Chansons de Bilitis [sound recording] / Claude Debussy. Socrate / Erik Satie

Author: Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Uniform Title: Chansons de Bilitis (Incidental music)
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Candide, [1969]
Physical Description: 1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Creators: Escribano, María Thérèse, Cerha, Friedrich, Satie, Erik, 1866-1925, and Ensemble "Die Reihe."

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Subject(s)

Monologues with music (Celesta, flutes (2), harps (2))
Oratorios
Incidental music

Note

Durations: 15 min., 10 sec. ; ca. 34 min.
Poems by P. Louys, narrated wirh acc. by celesta, 2 flute and 2 harps (1st work).
"Symphonic drama with voice in three parts" based on fragments from Plato's dialogues (2nd work).
Program notes by Darius Milhaud and texts of the poems inserted.
Sung in French.

Participant/Performer Note

Marie-Thérèse Escribano, narrator (1st work), soprano (2d work) ; Ensemble Die Reihe ; Friedrich Cerha, conductor.

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