Debussy: 脡tudes
by Mitsuko Uchida
- Type: Album
- Released: 26 January 1990
- Label: Philips
- Country: Japan
- Length: 1:09:47
- Community rating: 4.35/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Mitsuko Uchida performs all twelve of Debussy's '脡tudes', L. 136, the cycle Debussy composed in 1915 and dedicated to Chopin. The recording received a Gramophone Award and a Penguin Guide Rosette, and it closes with the final study, 'Pour les accords'.
Genres
Descriptors: virtuosic, piano, delicate, technical, complex
Tracklist
- Discussion (23:16)
- 1. Pour Les 芦Cinq Doigts禄 (D'apr猫s Monsieur Czerny) (2:53)
- 2. Pour Les Tierces (3:24)
- 3. Pour Les Quartes (5:22)
- 4. Pour Les Sixtes (3:56)
- 5. Pour Les Octaves (3:09)
- 6. Pour Les Huit Doigts (1:37)
- 7. Pour Les Degr茅s Chromatiques (2:07)
- 8. Pour Les Agr茅ments (4:49)
- 9. Pour Les Notes R茅p茅t茅es (3:20)
- 10. Pour Les Sonorit茅s Oppos茅es (5:19)
- 11. Pour Les Arp猫ges Compos茅s (4:47)
- 12. Pour Les Accords (4:41)
- Titles (1:07)
Credits
- Claude Debussy - primary artist, composed by
- Mitsuko Uchida - primary artist, piano
- Jan Wesselink - edited by [tape editor]
- Onno Scholtze - engineer [balance engineer], engineer [recording engineer]
- Wilhelm Hellweg - engineer [balance engineer], producer [producer]
- Louwrens Langevoort - a&r [artists and recording production]
- Estelle Kercher - art direction
- Misha Donat - liner notes [english: in the footsteps of couperin and chopin]
- Wilfried Sczepan - liner notes [french to german translation: quintessenz der kunst debussys]
- Jean-Jacques Velly - liner notes [french: quintessence de l'art de debussy]
- Gianfranco Vinay - liner notes [italian: la "ricerca dell'inanalizzabile"]
- Lord Snowdon - photography by