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DEBUSSY: Piano Music, Vol. 3
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Preludes, Book 2
1.
No. 1: Brouillards
3:04
2.
No. 2: Feuilles mortes
2:48
3.
No. 3: La Puerta del Vino
3:06
4.
No. 4: Les Fees sont d'exquises danseuses
3:08
5.
No. 5: Bruyeres
2:42
6.
No. 6: General Lavine - eccentric
2:28
7.
No. 7: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
4:00
8.
No. 8: Ondine
3:10
9.
No. 9: Hommage a S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.
2:18
10.
No. 10: Canope
2:34
11.
No. 11: Les tierces alternees
2:36
12.
No. 12: Feux d'artifice
4:57
13.
Berceuse heroique
3:58
14.
Page d'album, "Piece pour le Vetement du blesse"
1:11
15.
Elegie
1:54
La boite a joujoux (version for piano)
16.
Prelude: Le sommeil de la boite (The Toy-box Asleep). Tableau 1: Le magasin de jouets (The Toy Shop)
14:23
17.
Tableau 2: Le champ de bataille (The Field of Battle)
9:28
18.
Tableau 3: La bergerie a vendre (The Sheepfold for Sale) -
5:55
19.
Tableau 4: Apres fortune faite - Epilogue
3:04
Solo: Noriko Ogawa Soloist
Notes
The eagerly awaited third volume is now available here, bringing the second book of Préludes including some of Debussy's most well-loved piano pieces, such as Feux d'artifice. Less commonly heard are the three short works composed during the First World War, and all intended for different fund-raising activities: Berceuse héroïque, Pièce pour l'oeuvre du «Vêtement du blessé» and Elégie. The album ends on a much lighter note however, with the music for the children's ballet La Boîte à joujoux (The Toy Box). Composed shortly after the Preludes, the score was originally intended for orchestra, but Debussy never completed the orchestration. Instead, he left the world a wonderful piano version, full of witty allusions, in which the various toys and dolls of a child's toy box dance circles around each other.
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Reviews
"She has both the range of colour and the emotional flexibility to bring the Preludes alive... Ogawa seriously challenges Krystian Zimerman's hegemony of the Preludes amongst modern accounts."
BBC Music Magazine - February 2006
"Noriko Ogawa plays the 12 Préludes of Book 2 with exceeding beauty and refinement. Her chords are always precisely weighted and balanced, while her varying degrees of staccato or détaché have a lovely halo around them, conveyed by the clarity of the recording. This is playing with a very high degree of finish..."
International Record Review - March 2006
"A superlative performance of La boîte à joujoux that's worth the price of the disc alone... Feux d'artifice and La Puerto del Vino are outstanding examples of her virtuosity at its most superfine and characterful."
Gramophone magazine - February 2006
"Feux d’artifice … displays all the technical expertise and the brilliance that characterises all of Ogawa’s performances on this stunning CD."
MusicWeb-International.com
'Whether in the incendiary glitter of the final prelude or the wistfulness of "La Boîte à Joujoux", this is captivating playing."
The Times - 16 December 2005
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