Transcendent and voluptuous, Claude Debussy’s Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un faune is imbued with a gentle luster that lights the music from within. Olivier Messiaen’s Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine intermingles birdsong with spiritual mysticism, while Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Chôros No. 10 evokes a Brazilian rainforest. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Michael Tilson Thomas for Debussy’s Fantaisie—a piano concerto in all but name—inspired by the sounds of Javanese gamelan.
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Claude Debussy
Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un faune
Olivier Messiaen
Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine
Claude Debussy
Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Chôros No. 10
Performers
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Piano
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony