Debussy: ...Les préludes sont des images

Featuring

Mario Häring
Claude Debussy

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Claude Debussy, the composer, believed that the beauty of a work of art would always remain a mystery, never fully revealing how it was made.

Album & Artwork

The album title, '...LES PRÉLUDES SONT DES IMAGES', is inspired by Debussy's Préludes, where titles appear after an ellipsis at the end of each piece.

Interpretation

Mario Häring feels a sense of 'home and belonging' in Debussy's music due to its strong Asian influences, which resonates with his own Asian heritage.

Compositional Technique

Debussy's piano music combines Russian, Oriental, and East Asian influences with the traditions of Bach and French harpsichord masters.

Performer Biography

Mario Häring, the pianist, was born into a German-Japanese family of musicians and began playing violin and piano at age three.

Recording & Production

The recording was made in the Immanuelskirche Wuppertal between November 13-15, 2017, using a C. Bechstein concert grand piano D 282, No. 209913.

Compositional Technique

Debussy's music is characterized by its refinement of tone colors, using chromaticism, exotic scales, and pentatonic scales to create harmonic ambiguity.