Debussy: Piano Music Volume 5

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Ogawa is an exceptionally fine advocate for this music; as with volume one, the piano sound is gorgeous. Her playing is never less than sensitive and beautiful...Ogawa's sense of colour combines... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Jun 2011
Catalogue No: BISCD1405
Label: BIS
Series: Noriko Ogawa Debussy Complete Piano Music
Length: 75 minutes

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Debussy: Deux arabesques, L. 66

Work length9:05

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

No. 1 in E Major

Track length5:04

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No. 2 in G Major

Track length4:01

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Debussy: Danse (Tarentelle styrienne)

Work length5:15

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

Danse, "Tarantelle styrienne"

Track length5:15

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Debussy: Ballade

Work length7:28

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

Debussy: Valse romantique (L. 71)

Work length3:28

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

Debussy: Rêverie

Work length5:08

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

Reverie

Track length5:08

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Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Work length18:10

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Prelude

Track length3:50

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II. Menuet

Track length4:54

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III. Clair de lune

Track length5:09

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IV. Passepied

Track length4:17

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Debussy: Mazurka

Work length3:01

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

Debussy: Nocturne

Work length6:24

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

Debussy: Danse bohemienne

Work length2:14

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

Debussy: Pour le piano

Work length14:49

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Noriko Ogawa
Recorded: January 2000
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Prelude

Track length4:17

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II. Sarabande

Track length5:58

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III. Toccata

Track length4:34

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Pianist Noriko Ogawa has won critical acclaim for earlier volumes of this Debussy piano music cycle, with her interpretations of the composer’s sets of Images and of Études singled out as belonging to the finest in the discography.

On this the fifth and final disc, Noriko Ogawa again offers us scintillating performances of works both well-known and less often heard.

The two Arabesques were among Debussy’s most popular works already during his lifetime, with hundreds of thousand of copies sold before his death. Another ‘hit’ was Rêverie, which Debussy himself wanted to suppress, but which at one stage even ended up as No. 1 on the US Billboard chart in a swing arrangement.

Less familiar are some of the youthful works, for instance Danse bohémienne, Debussy’s first piano piece composed at the age of 18. But the two main works on the disc are indisputably the suites Pour le Piano and Suite Bergamasque, which Debussy completed in his maturity.

Reviews

September 2011

Ogawa is an exceptionally fine advocate for this music; as with volume one, the piano sound is gorgeous. Her playing is never less than sensitive and beautiful...Ogawa's sense of colour combines with clarity of line and a genial charm that brings alive not only the better known works...but also less characteristic pieces such as the Danse bohemienne...another very enjoyable contribution to a strong cycle.

Awards Issue 2011

Ogawa is thoroughly capable of rising to the occasion: notice the verve and point she brings to the opening Preludes of the Suite Bergamasuqe and Pour le piano suites. BIS's mellow resonance falls as easily on the ear as Ogawa's agreeable yet inconsistently inspired pianism

September 2011

The present volume evinces all of the pianistic virtues that Ogawa has previously shown: crisp fingerwork; clear articulation even in pedalled textures; fluidity and flexibility within a steady rhythm and pulse; lovely touch and tone; ample power wherever needed.

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