(La) Boîte à joujoux Jun Märkl, Conductor Lyon National Orchestra Claude Debussy, Composer (6) Épigraphes antiques Claude Debussy, Composer Jun Märkl, Conductor Lyon National Orchestra (3) Estampes, ...
Short in length but limitless in imagination, all 24 of Debussy’s magical Préludes for piano are performed by one of their supreme living interpreters, Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Claude Debussy opened up a ...
“I love pictures almost as much as music,” Claude Debussy remarked to Edgard Varèse in 1911. Seascapes, Spanish fiestas, watery reflections and mists can all be found in his music. In the first of ...
The wines of Château Cos d’Estournel, considered a Second Growth in the 1855 Bordeaux classification, are breathtaking. But what’s truly majestic is Pagodes de Cos, the chateau’s second wine, which ...
Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...
Claude Debussy, born on August 22, 1862, is one of France’s greatest composer. For many, he is the face of the impressionist movement, even though he himself rejected the term. Debussy was not born ...
Debussy: A Painter in Sound. By Stephen Walsh. Faber and Faber; 368 pages; £20. To be published in America by Knopf in October; $28.95. CLAUDE DEBUSSY was a rarity: an avant-garde composer who was ...
Also reviewed: Debussy recordings by Daniel Barenboim and Stephen Hough It has taken Maurizio Pollini almost 20 years to complete his survey of Debussy’s Préludes – his recording of the first book ...