Notes and Editorial Reviews
A critic once wrote of a pianist: ‘His restraint and discretion make one forget all considerations of technical dexterity. Thus the naked soul of the work is placed before the audience; its action is direct; the interpreter is lost sight of.’ The pianist was Debussy; but how easily could the same be said of Michelangeli. Only in a slightly mannered rendering of ‘La fille aux chevaux de lin’ is one aware of being subjected to an interpretation: all else is a deceptive effortlessness and the spectacle of a gift dedicated not to exposing itself but to the service of the music. Buy it.
Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)
-- Christopher Wood, BBC Music Magazine
A critic once wrote of a pianist: ‘His restraint and discretion make one forget all considerations of technical dexterity. Thus the naked soul of the work is placed before the audience; its action is direct; the interpreter is lost sight of.’ The pianist was Debussy; but how easily could the same be said of Michelangeli. Only in a slightly mannered rendering of ‘La fille aux chevaux de lin’ is one aware of being subjected to an interpretation: all else is a deceptive effortlessness and the spectacle of a gift dedicated not to exposing itself but to the service of the music. Buy it.
Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)
-- Christopher Wood, BBC Music Magazine
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Works on This Recording
1.
Préludes, Book 1 by Claude Debussy
Performer:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1909-1910; France
2.
Préludes, Book 2 by Claude Debussy
Performer:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912-1913; France
3.
Images for Piano, Set 1 by Claude Debussy
Performer:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1905; France
4.
Images for Piano, Set 2 by Claude Debussy
Performer:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1907; France
5.
Children's Corner by Claude Debussy
Performer:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1906-1908; France
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