The Suite pour le piano (for the piano) is a tremendous departure in Debussy's piano music.
While the SuiteBergamasque included the beautiful and harmonically sophisticated Clair de Lune, the Prelude from Suite pour le piano shows for the first time the harmonic elements, virtuosity, pianism and raw power that was to appear in Debussy's subsequent piano works.
From Roberts, page 5-6: "For one contemporary critic the suite [pour le piano] had 'the force of a programme, if not a manifesto.' It was a work, Emille Vuillermoz wrote, dedicated 'not to instrumentalists but to the instrument itself'." on p.
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Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. Composed by Claude Debussy
Suite Persane for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons Nihavend
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For example, the "Hallelujah chorus" from Handel's oratorio Messiah may be published separately for performance by a church choir; or the movement "Claire de lune" from Debussy's Suitebergamasque for piano is sometimes performed separately.
In a uniform title for such separately published or recorded movements, the entire work is named first, and then the part is named.
Clair de lune : from the Suitebergamasque for piano...
In summer of 1903 Debussy started to play to his friend Ricardo Viñes parts of a new "Suitebergamasque" in three movements, ending with "L'île joyeuse"; in January 1904 he played Viñes all three pieces, and at about the same time adverts by the publisher Eugène Fromont identified the suite's opening piece as "Masques".
The suite, though, never appeared as such; in its place Fromont published, in 1905, a totally different four-movement
Meanwhile the missing central piece is not hard to identify.
Then it becomes more urgent; rippling notes bring a change of mood, the surface of the pool is disturbed, the senses race, the pulse quickens, and then finally the opening theme returns, and all is serene once more.
Above all other pieces 'Claire de lune' from his 'Suitebergamasque' is immediately recognisable as the music of Debussy.
These events caused considerable scandal at the time, particularly when a daughter Claude-Emma and whom Debussy affectionately called Chouchou was born to Emma in 1905.
The works are printed according to their chronological order of composition, illustrating the development of Debussy's compositional technique.
SuiteBergamasque contains the famous Clair de lune ("Moonlight").
In preparing this Urtext edition, editorial additions have been reduced to a minimum and are clearly distinguished from Dubussy's original markings.
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Clair de lune, for orchestra or various other arrangements (from "SuiteBergamasque" for piano), L. Composed by Claude Debussy
Suite Persane for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons Nihavend
Debussy fans have cause to celebrate here: This CD presents rare recordings of four fascinating works, and the first digital recording of his steamy, exotic Six Epitaphes Antiques, a series of piano duets that were faithfully transcribed for orchestra by the fine Debussy conductor Ernest Ansermet.
Composed for orchestra and wordless chorus, it is alternately languorous and energized, much like Spring itself.
The SuiteBergamasque (orchestrated by Gustave Cloez and André Caplet) contains the composer's justly famous "Clair de lune" as well as three dance movements, each lovelier than the last.
The glut of Debussy recordings continues, here with Alain Planes making music on an instrument by Julius Bluether, Leipzig, 1902, which permits a fourth string to vibrate sympathetically with the other three strings in the treble register.
The second Arabesque pays homage to Schumann, a dreamy march and scherzando.
Planes manages a fine balance between legato and non-legato touches in Debussy's Menuet from the Bergamo suite.
