Farandole from L’Arlésienne Composer: Georges Bizet Conductor: Huang Yi Performance: China Philharmonic Orchestra “Farandole” was composed by Georges Bizet as incidental music for the play L’Arlésienne, accompanying the villagers’ dance scene in the third act. The farandole is a traditional French folk dance that remains popular in southern France today. The piece opens with the theme of the March of the Three Kings from the drama. It then shifts from minor to major mode, as the woodwind instrum