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MUNCH, CHARLES／Saint-Sa? ns: Symphony No. 3; Debussy: La Mer; Ibert: Escales
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The Szymanowski was the highlight of a program that also offered Mr. Dutoit and the Philadelphians in technically brilliant but curiously detached performances of "La Mer," by Debussy, and "The Rite of Spring," by Stravinsky.
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MUNCH, CHARLES／Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3; Debussy: La Mer; Ibert: Escales
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Mention the word ‘étude,’ and compositions by Chopin, Debussy or Czerny may come to mind.
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I've always loved Debussy for this refined, very velvety sonic palette, harmonically and timbrally.
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As in the Debussy, the layering of texture brought chiarascuro to the music, the melody highlighted through the limpid falling thirds of the first and the pulsating chords of the second, with its emotive central interlude.
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Debussy made as much use of silence as of sound to express emotion, and in the orchestration each instrument was given a delicate colour of its own to blend into the painting.
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The Festival opens amidst the ravishing sound-world of Debussy's ground-breaking String Quartet in G minor.
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Surrounding these new works were solid interpretations of Liszt, Debussy and Granados ripe with coloristic variety and prodigious technical execution.
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The Debussy she sneaked in between the covers of a Bach Mass was all contrived nature and yet gorgeous as a meadowlark.
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Perhaps the biggest disappointment - certainly for organists - is the organ writing, and particularly Debussy's limited use of the pedal-board.
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The gamelan of Bali in particular attracted him, as it had Debussy and Ravel, with its sharp contrasts of rippling color and percussive blows.
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Debussy was among those who heard them, and began a tradition of transforming the gamelan into concert music.
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Woven through several two- to six-minute selections (ideal for downloading from iTunes, yet cherished by violin fans) is the theme of night in multiple manifestations: The title track, a song by Claude Debussy; "Nocturne," by the ill-fated Lili Boulanger, who died at the age of 24; moonlight (Debussy's beloved "Clair de lune"); and dreams (Gabriel Fauré's wistful "Après un rêve," which Ms. Jansen plays with tender yearning).
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Many viewers in the large Debussy cinema also appeared to take objection to von Trier's decision to dedicate his film to the revered Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky.
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On the other hand, Debussy seems at times to call for a delicacy beyond the capability of fingers or for a piano which has no hammers at all.
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Nobody, but nobody did Debussy better than Stokowski and it is nice to have these lagniappes appended to the Holst.
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As the 737 swept through the blue skies of northern France, over the Massif Central, chasing the sun down to the south, Meredith listened to Debussy's Suite Bergamasque on her headphones and wrote until her arm ached, filling page after small, lined page with neat notes and sketches.
Sepulchre
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MADRID—Debussy once wrote that music should be "a hermetical science," encoded so that people didn't treat it "as casually as they do a handkerchief.
An Otherworldly Opera
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Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Menuet Antique and Pavane pour une infante défunte are finely crafted readings as are Debussy's two Danses for harp and string orchestra.
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LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by clarinetist Wonkak Kim and pianist Grace Eunhye Choi, works by Schumann, Debussy, Berg, Widor and Ponchielli. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.,
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During his childhood, Martyn's father would gather the family around the piano for singalongs, while his mother's love of Debussy equally inspired the singer from an early age.
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Just as in Debussy's Preludes, these epigraphs are also metaphors, hypallages and paradigms that can be interpreted ad libitum.
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Here, Enescu seems to be pushing Debussy's and Ravel's piano music into hyperspace, and not just with titles such as ‘Carillon nocturne,’ an eyebrow-raising yet gorgeous exercise in polytonality.
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British composer Colin Matthews is orchestrating all 24 of Debussy's piano preludes, a project which many will find either foolhardy or sacrilegious.
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He sweeps through the Debussy pieces with a nonchalance that is almost disarming but his keyboard touch is indeed lithe and very beautiful.
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WONKAK KIM AND GRACE EUNHYE CHOI Clarinetist Kim and pianist Choi perform works by Schumann, Debussy, Berg, Widor and Ponchielli. 3-5 p.m. The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.,
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Debussy's quartet moves like a snake through the forest, tracing an unpredictable, yet in hindsight inevitable, path.
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Claude?Achille Debussy is considered as a mch influential composer and innovator in Europe around the turn of last century.
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There is of course a typical difference between the "plastic" imagination, dealing with clear images, objective relations, and seen at its best in the arts of form like sculpture and architecture, and that "diffluent" imagination which prefers vaguely outlined images, which is markedly subjective and emotional, and of which modern music like Debussy's is a good example.
