Duncan Ward; Valentine Michaud; Philzuid - Bela Bartok: Dance Suite - Anders Hillborg: Peacock Tales - Claude Debussy: La mer

The fifth album of Philzuid features works by Bela Bartok, Anders Hillborg and Claude Debussy. Chief conductor Duncan Ward takes you on a journey filled with innovative sounds and with folk music. Bartok developed his own tonal language through elements taken from folk music whilst Anders Hillborg's surprising tonal language shows the influence of Scandinavian folk music and of Klezmer. Claude Debussy, however, turned Romantic tonality on its head with harmonies and melodies that owed part of their development to Javanese gamelan music.