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Debussy’s ‘Clair de lune’ is written for solo piano ... Debussy’s piano miniature featured in the phenomenally popular Twilight films starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. This piece was ...
Debussy's Piano Possibilities Claude Debussy changed the way people thought about, wrote for, played, and listened to the piano. Chords hung in mid air. Colors flashed in a blink of light.
Debussy composed Pour le piano in 1901. The titles of the three movements — Prélude, Sarabande, and Toccata — refer to the dance suites popular during the 17th century (think Bach), but the ...
Mastering a Debussy tone has a lot to do with sensory elements and most of his pieces are extremely complex to play perfectly. But, we checked through piano lesson sites and took recommendations ...
Debussy: Complete works for solo piano, volume 2 Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano (Decca, 2 CDs) Anyone who doubts that Jean-Yves Thibaudet is his generation’s premier interpreter of French piano m… ...
Debussy’s Piano Portraits. Special | 59m 20s | Video has closed captioning. Catherine Kautsky, Professor of Music at Lawrence University, joins Wisconsin Public Radio host Norman Gilliland, to ...
On Sunday, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet returned to Orchestra Hall with an invitation to wade in a single great work: Claude Debussy’s Préludes. Considering the Préludes a “work” is ...
After Debussy’s death a number of pianists performed privately for his widow Emma, who was a former trained singer. These included Alfred Cortot, Denyse Molié, Arthur Rubinstein and Marius-François ...
Steven Osborne’s third and penultimate Debussy recital features early miniatures of an evanescent magic later resolved in Impressionism, then later still in enigmatic and bleak austerity. As on the ...