 | from Debussy: Préludes (CDA67530) 1 Brouillards: Modéré [3'14] 37 minutes 10 seconds 12 tracks2 Feuilles mortes: Lent et mélancolique [2'41] 3 La Puerta del Vino: Mouvement de Habanera [3'37] 4 Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses: Rapide et léger [2'41] 5 Bruyères: Calme [2'42] 6 «General Lavine»—excentric: Dans le style et le mouvement d'un Cake-Walk [2'42] 7 La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune: Lent [4'21] 8 Ondine: Scherzando [2'57] 9 Hommage à S Pickwick Esq PPMPC: Grave [2'09] 10 Canope: Très calme et doucement triste [2'55] 11 Les tierces alternées: Modérément animé [2'22] 12 Feux d'artifice: Modérément animé [4'49] ‘A good recording of the Debussy Préludes should feel like an occasion, and Steven Osborne delivers. His playing seeps with atmosphere and he delves deep into the composer’s sound world. There is thro ... ‘The finesse that Steven Osborne infallibly brings to his playing pays winning dividends on this recording of the two books of Debussy's Préludes’ (The Daily Telegraph) ‘His playing has the same luminous precision as the Seurat painting Beach at Bas Butin on the booklet cover. Just as the painter [turns his] Divisionist dots into shimmering pictures, so Osborn ... |