Claude Debussy accomplished his closing orchestral work, the ballet Jeux, in 1913. By the years of the primary world conflict, as much as his demise in 1918, he composed piano works, songs and the primary three of a deliberate set of six sonatas. Kirill Gerstein’s fascinatingly compiled assortment, which comes handsomely packaged with essays and modern pictures, concentrates on the piano music and songs, that are interspersed with music by the Armenian ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet, whose work Debussy a lot admired. The Komitas piano items and vocal works listed below are basically folks tune transcriptions, although Gerstein and the soprano Ruzan Mantashyan carry out them with nice talent and care, and it’s inevitably the music by Debussy that’s the actual focus of the set.
Gerstein is great if just a bit medical in Debussy’s 12 Études, and he’s partnered by Thomas Adès in a advantageous efficiency of the two-piano En Blanc et Noir, and by Katia Skanavi within the six Epigraphes Antiques. A sequence of ultimate works consists of Debussy’s final piano piece, the tiny Les Soirs Illuminés par l’Ardeur de Charbon (Evenings Lit by Glowing Coals), which was solely rediscovered in 2001, and his final tune, the touching Noel des Enfants Qui n’ont Plus de Maisons (Christmas Carol for Homeless Kids).
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