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Sounds Like with Sean Chen - The Water is Never the Same

A painting from Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral series, and composer Maurice Ravel
A painting from Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral series, and composer Maurice Ravel

From rippling water to beams of light, composers like Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy figured out how to translate the visual into something you can hear.

Music referenced in this episode:

Images I, CD 105: I. Reflets dans l'eau
by Claude Debussy

Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine
by Maurice Ravel

La mer
by Claude Debussy

Sean Chen creates custom musical mashups for Classical KC's "Sounds Like with Sean Chen."
Sam Wisman is Production Director for 91.9 Classical KC and a backup announcer for KCUR 89.3