Debussy’s impressionist masterpiece, his Arabesque No. 1, has been transformed into a completely faithful metal guitar instrumental. A YouTuber calling himself Archaeologist (real name Kyle Schaefer) ...
Young pianist Lucy gave a captivating performance of a Debussy Arabesque, in the finale of Channel 4’s ‘The Piano’ at the Royal Festival Hall. And crowned for delivering the winning performance in ...
Coming in near the end of the Debussy anniversary year, Angela Hewitt’s new disc is proof of that old maxim about keeping the best until last. Hewitt has the knack of bringing this music acutely alive ...
Intermède was only discovered in 2001 in a hand-written copy made by Maurice Dumesnil, a student of Debussy and a Debussy scholar. It is closely related to the Scherzo-Intermezzo from Debussy's 1880 ...
Composer Claude Debussy was not a natural at the piano. At first, he struggled to learn to love the instrument. But as he continued to write piano music, Debussy started trying new things, new sounds.
Claude-Achille Debussy was music’s quietest revolutionary. Most of the great upheavals in the art of music have been noisy. Think of Monteverdi with his clattering stile concitato evoking the sounds ...