Composer: Claude Achille Debussy
Performer: Ilia Kim
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dynamic
Catalogue: CDS7975
Release: 2023
Size: 220 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Suite Bergamasque
01. Prélude
02. Menuet
03. Claire de lune
04. Passepied
05. Nocturne
Images oubliées for piano
06. 1. Lent (mélancolique et doux)
07. 2. Souvenir du Louvre
08. 3. Quelques aspects de «nous n’irons plus au bois»
09. Rêverie
Pour le piano
10. 1. Prélude
11. 2. Sarabande
12. 3. Toccata
13. Danse bohemienne
One of the threads that runs through Debussy’s music is an expressive range that embraces the tragic to the grotesque. This is especially evident in his early piano music. The Suite bergamasque is the masterpiece of his pre-Raphaelite period, a compound of archaism, rich lyricism and decadence. Pour le piano also evokes a medieval atmosphere, while – in its Toccata finale – offering perpetual motion virtuosity. There is an oriental ethos in the Nocturne, the Rêverie is an alluring portrait, and Images oubliées – which was unpublished as a set until as late as 1977 – contains both rich portraiture and burlesque.