French impressionist composers had an odd obsession with Edgar Allan Poe. Years after the author’s death in 1849, seminal composers like Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Andre Caplet remained fixated ...
André Caplet (1878-1925) is remembered principally through his connection to Claude Debussy, whose music he championed as an orchestrator and conductor, but his own finely crafted compositions, few ...
As Habakuk Traber observes in his perceptive notes, the late 19th and early 20th centuries were something of a golden age for French chamber music with wind – these three pieces emerging from ...
Nicky Spence's impassioned performance of Andre Caplet's 1917 song-cycle, Les Prieres inevitably takes on new resonances, after an 86-year-old French priest was slaughtered in his church. The Scottish ...