Emil de Cou, associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra. (Scott Suchman) This weekend, the Virginia Chamber Orchestra is giving a couple of premieres. What's notable about them is they're ...
Intermède was only discovered in 2001 in a hand-written copy made by Maurice Dumesnil, a student of Debussy and a Debussy scholar. It is closely related to the Scherzo-Intermezzo from Debussy's 1880 ...
Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...
Sandrine PiauPiano: David KadouchThe duo of Piau and Kadouch employs a technique of "stripping away the number of notes (expression) of voice and piano to the limit, thereby expanding the poetic space ...
March 25 th: It’s the Deathiversary of Claude Debussy today, one of the most influential and important composers of the last 100+ years, whose influence is still very much felt. Debussy, probably even ...
It turns out that Claude Debussy lived exactly as any self-respecting artist should. He drank too much, showed unwise taste in women, never got the hang of money and assumed that anyone who didn’t see ...
SO MUCH has been said and written about Debussy that there would appear to be nothing to add that is not already known. There was a time, and it seems not so long ago, when this name aroused hot ...
Julien Behr/Vannina Santoni/Alexandre Duhamel/Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi) Period instruments and French voices add an extra dimension to François-Xavier Roth’s recording “Pelléas ...
Only around 20 people were present for Debussy’s burial at Père Lachaise Cemetery on March 28, 1918. His death three nights earlier had come during the final German assault on Paris of the first world ...
Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...
Debussy dedicated his 1908 cycle Children's Corner to his five-year old daughter, writing in his dedication: "To my beloved little Chouchou, with the tender excuses of her father for that which ...
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