Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Cello Sonata, Violin Sonata, Piano Trio

Featuring

Jiřina Dvořáková
Milan Polák
Pavel Hůla
Slávka Pěchočová
Václav Kunt
Václav Roubal

Jaromír Klepáč
Michal Kaňka
Lucie Sedláková Hůlová
Martin Sedlák
Pražák Quartet
Kinsky Trio Prague
Claude Debussy

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Instruments

Violinist Lucie Sedláková Hůlová, a member of the Kinsky Trio Prague, performs on an 18th-century Italian violin.

Composition History

Debussy's only Piano Trio, written in 1879, was rediscovered only recently, with the first movement manuscript acquired in the mid-1970s and the other three movements coming to light in 1982.

Composition History

The chamber arrangement of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune was made by Benno Sachs, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, and premiered in October 1920, shortly after Debussy's death.

Composition History

Claude Debussy planned to create a series of six chamber pieces during World War I, but only completed three before his death.

Performer Biography

The Kinsky Trio Prague, founded in 1998, was granted permission in 2004 to bear the name 'KINSKY' by the aristocratic Czech family from Kostelec nad Orlicí.