A programme which bridges Debussy’s first work for piano (the Danse bohémienne, from 1880) and his last (Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon, from 1917). Steven Osborne is equally responsive to the very different musical moods of both.
‘One of the things that makes Osborne’s interpretations so appealing is the spontaneous ease with which they meet the ear. I can’t think of another reading of the Suite bergamasque that sounds ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘Steven Osborne find[s] such limpid but perfectly focused tone and range of colours. This isn’t ‘impressionistic’ Debussy in that mistake sense that there’s a wash of sound or smears of paint—detail, ...
BBC Music Magazine‘Steven Osborne find[s] such limpid but perfectly focused tone and range of colours. This isn’t ‘impressionistic’ Debussy in that mistake sense that there’s a wash of sound or smears of paint—detail, ...