Painting and poetry developed a more abstract style during the latter part of the 19th century, and music was quick to follow. In Colour, Sir Simon Rattle looks at the shift away from melody towards an emphasis on tone colour or "timbre".
Tracklisting: - Claude Debussy: Prélude À L'après-midi D'un Faune
- Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
- Arnold Schöenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces Op. 16
- Pierre Boulez: Notations for Piano
- Olivier Messiaen: Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
- Claude Debussy: Jeux
- Toru Takemitsu: Dream/window
- Maurice Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé
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