While the topic of Wagner and France has been frequently explored, the impact of his music on Debussy and fellow French contemporaries is less well-known.

This unique lecture-recital programme explores Wagnérisme (Wagnerism) which existed in France at the end of the 19th century, and presents rarely performed, nevertheless exciting arrangements of Wagner’s music, transcribed for two pianos by Debussy, Dukas and Alfred Pringsheim (the father-in-law of the great writer Thomas Mann).