Préludes: Volume 1

by Claude Debussy / Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Préludes: Volume 1 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1978
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Country: Italy
  • Length: 43:52

Artists on this release: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A towering achievement in classical recording, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's interpretation of Claude Debussy's 'Préludes' is a marvel of virtuosic precision. The album highlights incredibly complex, deeply passionate impressionistic piano compositions, delivering remarkably sparse, beautifully sombre, and wonderfully atmospheric acoustic performances.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, complex, acoustic, technical, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 1. Danseuses de Delphes (3:17)
  2. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 2. Voiles (4:30)
  3. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 3. Le vent dans la plaine (2:10)
  4. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 4. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir (3:42)
  5. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 5. Les collines d'Anacapri (3:17)
  6. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 6. Des pas sur la neige (5:03)
  7. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest (3:38)
  8. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin (2:51)
  9. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 9. La sérénade interrompue (2:45)
  10. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 10. La cathédrale engloutie (6:52)
  11. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 11. La danse de Puck (3:14)
  12. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 12. Minstrels (2:30)

Credits

  • Claude Debussy - primary artist, composed by
  • Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - primary artist, piano
  • Klaus Hiemann - engineer
  • Knut Franke - liner notes
  • Jacques Fournier - liner notes [traduction]
  • Maria Grazia Kölling-Bambini - liner notes [traduzione]
  • John Coombs - liner notes [translation]
  • Annette Lederer - photography by
  • Karl Faust - producer
  • Cord Garben - recording supervisor

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