Composer: Claude Debussy
Performer: Alexander Melnikov, Olga Pashchenko
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Size: 977 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. I. Brouillards. Modéré
02. II. Feuilles mortes. Lent et mélancolique
03. III. La Puerta del vino. Mouvement de “Habanera”
04. IV. Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses. Rapide et léger
05. V. Bruyères. Calme
06. VI. General Lavine”- excentric. Dans le style et le mouvement d’un Cake-Walk
07. VII. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune. Lent
08. VIII. Ondine. Scherzando
09. IX. Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. Grave
10. X. Canope. Très calme et doucement triste
11. XI. Les tierces alternées. Modérément animé
12. XII. Feux d’artifice. Modérément animé
La Mer, L. 109
13. I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer (Transcribed for four-hand piano)
14. II. Jeux de vagues (Transcribed for four-hand piano)
15. III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Transcribed for four-hand piano)
A century after his death – 25 March 1918 – many harmonia mundi artists are eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great ‘colourist’ and father of modern music.
Alexander Melnikov is among those pianists increasingly committed to playing the works of the past on the instruments on which they came into being (or could have done so) and so it is on a ‘period’ piano (an Érard piano) that he breathes new life into Book II of the Préludes but also, with the help of Olga Pashchenko, the extraordinary transcription of La Mer by the composer himself.