Jean-Bernard Pommier plays Debussy

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Pommier's Debussy selection displays many facets of both the composer and performer. Children's Corner is spirited and the Estampes particularly engaging. The highlight is a wonderfully droll... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

Release Date: 6th Jul 2009
Catalogue No: 6994712
Label: Erato
Series: Virgo
Length: 59 minutes

Debussy: Pour le piano

Work length12:53

$3.90

$5.10

Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Recorded: 1988-09-14
Recording Venue: 12-14 September 1988 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road., London

I. Prélude

Track length4:09

$1.30

$1.70

II. Sarabande

Track length4:47

$1.30

$1.70

III. Toccata

Track length3:57

$1.30

$1.70

Debussy: Children's Corner

Work length16:02

$7.80

$10.20

Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Recorded: 1988-09-14
Recording Venue: 12-14 September 1988 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

Track length2:13

$1.30

$1.70

II. Jimbo's Lullaby

Track length3:35

$1.30

$1.70

III. Serenade for the Doll

Track length2:21

$1.30

$1.70

IV. The Snow is Dancing

Track length2:34

$1.30

$1.70

V. The Little Shepherd

Track length2:32

$1.30

$1.70

VI. Golliwogg's Cake Walk

Track length2:47

$1.30

$1.70

Debussy: Estampes (3)

Work length13:37

$3.90

$5.10

Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Recorded: 1988-09-14
Recording Venue: 12-14 September 1988 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Pagodes

Track length4:31

$1.30

$1.70

La soirée dans Grenade

Track length5:15

$1.30

$1.70

Jardins sous la pluie

Track length3:51

$1.30

$1.70

Debussy: La plus que lente

Work length4:26

$1.30

$1.70

Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Recorded: 1988-09-14
Recording Venue: 12-14 September 1988 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Debussy: Deux arabesques, L. 66

Work length6:55

$2.60

$3.40

Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Recorded: 1988-09-14
Recording Venue: 12-14th September 1988 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

I. Andantino con moto

Track length3:33

$1.30

$1.70

II. Allegretto scherzando

Track length3:22

$1.30

$1.70

Debussy: Pièce pour l'oeuvre du ‘Vêtement du blessé'

Work length1:08

$1.30

$1.70

Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Recorded: 1988-09-14
Recording Venue: 12-14th September 1988 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Debussy: L'isle joyeuse

Work length6:05

$1.30

$1.70

Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
Recorded: 1988-09-14
Recording Venue: 12-14 September 1988 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

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Claude Debussy was an excellent pianist, and Marguerite Long, who worked with him, admired “the suppleness, caress and depth of his touch”, as well as his “full, intense sonority, free of any harshness in the attack, like Chopin”. After the elegant, delicate Arabesques of 1888, in 1901 Debussy published his first important piano work, Pour le piano, in the tradition of the great baroque keyboard masters whom he so admired; it was to his dear daughter Chouchou, born in 1905, that he dedicated the six simple miniatures of Children’s Corner, a blend of emotion, playfulness and humour. “When one can’t afford to travel, one must make do with the imagination,” he said, commenting on the Estampes, whose heady sonorities and magical evocations refer to the Orient, Spain, and the spirit of France; Debussy was also capable of irony, as in La Plus que lente, composed in 1910 as “café music”. Less well-known, the Pièce pour le Vêtement du blessé was composed for a charity during the First World War devoted to dressing the wounds of soldiers. Marguerite Long described L’Isle joyeuse (1904) as an exuberant, “joyful gust of wind” and “a celebration of rhythm”; it is also a superb exploration of tone-colour and nuance.

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December 2009

Pommier's Debussy selection displays many facets of both the composer and performer. Children's Corner is spirited and the Estampes particularly engaging. The highlight is a wonderfully droll La plus que lente.

Jean-Bernard Pommier plays Debussy

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