Debussy: Preludes & Children's Corner / Jumppanen

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Label
Ondine
Release Date
January 12, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DEBUSSY, CLAUDE
    • PERFORMER
      Paavali Jumppanen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 12, 2018
    • UPC
      761195130421
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ODE 1304-2D
    • LABEL
      Ondine
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Danseuses de Delphes

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    2. No. 2. Voiles

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    3. No. 3. Le vent dans la plaine

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    4. No. 4. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    5. No. 5. Les collines d'Anacapri

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    6. No. 6. Des pas sur la neige

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    7. No. 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    8. No. 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    9. No. 9. La sérénade interrompue

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    10. No. 10. La cathédrale engloutie

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    11. No. 11. La danse de Puck

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    12. No. 12. Minstrels

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    13. No. 1. Brouillards

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    14. No. 2. Feuilles mortes

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    15. No. 3. La puerta del vino

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    16. No. 4. Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    17. No. 5. Bruyères

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    18. No. 6. Général Lavine - eccentric

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    19. No. 7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    20. No. 8. Ondine

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    21. No. 9. Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    22. No. 10. Canope

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    23. No. 11. Les tierces alternées

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    24. No. 12. Feux d'artifice

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    25. I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    26. II. Jimbo's Lullaby

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    27. III. Serenade for a Doll

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    28. IV. The Snow is Dancing

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    29. V. The Little Shepherd

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen

    30. VI. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paavali Jumppanen


After the five-volume complete recording of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Paavali Jumppanen’s new recording on Ondine turns attention to Claude Debussy’s (1862–1918) piano works. This release includes complete Préludes together with the Children’s Corner. Debussy’s oeuvre has been explored both by the amateur pianist and the most legendary virtuosos of the keyboard. Throughout his career Debussy sought new ways to express his musical vistas. He began numerous large compositional projects and between these big ventures wrote miniatures such as songs and piano pieces. Debussy’s 24 piano preludes were published in two sets in 1910 and 1913. These miniatures are varied in character and style, and include, among others, references to literature, poetry, nature, the Mediterranean landscape and the events in Paris during Debussy’s lifetime. The six pieces forming the cycle Children’s Corner (1908) evoke adult recollections of childhood. The set bears a dedication to Debussy’s daughter Chouchou and includes some of Debussy’s most well-known piano pieces, including The Snow is Dancing and Golliwogg’s cake walk. A dedicated performer of French music, Paavali Jumppanen often performs the large cycles of Debussy’s late period, namely the Préludes and the Études.

REVIEW:

This fascinating new set, superbly recorded, presents the bona fides of the Finnish pianist Paavali Jumppanen as a musician of keen intelligence and almost preternatural sensitivity. One of the most striking aspects of his approach to this thricefamiliar repertory is a predilection for extremely spacious, unrushed tempos. Yet as soon as you notice this, it becomes apparent that his choice of tempo is perfectly conceived for what he has to say in the music, which is a great deal indeed. Although a first listener response to any given piece may be to wonder at the particular interpretative choices, after only a few bars it becomes difficult to imagine how it could be played any other way.

– Gramophone