recorded in 2003
Frédéric Chopin
Idil Biret
Gioachino Rossini
Patrizia Pace
Gloria Scalchi
Antonino Siragusa
Carlo Colombara
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Pier Giorgio Morandi
Hungarian State Opera Chorus
Jacques Offenbach
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hayman
Georges Bizet
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Donald Johanos
Édouard Lalo
Marat Bisengaliev
Johannes Wildner
Emmanuel Chabrier
Georges Rabol
Alfred Bruneau
Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra
James Lockhart
Claude Debussy
Kodály Quartet
Classical
Instrumental
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Edouard Manet (1832-83) has been called the father of modern painting. In the 1860s he was the leader of a group of young artists who later became known as the Impressionists, though his own work resists any simple label. On this CD, the world of Manet is given a musical perspective with a carefully chosen selection of pieces by the finest composers of his time. Inside, Hugh Griffith provides explanatory notes on his life and musical environment. What music did Edouard Manet listen to as he led art towards impressionism and beyond? Chopin, Rossini, Offenbach, Bizet, Lalo and their contemporaries. It is only too easy to forget how pioneering is the mind of the visual artist in terms of form - and how far behind is music. Debussy (born 1862) only began to emerge as a composer towards the end of Manet's life. Hugh Griffiths also chooses music by the lesser-known Alfred Bruneau, making a unique and revealing compilation.