Debussy: 2 Arabesques / Preludes (Selections) / Pour L'Egyptienne

Featuring

Anders Miolin
Claude Debussy

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Composition History

The poetic titles for Debussy's Préludes were placed after the music in the published edition so that the performer would not be influenced by them.

Compositional Technique

Debussy experimented with new scales, primarily whole-tone scales, which led to harmonies and chords previously unheard in Western Europe.

Instruments

Anders Miolin plays a ten-stringed guitar, which was specially developed to offer a greater range and richer tonal palette for his personal repertoire.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Debussy's inspiration was exclusively non-musical, drawing from poetry, scents, paintings, and especially colors.

Composer Biography

Debussy had an ambivalent relationship with the piano, considering himself a rather feeble pianist and unable to perform some of his more difficult Préludes.

Performer Biography

Anders Miolin, the guitarist on this album, was born in Stockholm in 1961 and studied at music academies in Copenhagen, Malmö, and Basel.

Interpretation

Anders Miolin, the guitarist on this album, transcribed Debussy's piano music for the ten-stringed guitar to "pick out the colours" already present in the music.