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Concert
May 2025
31 May 2025, 7.30 pm
Old Baptist Chapel, Cratfield Rd, Fressingfield
Clare Hammond piano
Mel Bonis 'Desdémona', 'Phoebe' and ‘Mélisande' from Femmes de légende
Claude Debussy 'Les Collines d'Anacapri', 'La Puerta del Vino', 'Général Lavine', 'Feux d'artifice'
from Préludes
Germaine Tailleferre Partita
Maurice Ravel Sonatine
INTERVAL
Claude Debussy Images, Book 1
Gabriel Fauré Nocturnes No. 12 in E minor and No. 8 in D flat major
Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
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About the music
Clare Hammond has devised a programme of works by French composers all written (with one exception – the piece by Taillferre) between 1898 and 1919, the Belle Epoque era. Beyond being encompassed by those 20 years or so, the works share a stylistic approach, often likened to the approach of the French Impressionist painters, active around the same time, even if Debussy himself was sceptical of the comparison.
Listen to excerpts from two of the pieces:
Fauré - Nocturne No.12 - Clare Hammond
00:00 / 02:12
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