Storytime! In this new episode of «In Tune», music and literature intertwine for our ears' greatest pleasure.

Arts always find inspiration in one another. Such is the case for music and literature, as many composers set to translate poems, plays or novels into music. Let's leaf trough the pages together:

Francis Poulenc: Les Animaux modèles, III. La Cigale et la fourmi
Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, I. Ondine
Léon Minkus: Don Quixote, Act II, Scene: Puppet Theatre
Ken Wheeler: Don the Dreamer
Giuseppe Verdi: Otello, «Fuoco di gioia!»
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, N°2
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, N°3 Lied mit Chor
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Liebestod
Umm Kulthum: Al-Atlal
Tōru Takemitsu: From me flows what you call time
Led Zeppelin: Moby Dick
Henry Purcell, arr. Aleksander Dębicz: «Music for a while»
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet N° 1 «Kreutzer Sonata»