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Great Masters of French Music
November 17, 2007

Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques Suite, op. 112 | Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, op. 33 | Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte | Debussy: Petite Suite


Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Masques et Bergamasques Suite, op. 112

Nectoux, Jean-Michel. “Fauré, Gabriel (Urbain).” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 14

November 2007. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

———. Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life. Translated by Roger Nichols. New York: Cambridge University Press,

1991.

Orledge, Robert. “Fauré: Suite ‘Masques et Bergamasques’ opus 112.” Booklet. Orch. Academy of St.

Martin-in-the-Fields. Cond. Neville Marriner. CD. Argo, 1982.

Suckling, Norman. Fauré. London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1951.

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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Cello Concerto, op. 33

Anonymous. Liner Notes. “Camille Saint-Saëns: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33.”

Orch. Lamoureux. Cond. Jean Martinon. LP. Deutsche Grammophon, n.d.

L. R. Liner Notes. “Saint-Saëns: Concerto No. 1 in A Minor (Op. 33).” Vienna State Opera Orch. Cond. Jonathan

Sternberg. LP. Oceanic Records, 1951.

Cooper, Martin. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). In The Concerto, edited by Ralph Hill, 206-18. 1952. Reprint,

Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1978.

Dann-Beardsley, Cynthia. “Elgar & Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos.” Booklet. Calgary Philharmonic Orch. Cond.

Mario Bernardi. CD. CBC Records, 1995.

Ferguson, Donald Nivison. Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Guide for Listeners. Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press, 1954.

Macdonald, Hugh. “Saint-Saëns & Lalo: Cello Concertos.” Booklet. Chicago Symphony Orch. Cond. James Levine.

CD. Deutsche Grammophon, 1989.

Ratner, Sabina Teller, James Harding, and Daniel Fallon. “Saint-Saëns, (Charles) Camille.” Grove Music Online ed.

L. Macy. 9 November 2007. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

Rees, Brian. Camille Saint-Saëns: A Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1999.

Wright, David. “Schumann, Lalo & Saint Saëns.” Booklet. London Symphony Orch. Cond. Antal Dorati. CD.

Mercury, 1991.

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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavane pour une Infante Défunte

Gillespie, John. Five Centuries of Keyboard Music: An Historical Survey of Music for Harpsichord and Piano.

California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1965.

Goss, Madeleine. Bolero: The Life of Maurice Ravel. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1940.

Kelly, Barbara. “Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 11 November

2007. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

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Claude Debussy (1875-1937)
Petite Suite

Aprahamia, Felix. Liner Notes. “Satie: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire; Debussy: Petite Suite.” L’Orch. de la Suisse

Romande. Cond. Sergiu Comissiona. LP. Decca, 1972.

Dietschy, Marcel. A Portrait of Claude Debussy. Edited and translated by William Ashbrook and Margaret Cobb.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Gillespie, John. Five Centuries of Keyboard Music: An Historical Survey of Music for Harpsichord and Piano.

California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1965.

Griffiths, Paul. “Verlaine, Paul.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 13 November 2007.

<http://www.grovemusic.com>

Harding, James. “Debussy: Orchestral Notes.” Booklet. L’Orch. de la Suisse Romande. Cond. Ernest Ansermet. CD.

Decca, 2002.

Kelly, Barbara L. “Büsser [Busser], (Paul-) Henri.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 11 November 2007.

<http://www.grovemusic.com>

Lesure, François, and Roy Howat. “Debussy, (Achille-) Claude.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 13 November

2007. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

Nichols, Robert S., Nigel Simeone, and Jeremy Drake. “Durand.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 13 November

2007. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

Nichols, Roger. “Petite Suite.” Booklet. Orch. The Philharmonia. Cond. Geoffrey Simon. CD. Cala Records, 1990.

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