{"id":44105,"date":"2024-06-21T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/f83b13aa-ba2f-4f1b-a1d8-843f049d12f9"},"modified":"2024-06-25T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:36:13","slug":"the-work-that-tore-up-the-orchestral-rulebook-and-the-version-you-need-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/the-work-that-tore-up-the-orchestral-rulebook-and-the-version-you-need-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"The work that tore up the orchestral rulebook… and the version you need to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Friday, 21 June 2024 at 11:28 AM<\/p>

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It’s a sultry, Impressionistic orchestral masterpiece. But it’s much more than that. The Pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 l’apr\u00e8s-midi d’un faune<\/em>, by the great French composer Claude Debussy<\/a><\/strong>, was what we’d now call a ‘disruptor’ to the musical landscape of the very late 19th and early 20th century. With its apparent lack of structure and almost improvisatory feel, it deserves the epithet given by one famous fellow French composer, that \u2018modern music was awakened by L\u2019apr\u00e8s-midi d\u2019un faune<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>

What is Debussy\u2019s Pr\u00e9lude a l\u2019apr\u00e8s-midi d\u2019un faune<\/em>?<\/strong><\/h2>It is a symphonic poem (or tone poem<\/a><\/strong>), based on St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s 1865 poem L\u2019apr\u00e8s-midi d\u2019un faune<\/em>. Beginning with an alluring, chromatic solo on the flute, it then intoxicates the listener over ten minutes with its lushly layered score depicting a faun enjoying the pleasures of a warm afternoon.<\/p>