Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2

• Druk: 2013
• Wykonawca: Collard Catherine
• Producent: Newton Classics
• Typ oprawy: plastikowa

In 1909, when Claude Debussy began work on his Préludes for piano, he could look back on a number of recent successes, not least the British premiere of his opera Pelléas et Mélisande. He published these 24 pieces, in two books of 12 each, in 1910 and 1913; they thus date from the watershed between the composer’s impressionistic middle period and the striking neo-Classicism of his later years. The Préludes are immensely varied in character, from the tender ‘Fille aux cheveux de lin’ to the impassioned, brilliant ‘Feux d’artifice’. Moreover, Debussy creates a quite new aesthetic by dispensing with motivic and thematic development. Instead, individual sections and melodic fragments seem merely juxtaposed or else pass seamlessly one into another.

Time and again a synaesthesis of sense and impression is found in Debussy’s works; here, the very title of ‘Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir’ combines the senses of hearing and smell. The music’s associative nature is clear from a contemporary description of ‘Feux d’artifice’: ‘Motionless clouds of Bengal lights, from which a few sparks break

free like rockets, crackling, before slowly descending like stars, whirring suns, dazzling, multicoloured rays of light, all that shimmers and gleams in the night – the whole magic of light lies in this music.’

• Kategorie:
  1. Filmy i muzyka
• Język wydania: angielski
• EAN: 8718247712083
• Wymiary: 14.0x12.0cm
• Waga: 0.11kg
• Czas trwania: 1:25:22
• Nośniki:

  • #1: Book 2 (CD Audio)
    • 1. ‘Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses’ (03:22)
    • 2. Hommage a S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C (02:27)
    • 3. Feux d’artifice (04:37)
    • 4. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (05:52)
    • 5. Brouillards (02:45)
    • 6. La puerta del vino (03:08)
    • 7. Feuilles mortes (03:17)
    • 8. Canope (03:27)
    • 9. Les tierces alternées (02:57)
    • 10. Bruyeres (03:05)
    • 11. Ondine (03:56)
    • 12. General Lavine – eccentric (02:28)
  • #2: Book 1 (CD Audio)
    • 1. La fille aux cheveux de lin (02:44)
    • 2. Des pas sur la neige (03:46)
    • 3. Le vent dans la plaine (02:21)
    • 4. Minstrels (02:06)
    • 5. Voiles (04:44)
    • 6. Danseuses de Delphe (03:41)
    • 7. ‘Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir’ (04:29)
    • 8. Le collines d’Anacapri (03:13)
    • 9. La danse de Puck (02:33)
    • 10. La cathédrale engloutie (06:49)
    • 11. Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest (03:37)
    • 12. La sérénade interrompue (02:22)