No music better invokes smudged and slightly blurry landscapes of pastel flowers shimmering in the rain, smoky Parisian cafés, beautiful women and moonlit mystery than that of Claude Debussy. To say ...
He created a new world of ravishing instrumental colour and constantly shifting sensations and images. He brought new breath to the art of music, said Boulez. Did modern music start with Debussy? It ...
Claude Debussy’s piano music written in the last few years of his life interspersed with works by ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet Claude Debussy completed his final orchestral work, ...
It is 100 years since the death of Claude Debussy in 1918. It may have seemed at the time that the inimitably French, impressionist style he established would prove to be of less importance than the ...
Pascal Rogé first recorded Debussy in the 1970s for Decca. The Onyx recordings collected here were made between 2004 and 2011 and find the older Rogé in more overtly thoughtful mode than his younger ...
After recent award-winning discs of Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven and Brahms, the great Brazilian virtuoso Freire offers a further benchmark with this ravishingly recorded selection of favourite Debussy ...
Esther Birringer’s instincts for colour and nuance work well in Debussy’s music. Her approach to rhythm sometimes proves problematic. In ‘Reflets dans l’eau’ from the first book of Images, for example ...
Only Hershey Felder can get away with putting his name before Claude Debussy’s. Take his latest solo bio-drama at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, “Hershey Felder: A Paris Love ...
With the sesquicentennial of Claude Debussy's birth coming up fast on Aug. 22, you'd think there would be a small blizzard of new Debussy releases. This year, not so much; maybe it's a sign of the ...