Sonic Asymmetry

Georges Bizet: “Arlesienne Suite no.1 and no.2”

ジョルジュ・ビゼー：「アーレジアンスイート1号と2号」

TIME COMMITMENT: 37 minutes

This magical rêverie for strings is seamlessly interlocked with minuet-like intermezzos.  The second part shines with its cinderblock, huffy and anguished first movement.  Almost subversively, it remains planted in our memory.  For true aficionados, we have here both no.1 and no.2 performed by Nathalie Stutzmann, but also a short fragment (“Farandole”) from no.2, under the direction of Herbert von Karajan.

MUSIC

INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arl%C3%A9sienne_(Bizet)

A REFLECTION

In misfortune, friends increase.

You who enter, leave all despair.

Goodness, your name is man.

It is here that the wisdom of the nations remains.

Comte de Lautreamont Isidore Ducasse: “Poésies II”