Debussy - Rameau

Fresh from his hugely acclaimed and multi award winning album Johann Sebastian Bach, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson’s third Deutsche Grammophon recording pairs works by two revolutionary French composers separated by a century and a half: Jean Philippe Rameau and Claude D ebussy. The album Debussy & Rameau alternates music by the two composers, creating an enthralling dialogue between them. Works are dr awn from across both composers’ careers, with the Debussy selection including well known miniatures such as La Fille aux cheveux de lin as well as the less familiar Prelude to La Damoiselle élue arranged for piano solo. Rameau’s works are mainly drawn from his Pièces de clavecin collections of between 1724 and 1741. One of the album’s centrepieces is Ólafsson’s own Rameau arrangement The Arts and the Hours. Ólafsson’s album concludes with a piece that connects the two composers directly: Debussy’s Hommage à Rameau from Images book 1, a moving sarabande written as a tribute from one rule breaking composer to another.

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Format: CD
Artist: Vikingur Olafsson
Release Date: 05 February 2021
Genre: Classical Music
Label: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (IMP)
Distributor: Universal Music