A Study of Poetry
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Accompanied by Debussy piano preludes interpreted by Steve Gosling, the dancers took wing, as though they were laughing through the air.
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Set to chamber music by Debussy, it evokes a realm of nature in which myriad gods and goddesses are immanent.
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His formative student years were spent in Paris as a pupil of d' Indy at the Schola Cantorum, though he learnt more from the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel.
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Richard Strauss and Mahler largely get dumped, at least as far as musical cribs go, and Bloch gets to fight it out with Debussy alone.
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Debussy's supple rhythms and rich harmonic language, influenced in part by the ancient music of the Far East, became the ideal vehicle for painting a mood, no matter how complex or ephemeral.
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He brought subtle pianistic colors and fleet-fingered panache to Debussy's magnum chamber opus.
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And because Ravel and Debussy have this incitement steadily in view, their music is a music of few strokes, comparable indeed to the pictural art of Japan which it so often recalls.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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As his Debussy cycle for Onyx has gone on, it has become increasingly obvious that Pascal Rogé has little time for the common perception of Debussy as an "impressionist" composer, all pastel shades and dewy outlines.
Debussy: Études
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He studied the work of classical composers like Debussy and Stravinsky.
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A recent project of yours has been the orchestration of Debussy preludes.
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Claude Debussy Paris, France, 1902This sensuous, Symbolist tragedy in 12 tableaux marks a radical departure: instead of arias and set pieces, the text is declaimed, inspired by Wagner, over an ever-moving orchestration.
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You would believe that Debussy himself wrote the orchestral version of Claire de lune.
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The prize item was Debussy's Proses Lyriques, four songs set to the composer's own poetry and for some reason not often sung in recital.
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The opening motif of the second part is extremely Debussian in its parallel organum chords, much as in Debussy's Nuages of 1899.
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With musical settings that evoke Rachmaninoff by way of Debussy and sometimes inflected with J. S. Bach, she often moved beyond the realm of jazz into a semiclassical sphere, although the label semiclassical really doesn't suffice, because the music is improvised.
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Debussy stands with Mussorgsky, Mahler, Reger, and Strauss among the great progenitors of Modernism.
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The castanets of Spain have clicked seductively through many a French score, and Debussy can manage them as deftly as anyone.
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This time all three acts were paired with a work from Debussy – Act I with Printemps, Act II with Trois Nocturnes, and Act III with La damoiselle élue.
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One tone, one chord, a single movement, three, four notes in melodic succession, are in their musical apperception the substratum of such unutterable and intense musical emotion that it becomes practically impossible in these sound-areas to make music freely and completely in the manner of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, or Palestrina.
Banishing silence
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Yet however much one likes the idea of these works, with their debts to Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky, one feels underwhelmed, as if Szymanowski lacked the courage of his convictions, and never comfortably inhabited the musical world he had fashioned for himself.
Szymanowski Focus
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It's sensuous, sensual art, much like Debussy and Ravel at the same time, but heavier on the perfume, gold lamé, and red velvet.
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They played Tschaikowsky first, the tender and passionate "Melodie"; then a lilting measure from Debussy's "Faun," followed by a solemnly lovely Brahms arrangement devised by the virtuoso himself.
Success A Novel
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Many viewers in the large Debussy cinema also appeared to take objection to von Trier's decision to dedicate his film to the revered Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky.
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August 1862, als éischt vu fënnef Kanner, gouf de Claude Debussy als Jong vum Manuel-Achille Debussy a sénger Fra Victorine agedroen.
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Although he was composing at the same time as Bartok, Debussy, Ravel and Iyes, he remained true to the romantic tradition and expanded it in his use of long melodic lines, complex tonalities and more pianistic and color effects.
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He knew Debussy, his alleged predecessor as Grand Master—they were both frequenters of the great Paris salons—but then a hoaxer would have selected public figures whose paths were known to have crossed.
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It points up his similarities to classical composers like Debussy and Chopin.
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Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.
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He knew Debussy, his alleged predecessor as Grand Master—they were both frequenters of the great Paris salons—but then a hoaxer would have selected public figures whose paths were known to have crossed.
The Sion Revelation
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I remember listening to Debussy preludes for the first couple of times with similar enjoyable incomprehension.
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Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score.
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If piano students are playing Mozart and Haydn sonatas, Chopin nocturnes and Debussy preludes, they certainly are capable of playing some chamber music repertoire.
