{"product_id":"alessandra-ammara_debussy-integrale-de-loeuvre-pour-piano-seul-vol-2_2026_disco-outhere-distribution-france","title":"Debussy : intégrale de l'oeuvre pour piano seul - vol. 2","description":"This second volume of a Debussy series has generated critical enthusiasm and is compared to those of Cortot and Gieseking. In 2016, Alessandra Ammara was praised for her album of Mendelssohn duets with her husband, Roberto Prosseda. The following year, her first Debussy recording on Piano Classics received equally glowing acclaim. This second volume elegantly completes her recordings of the Préludes and Images, to which are added the more innocent charms of the Suite Bergamasque. Thus, the album covers the first and the penultimate published piano cycle by Debussy, for although the Suite was not published until 1905, it was composed as early as 1890. In their titles, three of the four movements — Prélude, Menuet and Passepied — evoke the formal elegance of a Baroque dance suite, but the elusive character and freedom of the music owe more to the poetry of Verlaine, who used the archaic term \"bergamasque\" in his poem Clair de lune, which became the third movement of the suite, Debussy's greatest success. In the Images and the Préludes, Debussy imbues their second volumes (composed in 1907 and 1912-1913 respectively) with darker and more melancholic tonal colors, sharper contrasts, exuberant outbursts, and even sometimes frenetic humor. The portraits of characters and landscapes are more finely chiseled, more charged with intimate intensity. They therefore demand more from the performer, and this more than ever in the dark and wild magic of \"Feux d'artifice\" which closes the Préludes. The three Images of Book II are linked by their association with Louis Laloy, a friend of Debussy, and by extension by their shared fascination with China and the foreign world of East Asian culture. The bells of \"Cloches à travers les feuilles\" ring out from the church of Laloy's hometown; the title of \"Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut\" was proposed by Laloy himself, and the goldfish — \"Poissons d'or\" of the last panel of the triptych — swim and shimmer in many Chinese lacquered artworks.","brand":"Alessandra Ammara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57475787915608,"sku":null,"price":20260128.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/alessandra-ammara_debussy-integrale-de-loeuvre-pour-piano-seul-vol-2_2026_disco-outhere-distribution-france","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}