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The Preludes Liszt
Debussy's L'apres midi d'un faune is a musical interpretation of a poem by the French poet, Stephane Mallarme. It has been said that the poem is so illusive in meaning, so subtle in its refinements of language, that it is practically untranslatable into another tongue. Debussy's is perhaps the only medium suited to an exposition of the poem. The picture is of a faun who, waking at dawn in the forest, tries to recall what happened to him before he fell asleep. His musings are confused with visions of nymphs who spent the afternoon with him, and the possibility that the whole thing has been a dream coloured with the music of his own flute.

Regional Programme London

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Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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