Debussy: Reveries de Bilitis-Music for Two Harps and Voice

 
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Debussy: Reveries de Bilitis-Music for Two Harps and Voice
Duo Bilitis

[ Brilliant Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 13 April 2018

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To celebrate the Debussy-year 2018 (100 years after his death) the Duo Bilitis presents a highly original and attractive program: arrangements for two harps and voice of some very intimate and atmospheric works by the French master: the Danse sacrée et danse profane (originally for harp and ensemble), the Six Epigraphes antiques, the early romantic Ballade, the Proses lyriques and the famous Chansons de Bilitis, which gives the CD its title: Rêveries de Bilitis (Dreams of Bilitis).

The Duo Bilitis consist of mezzo-soprano/harpist Ekaterina Levental and harpist Eva Tebbe, already a duo for many years and with two highly successful CD's to their name: L'Heure Espagnol (works by Ravel, Granados, De Falla) and Le jardin féerique (works by Debussy, Franck, Ravel and Fauré). They perfectly catch the dreamlike world of Debussy's language, finding unheard sonorities and timbres in their enchanting arrangements.

The booklet contains liner notes in English and Dutch.

Tracks:

Danse sacrée et danse profane (1904)
for two harps (arr. Ekaterina Levental)
1. Danse sacrée 4'28
2. Danse profane 5'00

Proses lyriques (1892/93) for voice and two harps (arr. Ekaterina Levental)
3. De rêve 5'55
4. De grêve 3'28
5. De fleurs 4'59
6. De soir 3'55

7. Ballade (1890) for two harps
(arr. Eva Tebbe) 6'26

Trois Chansons de Bilitis (1897)
for voice and two harps
(arr. E. Tebbe/E. Levental)
8. La flûte de Pan 2'40
9. La Chevelure 3'20
10. Le tombeau des Naïades 2'36

Six Epigraphes Antiques (1914)
for two harps (arr. Eva Tebbe)
11. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été 2'15
12. Pour un tombeau sans nom 3'24
13. Pour que la nuit soit propice 2'22
14. Pour la danseuse aux crotales 2'42
15. Pour L'Égyptienne 2'54
16. Pour remercier la pluie au matin 2'26

Total time 59'07