Debussy: Hommage

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Label
IBS Classical
Release Date
August 24, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ALBENIZ DEBUSSY DE FALLA
    • PERFORMER
      Azumi Nishizawa
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 24, 2018
    • UPC
      8436556422478
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      IBS132018
    • LABEL
      IBS Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. L'isle joyeuse

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    2. Children's Corner: VI. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    3. Préludes, Book 1: No. 10. La cathédrale engloutie

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    4. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (arr. for piano)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    5. Préludes, Book 2: No. 3. La puerta del vino

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    6. Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    7. Estampes: No. 2. La soirée dans Grenade (Evening in Granada)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    8. Iberia, Book 3: I. El Albaicín

      Composer: Isaac Albéniz

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    9. Suite española No. 1, Op. 47: I. Granada (Serenata)

      Composer: Isaac Albéniz

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    10. Cancion y danza No. 6

      Composer: Federico Mompou

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    11. 12 Danzas españolas (Spanish Dances), Op. 37, DLR I:2: No. 5. Andaluza

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    12. Goyescas, Book 1: No. 4. Quejas, ó La maja y el ruiseñor

      Composer: Enrique Granados

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    13. La vida breve: Danse espagnole No. 1 (version for piano)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa

    14. Homenaje, "Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy" (version for piano)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Azumi Nishizawa


The present release is a fascinating journey through the music that unites Debussy with Spanish composers. Places are sounds- and this music is Granada. The city was a recurring source of inspiration for Debussy, and yet the composer never visited it; his knowledge of it was gained only indirectly through literary accounts, images, and musical sources heard in Paris. All of these materials served to unleash his imagination in regard to its sound, which according to Falla represented ‘the truth without authenticity, as not a single note is borrowed from Spanish folklore and yet, even in its smallest details, it wonderfully expresses Spain’. A common element links all the composers in the present program: the city of Paris. From the end of the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, the French capital was a fundamental goal for many Spanish composers, who at some point in their lives went there for study or work purposes. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Azumi Nishizawa is considered one of the finest Japanese pianists of her generation. She studied with Michiko Okamoto and Ikuyo Kamiya at the Toho Gakuen Conservatory of Music in Tokyo, and was subsequently selected as an outstanding pupil by the famous French pianist and instructor Dominique Merlet at the Geneva Conservatory where she won first prize for virtuosity.