Perth Festival of the Arts promoting a concert for Reverie: The Life and Loves of Claude Debussy
Date: 20-May-2022
Start time: 7.30pm
Venue:
Perth Theatre, Mill Street, Perth
PH1 5HZ
Further information:
Starring Lucy Parham, piano and Tim McInnerny, narrator.
Scripted by Lucy Parham.
Rêverie evokes Debussy's complex emotional life through a personal and revealing journal, illuminated by a sequence of his most famous and atmospheric solo piano works.
Created in 2012 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy, Rêverie is the fourth biographical programme of composers' words and music to be compiled and scripted by pianist Lucy Parham. A crucial element of Debussy's complex intellectual and emotional world was an entangled love life that brought illicit trysts in Jersey, a brush with a revolver and even a suicide attempt.
One of the most prolific and innovative composers of the early 20th century, Claude Debussy absorbed and transformed cultural influences from countries as far apart as Scotland (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair), Japan (Poissons d'Or) and the USA (Golliwogg's Cake Walk).
The narrative of Rêverie, which takes the form of a personal journal, follows him from his initial success with the Prix de Rome in 1885 to his untimely death in 1918. It is punctuated with solo piano works ranging from the ever-popular lyricism of Clair de Lune, Reverie and The Girl with the Flaxen Hair to such virtuosic showpieces as Jardins sous la Pluie, the Etudes and L'Isle Joyeuse.
Rêverie debuted in Sheffield with Dominic West in 2012 and then received its critically acclaimed London debut in the Wigmore Hall's London Piano Series with Henry Goodman.
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