Longing

Here is Angela Hewitt with the five-minute Nocturne No. 19 by Frédéric Chopin.

Thank you.

so so . . . so so Thank you.

Let's pray.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That was Angela Hewitt playing the Nocturne No. 19 by Frédéric Chopin.

Next up is the 1910 orchestral version of Maurice Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, Pavane pour une Infante Défante, which describes a slow dance by a princess during Spain's golden age of the 1500s.

I don't know if Ravel intended that the double meaning of his title be echoed in the music.

Is it simply a dance that would have been performed by a princess in an earlier time? Or is it music in tribute upon the death of a princess? I think it works both ways.

Here is the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

It's about seven minutes long.

Maurice Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess.

Thank you.

¶¶ ¶. . . . ¶¶ . . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . . . . . ¦ ¦ ¶¶ That was the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performing Maurice Ravel's Pavan for a Dead Princess.

All right, staying in France, here is an early work by Gabriel Fauret from 1877, Après un rêve, After a Dream.

It was originally written as a song for baritone and piano, but later it was arranged by the cellist Pablo Casals.

for his instrument and piano, and that is the version I'm going to play.

Eric Lesage and François Salke play the piano and the cello for Ray's Two Minute After a Dream.

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That was Eric Lesage and François Salquet playing the piano and the cello with Gabriel Fauré's After a Dream.