| All Artists: Debussy, Van Immerseel Title: Claude Debussy: Préludes & Images - Jos van Immerseel, Piano Erard 1897 Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Channel Classics Nl Release Date: 8/19/1993 Album Type: Import Genre: Classical Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 723385489221 |
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 | Debussy, Van Immerseel Claude Debussy: Préludes & Images - Jos van Immerseel, Piano Erard 1897 Genre: Classical Debussy's music on a fortepiano? No, but the 1897 Erard used in this recording, a modern piano in most respects, has some significant differences from the Steinways and similar instruments most concert pianists play today.... more » |
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Amazon.com Debussy's music on a fortepiano? No, but the 1897 Erard used in this recording, a modern piano in most respects, has some significant differences from the Steinways and similar instruments most concert pianists play today. Jos Van Immerseel explains them clearly in his program notes, and even more clearly in his deliciously colorful performances. Debussy's subtle colorations come to life on this old instrument so lovingly played by an admirer, and the results do sound significantly different from other recordings of the music. This CD is highly recommended to Debussy lovers, even though it lacks two things: adequate playing time (only 54:00), and the sequels we would like to hear. --Leslie Gerber Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThe Importance of Being HIPP... Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 11/15/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "The Importance of Being HIPP...
Historically Informed Performance Practices (HIPP) seem to be regaining the interest of aficionados as HIPP artists have refurbished old instruments, built new instruments modelled on the old, and developed better techniques of HIPP instrumental articulation and recording--since the earlier days of HIPP in the 1980s when the poor sounds of both instruments and recordings were off-putting to many would-be enthusiasts. One of the most innovative and talented current HIPP artists is Belgian Jos van Immerseel who found an immaculately preserved 1897 Érard baby grand with a sostenuto effect pedal mechanism which well corresponds the execution requirements of Debussy's morceaux wherein singing treble lines are featured over sustained bass notes. Van Immerseel implements the Érard with a very light `finger-based' technique achieving moderate HIPP playing times when compared (for example) to the famous Prélude set of modernistic recordings issued by Krystian Zimerman. The HIPP realizations of van Immerseel and others on these remarkable 19th Century instruments reveal a `time regained' sound-world of half-tints and tertiary colours bathed in a limpid luminosity of diffused clarity conjuring imagery of both the perversely odd Fin de Siècle and the benignly beauteous Belle Époque. Experience: César Franck: Harmonium 1850 Érard piano & 1865 Alexandre harmonium Chopin: Nocturnes 1845 Broadwood piano Bruckner: Piano Works 1835 Bösendorfer pianoforte Hyacinthe Jadin: Sonates pour pianoforte 1830 Schott pianoforte Karg-Elert: Works for Harmonium, Vol. 1 1913 Mustel harmonium Lefebure-Wely:Suites for Harmonicorde 1880 Debain harmonicorde Pièces per harmonium 1891 Mustel harmonium Chopin: Complete Mazurkas II 1855 Érard piano Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120; Vier ernste Gesänge. Op. 121 (arr. for piano) 1901 Steinway piano & 1905 Oehler clarinet Vierne: Organ Symphonies Complete 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ ." |
