It is 100 years since the death of Claude Debussy in 1918. It may have seemed at the time that the inimitably French, impressionist style he established would prove to be of less importance than the ...

‘Clair de lune’, meaning moonlight, was written by the Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy. Here’s everything you need to know about this piano masterpiece Claude Debussy started writing the ...

Pascal Rogé first recorded Debussy in the 1970s for Decca. The Onyx recordings collected here were made between 2004 and 2011 and find the older Rogé in more overtly thoughtful mode than his younger ...

Flex your piano fingers with these 7 easiest Debussy preludes and piano pieces. Claude Debussy is one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most prominent composers connected with ...

A Festival Vancouver presentation featuring Philippe Cassard. At the UBC First Nations Longhouse on Saturday, August 14 The UBC First Nations Longhouse is a handsome, airy room, but its very airiness- ...

When Víkingur Ólafsson was about 5 years old, he already knew what he wanted to be. "It sounds crazy, but I always saw myself as a concert pianist," he says. "Even if I wasn't a good pianist." Over ...

Debussy: Préludes, Book One; DéUn Cahier DéEsquisses; Piece Pour Piano; Hommage A Joseph Haydn; La Plus Que Lente. Noriko Ogawa, piano (BIS Bis-CD-1205, full price). SHEéLL be appearing in a world ...

The second book of Debussy's Préludes was published in 1913. It shows continuation in the development of harmonic freedom and thus ever more tenuous tonal relations. Brouillards depicts fog's ...

Had Monet not used the word "impression" in the title of his painting of a sunrise in 1872, the art critic Louis Leroy would have probably not come up with it by himself for the review of the ...