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Debussy: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 / Alessandra Ammara
Piano Classics

Debussy: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 / Alessandra Ammara

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Details

Composer
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE
Artist
Alessandra Ammara
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Sep 18, 2020
Catalog #
PCL10210
UPC
5029365102100

About

In 2016 Alessandra Ammara won high praise for an album of Mendelssohn duets with her husband Roberto Prosseda. The following year her Piano Classics debut of Debussy inspired no less glowing reviews. The sequel elegantly completes her recordings of the Préludes and Images with their second volumes, coupled with the more innocent pleasures of the Suite Bergamasque. Thus the album spans Debussy’s first and penultimate published piano cycles, for while the Suite appeared in print only in 1905, it was composed back in 1890. In their titles, three of the four movements – a Prelude, Minuet and Passepied – invoke the formal elegance of a Baroque dance suite, but the elusive character and freedom of the music owes more to the poetry of Verlaine, who used the archaic ‘bergamasque’ term in his poem Clair de lune, which as the suite’s third movement became Debussy’s single greatest hit. In both the Images and Préludes, Debussy invested their second volumes with darker, gloomier tone-colors and higher contrasts with wild outbursts and even manic humor. The portraits of individual characters and landscapes are more sharply drawn, more charged with private intensity. They make accordingly greater demands upon the interpreter, nowhere more so than in the dark, wild magic of the ‘Feux d’artifice’ – Fireworks – which close out the Préludes. The three Images in Book 2 are linked by their association with the Debussy’s friend Louis Laloy, and by extension with their mutual fascination with China and the alien world of East-Asian culture. The bells in ‘Cloches à travers les feuilles’ ring from the church in Laloy’s home-town; the title of ‘Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut’ was proposed by Laloy himself, and the goldfish – ‘Poissons d’or’ of the triptych’s final panel – swim and shimmer through much Chinese lacquer artwork.

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Cloches à travers les feuilles 04:25
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Cloches à travers les feuilles
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  2. 2 No. 2. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut 05:21
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  3. 3 No. 3. Poissons d'or 04:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Poissons d'or
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  4. 4 No. 1. Brouillards 03:05
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1. Brouillards
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  5. 5 No. 2. Feuilles mortes 02:50
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Feuilles mortes
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  6. 6 No. 3. La Puerta del Vino 03:41
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 3. La Puerta del Vino
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  7. 7 No. 4. Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses 03:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 4. Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  8. 8 No. 5. Bruyères 02:37
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 5. Bruyères
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  9. 9 No. 6. Général Lavine - eccentric 02:36
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 6. Général Lavine - eccentric
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  10. 10 No. 7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune 04:12
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  11. 11 No. 8. Ondine 04:07
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 8. Ondine
    Duration
    04:07
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  12. 12 No. 9. Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M. 02:39
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 9. Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  13. 13 No. 10. Canope 03:11
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 10. Canope
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  14. 14 No. 11. Les tierces alternées 02:46
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 11. Les tierces alternées
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  15. 15 No. 12. Feux d'artifice 04:44
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 12. Feux d'artifice
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  16. 16 I. Prélude 04:23
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Prélude
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  17. 17 II. Menuet 04:51
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Menuet
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  18. 18 III. Clair de lune 05:01
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Clair de lune
    Duration
    05:01
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara
  19. 19 IV. Passepied 03:26
    Track
    19
    Title
    IV. Passepied
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Alessandra Ammara