Debussy: Preludes

Classic French-style pianism of the old school from Rouvier in the early 1980s: the most defined, playfully light technique you could hope for. Poised, nuanced, cool, his Debussy is positively pointillist and always idiomatic. Jessica Duchen


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Jessica Duchen

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:35 pm

COMPOSERS: Debussy
LABELS: Dal Segno
WORKS: Preludes
PERFORMER: Jacques Rouvier (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: DSPRCCD 043

Classic French-style pianism of the old school from Rouvier in the early 1980s: the most defined, playfully light technique you could hope for. Poised, nuanced, cool, his Debussy is positively pointillist and always idiomatic. Jessica Duchen

Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.
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