Debussy: Préludes Book 2

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An invigorating, not to say heart-warming camaraderie springs up between father and son, who seem to spark ideas off one another and sound as if they are thoroughly enjoying themselves. Recorded... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2018
Catalogue No: 4798490
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 48 minutes

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Debussy: Préludes - Book 2

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Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Recorded: 2016-10
Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich

1. Brouillards

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2. Feuilles mortes

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3. La puerta del vino

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4. Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses

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5. Bruyères

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6. General Lavine - eccentric

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7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

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8. Ondine

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9. Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C.

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10. Canope

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11. Les tierces alternées

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12. Feux d'artifice

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Debussy: En blanc et noir

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Maurizio Pollini (piano), Daniele Pollini (piano)
Recorded: 2016-10
Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich

1. Avec emportement

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2. Lent. Sombre

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3. Scherzando

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DG is proud to announce the new album of icon Maestro Pollini, coinciding with the Debussy Year 2018

With this recording Pollini is closing the circle of Debussy Preludes with the long anticipated recording of the 2nd book – 18 years after he recorded Book 1, which is an evergreen in his discography

The album is completed by ‘En blanc et noir’, which makes for a unique musical encounter between the Maestro and his son Daniele Pollini – a very refined and accomplished young pianist and conductor with a growing profile

“A magical set delivered with 360-degree Vision . . . Pollini's Debussy has both poetry and muscle, his involuntary exhalations sounding like distant radio interference.”

– Concert review at Royal Festival Hall London, Nick Kimberley, Evening Standard, Feb 2014

Pollini is "one of the world's most admired recitalists. . . If the Chopin was special, Debussy's second book of Préludes was even better.

Pollini showed complete mastery of all the nuances of these delicate, and occasionally witty, miniatures."

– Concert review at Royal Festival Hall London / Concert of the Week, David Mellor, Daily Mail (London), Feb 2017

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May 2018

An invigorating, not to say heart-warming camaraderie springs up between father and son, who seem to spark ideas off one another and sound as if they are thoroughly enjoying themselves. Recorded sound quality is faithful, warm and detailed.

May 2018

These are deeply imagined, highly visual interpretations of Debussy’s Préludes. In nimble form, Pollini creates an aura of venerable insight with an astringent integrity that eschews Gallic nostalgia. In this way, Pollini, the northern Italian, is in the tradition of the pianist Robert Casadesus, of Catalan origin, who never sentimentalised the French school of composers. Yet emotion and affection are audible in Pollini’s bewitching ‘Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses’. A positively Mussorgskian ‘Hommage à S Pickwick, Esq, P P M P C’ crowns this splendid autumnal performance.

There are many things to admire in this survey of the second book of Préludes. Pollini’s awareness of colour and texture is as acute as ever, and, never a pianist to smother musical outlines with amorphous washes of colour, everything is crisp and sharply focused.

23rd February 2018

On this studio recording from 2016 he is close to his recent best, endlessly shifting between different tone colours and modes of attack, wondrously alert to the modernist tendencies of pieces that bubble along without clear-cut forms or melodic motifs. The atmosphere of his opening Brouillard couldn’t be foggier; water just drips from Ondine.

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