简介
To celebrate the upcoming centenary of Claude Debussy in March 2018, Maestro Daniel Barenboim presents a personal collection with works of the prolific French composer. It was during his years as principal conductor of the Orchestre de Paris from 1975 to 1989 that Barenboim began to take a closer interest in Debussy’s music. It makes logical sense that Barenboim approached Debussy’s piano works through his orchestral music given the composer’s musical language evolved through the interplay between these two different worlds. As a result, we can hear an imaginary orchestra in the tremendous subtleties of the tone colours in Estampes, for all that those orchestral sonorities are created by genuinely pianistic means.
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1. Estampes, L. 100: I. Pagodes
2. Estampes, L. 100: II. La soirée dans Grenade
3. Estampes, L. 100: III. Jardins sous la pluie
4. Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune
5. La plus que lente, L. 121
6. Élégie, L. 138
7. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: I. Danseuses de Delphes
8. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: II. Voiles
9. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: III. Le vent dans la plaine
10. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: IV. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
11. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: V. Les collines d'Anacapri
12. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: VI. Des pas sur la neige
13. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: VII. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
14. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin
15. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: IX. La sérénade interrompue
16. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: X. La cathédrale engloutie
17. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: XI. La danse de Puck
18. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: XII. Minstrels