Fetes - Nocturnes Claude Achille Debussy / Arr. Tomohiro Tatebe

Nocturnes, L. 91, CD. 98 (also known as Trois Nocturnes or Three Nocturnes) is an impressionist orchestral composition in three movements by the French composer Claude Debussy, who wrote it between 1892 and 1899. It is based on poems from Poèmes anciens et romanesques (Henri de Régnier, 1890).

Debussy writes: "[The second movement,] Fêtes, gives the vibrating, dancing rhythm of the atmosphere with sudden flashes of light. There is also the episode of the procession (a dazzling fantastic vision), which passes through the festive scene and becomes merged in it. But the background remains resistantly the same: the festival with its blending of music and luminous dust participating in the cosmic rhythm. "

Debussy went on to explain to Poujaud that "Festivals" had been inspired by a recollection of merry-making in the Bois de Boulogne, with noisy crowds watching the drum and bugle corps of the Garde Nationale pass in parade.

Besetzungsliste / Instrumentation:

Flute 1
Flute 2
Flute 3
Piccolo (doubling Flute 4)
Oboe 1
Oboe 2
English Horn
Bassoon 1
Bassoon 2
Eb Clarinet
Bb Solo Clarinet 1
Bb Solo Clarinet 2
Bb Clarinet 1
Bb Clarinet 2 (div.)
Eb Alto Clarinet
Bb Bass Clarinet 1
Contrabass Clarinet (doubling Bass Clarinet 2)
Bb Soprano Saxophone
Eb Alto Saxophone 1
Eb Alto Saxophone 2
Bb Tenor Saxophone
Eb Baritone Saxophone

Bb Cornet 1 (doubling Bb Flugel Horn)
Bb Cornet 2 (doubling Bb Flugel Horn)
Bb Trumpet 1
Bb Trumpet 2
Bb Trumpet 3
F Horn 1/2
F Horn 3/4
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Trombone 3
Bass Trombone
Euphonium (div.)
Tuba (div.)
String Bass (div.)

Harp

Timpani
[Percussion] Tambour Militaire, Crash Cymbals, Marimba