Cirque d'Hiver
Georgia Mann continues her journey through Debussy's Paris with a visit to the 19th-century Cirque d'Hiver for a focus on the impact of popular entertainment on artists of the day.
Georgia Mann continues her journey through Debussy's Paris with a visit to the 19th-century Cirque d'Hiver for a focus on the impact of popular entertainment on artists of the day.
Like Lautrec, Seurat and Picasso, Debussy loved the circus, and famously depicted the clown 'General Lavine' in one of his piano preludes. "The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd," he once said.
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Claude Debussy
Preludes II: General Levine - eccentric
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.- Philips.
Broadcast
- Sat 24 Mar 2018 16:50BBC Radio 3
Debussy's Paris
Radio 3 marks Debussy 100 with programmes dedicated to the composer & his sensuous music.