Claude Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and string orchestra.
Isabelle Moretti: harp
Quatuor Ebène (France)
Festival International de Musique de Wissembourg
Eglise Saint-Jean, Sept. 7th 2010
Composed in April/May of 1904, commissioned by Pleyel for the chromatic harp. Adapted for the the pedal harp by Henriette Renié.
Arrangement for string quartet by Fabrice Pierre / Ebene Quartet

[@bradlunn431]

One of the best compositions by Debussy. Great harpest. Nicely done.

[@harpsussex]

Just sublime - wonderful musicianship and I empathise with those pedal movements! 👌

[@docbailey3265]

A wonderfully restrained cellist.

[@couch63]

Fantastic ! Thank you. My favorite piece of Debussy music.

[@johnhancock7572]

It's the [amazing] Quatore Ebene, with this amazing harpist

[@LibbiDuncan23]

So beautiful and inspiring.

[@MrNerpp]

Thank you for this moment

[@AvalonMorley]

All the times I've heard this music (never having heard/seen it played live), it never occurred to me that this beautiful sound was created with only five instrumentalists. So beautiful!

[@arielbarnes-cellist3341]

It is often played with a full ensemble of strings as well :)

[@pleasedyes]

@@arielbarnes-cellist3341 it’s cool to me how most of the time it’s a full ensemble despite originally being meant to be played with a quartet

[@gustavomariaaragon1278]

Plein de magie Isabelle Moretti.

[@laharpedemelodie83]

magico, elegante, meraviglioso, raffinato....sono commossa! thank you for sharing!

[@jewettjc]

Thank you for sharing this lovely music.

[@robertmilby6433]

Like Faure, Debussy's music works in springtime. Especially this sublime piece!

[@kajgod]

+Robert Milby
listening in winter. works just fine ;-)

[@robertmilby6433]

Of course! It's fascinating about Classical music, how its nobility can add meaning to life, and define the seasons and our memories of this short time we have on Earth. It is Winter here in New York State's Hudson, Valley, USA. I am listening to Mendelssohn right now. I tend to favour Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and then, the Romantics in Winter.

[@goddard976]

Magnifique

[@joseantoniodomene]

¡Brava!

[@paulamrod537]

I feel this music fits as well with ice´cycles and snow crystals, Autumn's psychedelic foliage display and Summer's mystery of warmth with the loss of light and of course with Spring's bursting blossoms. Nonetheless the wonder of Debussy is a visionary concept of new harmony which was a solution like Wagner for freely harmonic invention. Of course Ravel went a bit further as well as Debussy with "Le Jeux" and Scriabin, Bartok, Messiaen, Symanovski, Roslavec, Sorajbi as well as others and eventually modern jazz and a new form of logical movement of music in the horizontal with a gorgeous vertical. All based on the same progression of Johann Sebastian Bach's movement of tritones.

[@Fuliginosus]

Music starts at 0:36

[@douglasmatley]

Beautiful harp, I am too poor to buy a Salvi harp, made for male harpists, which I am one. Thank you

[@faniamuthia]

I think she's playing with a Camac harp, and her husband (I think), Jakez Francois, plays the harp as well :)

[@maeless]

wow

[@13cassis]

🎼❤️❤️❤️

[@peterking8740]

Does anyone know who the reduction of this to string quartet and harp is by?

[@Harpforyourlife]

in petrucci

[@docbailey3265]

Fabrice Pierre.