Bruyeres

Bruyeres is a town in northeast France famous for a nunnery and some WWII battles.  By all accounts it is "off the beaten path" probably hasn't changed a heck of  a lot in the last century. Debussy, the French composer wrote a piece called Bruyeres that these two musicians transcribed - and very well.  Listen to it here.

"Transcribing" music generally means to keep it all the same except to perhaps change it to suit the players...in this case, piano to flute and harp. Good transcriptions are a difficult thing to pull off - think of it as rewriting a book into English from the original French.  You might get the literal meaning but the subtle stuff, the turn of phrase so to speak, might and often does get lost in the shuffle.

Here is the original piano piece as Debussy wrote it a century ago.  I think the flute/harp duo got it right.



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