Debussy: Children's Corner No.2 "Jimbo's Lullaby" - symphonic wind

Children's Corner, L. 113, is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was first performed by Harold Bauer in Paris on 18 December that year.

 In 1911, an orchestration by André Caplet was premiered and subsequently published.

This is the 2nd piece in Debussy's Children's Corner.- "Jimbo's Lullaby.

 This work describes an elephant, Jumbo, who came from the French Sudan and lived briefly in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris around the time of Debussy's birth. Debussy quotes the French lullaby "Do, do, l'enfant do," several times in the course of the piece.

It is a beautiful lullaby with some dark moments and whole-tone passages in the middle.

Called Jumbo's Lullaby on Caplet's Orchestration.

Arranged double wind quintet/bass.

This piece features the double bass