This album, titled '...les sons et les parfums', focuses on the piano music of Frédéric Chopin and Claude Debussy.
Compositional Technique
Claude Debussy's 'Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir' takes its title verbatim from a line in Charles Baudelaire's poem 'Harmonie du soir'.
Composition History
Claude Debussy dedicated his Études, composed in the summer of 1915, 'to the memory of Frédéric Chopin'.
Composer Biography
Claude Debussy's piano teacher, Antoinette Mauté, claimed to have received lessons from Frédéric Chopin, a belief that deeply influenced Debussy's musical sensibility.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Claude Debussy considered Frédéric Chopin's music to be among the finest ever written.
Performer Biography
Javier Perianes, the pianist on this recording, was awarded the 'National Music Prize' by the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 2012.
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