Debussy: Images Book I, Préludes Book 1

Ammara has all the technique required for the Préludes; her greatest strength, though, is in the individual characterisation of each…Recommended — International Piano, May 2017, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 7th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: PCL0110
Label: Piano Classics
Length: 65 minutes

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Debussy: Images pour piano - Book 1

Work length17:24

Alessandra Ammara (piano)
Recorded: 30 Novembver - 2 December 2015
Recording Venue: Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy

Images, Book 1, L. 110: No. 1. Reflets dans l'eau

Track length5:58

Images, Book 1, L. 110: No. 2. Hommage à Rameau

Track length7:13

Images, Book 1, L. 110: No. 3. Mouvement

Track length4:13

Debussy: Préludes - Book 1

Work length41:17

Alessandra Ammara (piano)
Recorded: 30 Novembver - 2 December 2015
Recording Venue: Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 1. Danseuses de Delphes

Track length2:51

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 2. Voiles

Track length3:59

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 3. Le vent dans la plaine

Track length2:23

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 4. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir

Track length3:24

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 5. Les collines d'Anacapri

Track length3:28

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 6. Des pas sur la neige

Track length4:20

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest

Track length4:10

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin

Track length2:34

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 9. La sérénade interrompue

Track length2:44

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 10. La cathédrale engloutie

Track length5:23

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 11. La danse de Puck

Track length3:10

Préludes, Book 1, L. 117: No. 12. Minstrels

Track length2:51

Debussy: Nocturne

Work length6:43

Alessandra Ammara (piano)

Nocturne, L. 82: Nocturne

Track length6:43

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This new recording presents the first books of both the Preludes and the Images, works in which Debussy found his mature piano style, full of unheard colours, atmospheres and perfumes, each with a descriptive title, but even without the title pure creations of imagination and craftmanship.

Alessandra Ammara is one of the finest Italian pianists of today. She boasts of an impressive discography. Her affinity with the French impressionist music is confirmed by her extraordinary recording of Ravel’s piano works: “… superfine pianism..uncanny insight…scintillating and witty…magically evocative..fascinating and personally engaging..” [Gramophone].

Born in Florence in 1972, Alessandra Ammara studied with Roberto Caglieri, Maria Tipo, Paul Badura-Skoda, Franco Scala, Boris Petrushansky, Vitaly Margulis, Fou Ts'ong, WIlliam Grant Naborè. Her international career started in 2000, when she was one of the three top prize winners at the Esther Honens competition in Calgary. She also won major prizes in other piano competitions, like the Casagrande, Viotti and Iturbi. Alessandra Ammara performed at Musikverein in Wien, at Festspielhaus in Salzburg, at Philharmonie in Berlin and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Her debut in Washington was enthisiastically reviewed on the Washington Post. Since 1999, she forms a piano duet with her husband Roberto Prosseda. In May 2013, after some years dedicated to the family and her two young children, Alessandra Ammara has come back in the international concert career.

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Ammara has all the technique required for the Préludes; her greatest strength, though, is in the individual characterisation of each…Recommended

Debussy: Images Book I, Préludes Book 1

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