Claude Debussy: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 2
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SKU: NX.8573463

By Jean-Pierre Armengaud; Olivier Chauzu. By Claude Debussy. Classical. CD (1 disc). Published by Naxos (NX.8573463).

UPC: 747313346370.

In 1891 Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme asked Debussy to compose incidental music for a theatrical version of his poem L'Apres-midi d'un faune (The afternoon of the faun) and the resulting work, with its innovative melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic writing, is both impassioned and expressive. The four-hand arrangement was made by Ravel in 1910. Subtitled "esquisses symphoniques" - or symphonic sketches - La Mer, inspired by the natural phenomena of water, light and wind, is a masterpiece that doesn't conform to structural convention. Of the evocatively enchanting Images, he wrote that it marked a departure for him, dealing with "realities" not impressionism.