The Fountain of Arethusa

The Fountain of Arethusa

5.8

Jan 01 1936

0h 6m

Music, Fantasy

“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.

Sabine Earl

Sabine Earl

Aréthuse, the nymph

Michel Gevel

Michel Gevel

Alphée, the hunter

Tasso Janopoulo

Tasso Janopoulo

Pianist

Jacques Thibaud

Jacques Thibaud

Violonist