S2.E46.Chabrier Espana, Haydn Joke Quartet, Wagner Liebestod, Ravel Piano Concerto

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The city of Paris, between the middle and the end of the 19th century, was a burgeoning centre for the arts. This was the time of Victor Hugo, Emil Azola, Guide Maupassant in literature, the Impressionists in painting, and Berlioz Bizet, and the composer of today's opening piece, Alexius Emmanuel Chabier, who spent much of his fifty-three years between 1841 and 1894 in the company of many of these. Marshalls and the one we're going to listen to now, following an extensive trip to many different parts of Spain with his wife Espania. It's full of Spanish dances and folk songs. Charles McCarras conducts the Philharmonia. But imagine listening to his joke quartet for the first time. Maybe this will be your first time now. 18th century audiences would have been left a little confused. I think the joke is fairly obvious, so there's no point in doing anything other than let the music tell it. The Presto, the final movement of Haydn's joke quartet, is played here by the Mdelian string quartet. I can't understand. How is it illuminated by the star? And then I think it's only orchestration. But I gave rise to a small crazy idea by other three minutes for that. It's not quite quite the feet out of the way. It's accompanied by the good stuff, by the evil stuff.

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