Artist: Monique Haas
Album: Debussy: Préludes I & II & Etudes
Genre: Classical, Piano
Release Date: 1963/2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 02:12:03
Total Tracks: 40
Total Size: 1,89 GB

Tracklist:

01. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 1. Danseuses de Delphes (03:21)
02. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 2. Voiles (03:10)
03. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 3. Le vent dans la plaine (02:14)
04. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 4. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir (03:31)
05. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 5. Les collines d’Anacapri (03:09)
06. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 6. Des pas sur la neige (03:59)
07. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 7. Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest (03:13)
08. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin (02:46)
09. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 9. La sérénade interrompue (02:28)
10. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 10. La cathédrale engloutie (06:38)
11. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 11. La danse de Puck (02:51)
12. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 12. Minstrels (02:10)
13. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 1. Brouillards (02:56)
14. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 2. Feuilles mortes (03:26)
15. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 3. La puerta del vino (02:54)
16. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 4. “Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses” (03:05)
17. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 5. Bruyères (02:56)
18. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 6. “General Lavine”-eccentric (02:25)
19. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (04:15)
20. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 8. Ondine (03:11)
21. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 9. Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C. (02:29)
22. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 10. Canope (03:09)
23. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 11. Les tierces alternées (02:30)
24. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 12. Feux d’artifice (04:11)
25. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 1. Pour les “cinq doigts” (d’après Monsieur Czerny) (02:41)
26. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 2. Pour les Tierces (03:17)
27. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 3. Pour les Quartes (05:14)
28. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 4. Pour les Sixtes (04:08)
29. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 5. Pour les Octaves (02:38)
30. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 6. Pour les huit doigts (01:37)
31. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 7. Pour les Degrés chromatiques (02:15)
32. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 8. Pour les Agréments (04:31)
33. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 9. Pour les Notes répétées (02:56)
34. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 10. Pour les Sonorités opposées (05:33)
35. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 11. Pour les Arpèges composés (03:46)
36. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 12. Pour les Accords (04:02)
37. Monique Haas – Pour le piano, L. 95: 3. Toccata (03:54)
38. Monique Haas – Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin (02:58)
39. Monique Haas – 12 Etudes, L.136: 6. Pour les huit doigts (01:27)
40. Monique Haas – Préludes-Book 2, L.123: 12. Feux d’artifice (03:53)

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Here are some unforgettable recordings of Debussy by Monique Haas for the Yellow Label, now available in Hi-Res for the first time. She recorded the Études (1950, Grand Prix du Disque) over the 22nd and 23rd of October 1951, in Hanover’s Beethovensaal. This disc was unavailable for a long time, but it offered an exhilarating vision of freedom which is rarely seen in this French composer’s unusually delicate work, apart from in the work of Anatoly Vedernikov in 1957 (on Melodiya) or, later, Samson François (a work which was unfortunately left unfinished). Monique Haas was a little over 40 and enjoying a promising career in Germany, and here her sense of style combines with her striking drive for clarity and an exacting poetic sense, which together more than justifies this performance’s legendary status.More than a decade later, she returned to Germany to record two fairly long sessions at Berlin’s Jesus-Christus-Kirche (on 2nd- 5th July 1962 for the first Livre, and 14th-17th January 1963 for the second): a complete and wonderfully subtle recording of the Préludes, with moderate, but absolutely precise tempos, clear harmonies, colours verging on the sparse, an expression that distills a kind of melancholy. These Préludes from 1963 bear witness to the pianist’s steadily-maturing command of this repertoire, and give a foretaste of the rather more distant style of the complete recordings which he would do for Erato a few years later. This is a capitally important re-release which has benefited from a great remastering. The album cover reproduces the cover of the Préludes, Livre II LP published in 1963 (LP138872).