Préludes, Book 1 & 2

Angela Brownridge

Label: Challenge Classics
Catalogusnummer: CC 72727
EAN / barcode: 0608917272727
Verschijningsdatum: 5 oktober 2017
Type: Album

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Debussy had been planning Préludes for two or three years before the first book was published in 1910. He seems to have been at work on the second book by the end of 1911 and the volume was published in 1913. Whereas Bach and Chopin used their Preludes as something of a technical exercise, composing one for each musical key, Debussy's were free-form and full of his signature expressive indulgences. Each one has a different descriptive title that gives clues about what was going through the composer's mind when he was writing them, from Shakespearean dances to underwater cathedrals. What Debussy did in the Préludes and earlier works with a similar inspiration was composing with sounds rather than notes. It is that, rather than their picturesque qualities, that changed history. Debussy did nothing less than liberate music from the domination by functional harmony which had prevailed for three centuries. Tonality becomes colour.

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Tracklist

01 Préludes, Book 2: Modéré (...Brouillards) 03:04
02 Préludes, Book 2: Lent et mélancolique (...Feuilles mortes) 03:22
03 Préludes, Book 2: Mouvt de Habanera (...La puerta del Vino) 02:55
04 Préludes, Book 2: Rapide et léger (...Les fées sont dʼexquises danseuses) 02:58
05 Préludes, Book 2: Calme (...Bruyères) 02:56
06 Préludes, Book 2: Dans le style et le Mouvement dʼun Cake-Walk (...„General Lavine‟ — eccentric) 02:55
07 Préludes, Book 2: Lent (...La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune) 05:06
08 Préludes, Book 2: Scherzando (...Ondine) 03:06
09 Préludes, Book 2: Grave (...Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.) 02:31
10 Préludes, Book 2: Très calme et doucement triste (...Canope) 04:00
11 Préludes, Book 2: Modérément animé (...Les tierces alternées) 02:44
12 Préludes, Book 2: Modérément animé (...Feux dʼartifice) 04:35
13 Images, Book 2: Cloches à travers les feuilles 05:07
14 Images, Book 2: Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut 06:46
15 Images, Book 2: Poissons dʼor 04:13