Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes II (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Maurizio Pollini - Debussy: Préludes II (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz] Download

Artist: Maurizio Pollini
Album: Debussy: Préludes II
Genre: Classical, Piano
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 48:39
Total Tracks: 15
Total Size: 790 MB

Tracklist:

01. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-1. Brouillards (02:36)
02. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-2. Feuilles mortes (02:25)
03. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-3. La puerta del vino (02:37)
04. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-4. Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses (02:59)
05. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-5. Bruyères (02:20)
06. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-6. General Lavine-eccentric (02:16)
07. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (03:34)
08. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-8. Ondine (02:48)
09. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-9. Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C. (02:27)
10. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-10. Canope (02:24)
11. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-11. Les tierces alternées (02:27)
12. Maurizio Pollini – Debussy: Préludes-Book 2, L.123-12. Feux d’artifice (04:05)
13. Maurizio Pollini & Daniele Pollini – Debussy: En blanc et noir, L.134-1. Avec emportement (04:13)
14. Maurizio Pollini & Daniele Pollini – Debussy: En blanc et noir, L.134-2. Lent. Sombre (07:11)
15. Maurizio Pollini & Daniele Pollini – Debussy: En blanc et noir, L.134-3. Scherzando (04:09)

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Why yes indeed, this is a very recent recording of Debussy by Maurizio Pollini (with his own son Daniele at his side for En blanc et en noir), made in late 2016 in Munich’s sumptuous Herkulesaal. In it, the old lion of the piano unfurls for us the sumptuous and enigmatic musical tapestry of the Second Book of Debussy’s Preludes, finished in 1912: a superlatively delicate pattern, more sketched and suggested than really followed, the pianist being enjoined not to “overdo it”. Maurizio Pollini, 74 when the recording was made, can measure his performance out perfectly, and knows how to give the impression that the music is being written and improvised as he plays. And the album closes with En blanc et en noir for two pianos, of which Debussy wrote in 1915: “I have suffered greatly from the long drought imposed upon my brain by the war”; after months of silence, and his work editing Chopin, he entered a period of fevered creativity which continued with the two Books of the Études and the final sonatas. First entitled “Caprices en blanc et noir”, the three pieces of En blanc et noir refer neatly to the instrument’s keys and, as Debussy writes in 1916, “they aim to draw their colour, their emotion, from the simple piano, like Velasquez’s greys”. Grey, the fruit of the meeting of black and white…

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