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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune & En blanc et noir - Constant: Impressions de Pelléas

11/16/2018, 12 Tracks, 2:03:40

Featuring

  • Jan Michiels
  • Inge Spinette
  • Lore Binon
  • Camille Bauer
  • Yves Saelens
  • Pierre-Yves Pruvot
  • Tijl Faveyts
  • Claude Debussy
  • Marius Constant

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Instruments

The Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand Piano, commissioned by Daniel Barenboim, aims to combine the rich sound of historical pianos with the volume and clarity of modern concert grands.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The central movement of Debussy's En blanc et noir, dedicated to a lieutenant killed in WWI, includes a Lutheran chorale symbolizing the German invader and music resembling the Marseillaise.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand Piano uses a design where bass strings run parallel to others, a departure from the modern cross-strung grand piano concept.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

In his opera Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy avoided duets and followed the natural prosody of the text to ensure clarity of expression and continuous action.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Debussy believed music begins where words fail, expressing the inexpressible, and should emerge from and return to shadows, always quiet and discreet.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Marius Constant, a successor to Olivier Messiaen in the Académie des Beaux-Arts, created a shortened, chamber version of Debussy's opera, Impressions de Pelléas, for six singers and two pianists.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Debussy composed his En blanc et noir for two pianos during a period of intense creation in the summer of 1915, amidst World War I.

Source: Booklet

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