"While pianist Hiroko Sasaki was looking for an instrument on which to record the Debussy Preludes, she happened upon an 1873 Pleyel concert grand. She discovered that it offers her the sonorities, dynamics and colors she thinks are essential in Debussy, who himself owned a Pleyel piano, his favorite instrument. The result is fascinating, the pianissimos seeming to come from “a piano without hammers”, as Debussy wanted it. The booklet contains notes on the music, the instrument and photos of the piano."