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On sale -30%Day after day, week after week, there are so many piano recordings to wade through, and very few, alas, are worth listening to. But this new recording of Debussy’s Préludes is extraordinary. The pianist Francesco Piemontesi is a disciple of Alfred Brendel, Perahia, Alexis Weissenberg, and especially Cécile Ousset, who gave him a sheet-note copy of these Préludes as annotated by Marcel Ciampi – upon which the indications of Debussy himself were included. Piemontesi is, unquestionably, at the top of his technical game, this almost doesn’t need mentioning, and he works hard to get all kinds of conceivable shades out of his piano – especially the most impossible and unimaginable. A piano evoking such a variety of colours is more than just a scarcity; it is something unusual, and, in the hands of Piemontesi, it reaches the heights of the ‘orchestral’. His pianistic pallet is infinite in its sonorities, his handling of the instrument like black magic. A truly great Debussy interpretation that unfolds the revelations of the original partition. © SM/Qobuz
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Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
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Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Claude Debussy, Composer - Francesco Piemontesi, Artist, MainArtist
2016 (C) 2014 naïve classique 2016 (P) 2014 naïve classique
Album review
Day after day, week after week, there are so many piano recordings to wade through, and very few, alas, are worth listening to. But this new recording of Debussy’s Préludes is extraordinary. The pianist Francesco Piemontesi is a disciple of Alfred Brendel, Perahia, Alexis Weissenberg, and especially Cécile Ousset, who gave him a sheet-note copy of these Préludes as annotated by Marcel Ciampi – upon which the indications of Debussy himself were included. Piemontesi is, unquestionably, at the top of his technical game, this almost doesn’t need mentioning, and he works hard to get all kinds of conceivable shades out of his piano – especially the most impossible and unimaginable. A piano evoking such a variety of colours is more than just a scarcity; it is something unusual, and, in the hands of Piemontesi, it reaches the heights of the ‘orchestral’. His pianistic pallet is infinite in its sonorities, his handling of the instrument like black magic. A truly great Debussy interpretation that unfolds the revelations of the original partition. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:20:23
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Francesco Piemontesi
- Composer: Claude Debussy
- Label: naïve classique
- Genre: Classical
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