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Outsiders: La Monnaie
27.11.2023
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Outsiders: La Monnaie
La MonnaieOperaClassical

Rain does't have to be purple to end up in a good piece of music. The drizzly month of November made us wonder: how can music express the sound of water?

With swirling melodies and inventive instrumentation including bottles and bowls of water, classical music composers sure know how to evoke raindrops, swelling rivers and stormy seas.

Frédéric Chopin, Prelude opus 28. no.15 ('Raindrop prelude') Tan Dun, Water Cadenza Tan Dun, Water and Resurrection Camille Saint-Saens, "Aquarium" from Carnaval des Animaux Claude Debussy, La Mer Georg Frideric Handel, Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major Maurice Ravel, Jeux d’eau Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 3: 'Rheinische' Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Tsarina In A Barrel At Sea" from The Tale of Tsar Saltan