CLAUDE DEBUSSY:
Petite Suite:
En bateau
Cortege
Menuet
Ballet
Six Epigraphes Antiques:
Pour invoquer Pan, Dieu du Vent d’Ete
Pour un Tombeau sans Nom
Pour que la Nuit Soit Propice
Pour la Danseuse aux Crotales
Pour l’Egyptienne
Pour Remercier la Pluie au Matin

MAURICE RAVEL:
Ma mere l’oye:
Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
Petit Poucet
Laideronnette, Imperatrice des Pagodes
Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bete
Le jardin feerique

GABRIEL FAURE:
Dolly:
Berceuse
Mi-a-ou
Le Jardin de Dolly
Kitty-Valse
Tendresse
Le Pas Espagnole

Western Europe enjoyed a climate of relatively armed peace in which art could flourish practically carefree for more than four decades, from 1870 until the Great War. A period of social tranquillity then ensued, primarily in France and Belgium, which would inevitably leave its mark on various art forms. That period in French art, affecting the visual arts and music in particular, became known as Impressionism, although Debussy himself disliked the term. It was only after the war that people began to refer with some nostalgia to that beautiful, unfortunately bygone era as the Belle époque.