MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - FRANCE: Cathedrals and Megaliths, Calvaries and Tapestries from Brittany to the Loire
France
Chartres Cathedral / Canal and Aqueduct, Briare / Loire
Brittany: Enclos paroissiaux, Pleyben and Plougonven / La Grande Briere / Church and Cemetery, Locronan / Les Alignements, Carnac
Burgundy: Basilica, Vezelay
Franche-Comte: Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
Pays de la Loire: Musee Jean Lurcat, Angers / Caverne sculptee, Deneze Doue
Franche-Comte: Les Salines, Salins-les-Bains / Polyptych by Roger van der Weyden, Hotel-Dieu, Beaune / Burgundy: Notre Dame, Dijon
Normandy: Hambye and Jumieges Abbeys
Normandy: Ship Church and Musee Ernest Kosmowski, Honfleur / Seascape and Sunset, Etretat
Normandy: Landscape
Normandy: Iles de Chausey
Date of Production: 2010-05-24
Playing Time: 00:56:00
Catalogue Number: 2.110249 UPC: 747313524952
UPC: 747313524952
The Places
Starting from the great Cathedral of Chartres, our tour takes us to Brittany and Normandy in northern France and to Franche Comte and Burgundy. Many of the scenes chosen match closely the music of Faure, particularly his Requiem, with a wide range of images from the cavalries of Brittany, the startling architecture of Le Corbusier in his church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, The Last Judgment by Rogier van der Weyden in Beaune, and the tapestries of Jean Lurcat at Angers.
The Music
The music chosen for this tour of France is by Gabriel Faure. It includes his Requiem, the evocative Pavane, his Sicilienne, probably originally intended as part of incidental music for Moliere's Le bourgeois gentilhomme, and the Berceuse.
