Composer: Claude Debussy
Performer: Jacopo Salvatori
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: OnClassical
Release: 2020
Size: 1.26 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Preludes, Book 1, L. 117
01. No. 1, Danseuses de Delphes
02. No. 2, Voiles
03. No. 3, Le vent dans la plaine
04. No. 4, Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
05. No. 5, Les collines d’Anacapri
06. No. 6, Des pas sur la neige
07. No. 7, Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest
08. No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin
09. No. 9, La sérénade interrompue
10. No. 10, La cathédrale engloutie
11. No. 11, La danse de Puck
12. No. 12, Minstrels
Préludes, Book 2, L. 123
13. No. 1, Brouillards
14. No. 2, Feuilles mortes
15. No. 3, La puerta del Vino
16. No. 4, Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses
17. No. 5, Bruyères
18. No. 6, General Lavine – Eccentric
19. No. 7, La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
20. No. 8, Ondine
21. No. 9, Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.
22. No. 10, Canope
23. No. 11, Les tierces alternées
24. No. 12, Feux d’artifice
jacopo-salvatori-debussy-piano-works-vol4.rar – 271.8 MB
Written between 1909 and 1913, Préludes are probably Claude Debussy’s most important work for piano. It consists in a series of 24 short pieces, equally subdivided into two books.
Unlike Chopin’s, Bach’s and many other composer’s homonymous series, these pieces aren’t sorted by key signature. Debussy gave a title to all of the 24 preludes and decided to place them at the end of each piece. This choice is mainly addressed to the performer to encourage him to find his own interpretation but it also points out that it’s the music here that will suggest the titles and not vice versa. Being certainly the peak of maturity in Debussy’s musical experience, these pieces also carry the youthful energy of the author’s early pieces. This combination of both aspects of Debussy’s personal style gives this music an unique feature: here, music and dramaturgy express and support each other mutually, letting each idea unfold and develop achieving a brilliant balance between its strong inspiration sources and Debussy’s consumate mastery of composing. Such quality is rarely to find in the repertoire of concert music, making Préludes a milestone for musicians of all sorts.