Debussy: Violin Sonata / Cello Sonata / Children's Corner

Featuring

Gunilla von Bahr
Arve Tellefsen
Hans Pålsson
Erik Saedén
Frans Helmerson
Märta Schéle

Elisif Lundén-Bergfelt
Dag Achatz
Claude Debussy

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Instruments

Arve Tellefsen, the violinist on this album, plays a Joseph Guarnerius violin from Cremona, made in 1739.

Instruments

Frans Helmerson, the cellist, performs on a Lorenzo Ventapane cello from Naples, crafted in 1820.

Instruments

The pianists Hans Pålsson, Elisif Lundén, and Dag Achatz all perform on a Bösendorfer 275 Grand Piano for this recording.

Composition History

Debussy's Violin Sonata and Cello Sonata were composed when he was seriously ill and during the Great War, with the Violin Sonata being his last public performance.

Composition History

Children's Corner, a piano suite, was written by Claude Debussy in 1908 for his three-year-old daughter, Chouchou, with titles in English likely due to her English governess.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The Cello Sonata was planned as the first of six sonatas, with which Debussy intended to return to classicism, expressing itself in purity of line and compression of utterance.