No music better invokes smudged and slightly blurry landscapes of pastel flowers shimmering in the rain, smoky Parisian cafés, beautiful women and moonlit mystery than that of Claude Debussy. To say ...

Although Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque comprises four movements, the third, Clair de lune, has become by far the most well known. The great French impressionist, Debussy, started to compose this famous ...

La fille aux cheveux de lin or The Girl With the Flaxen Hair is the eighteenth piece from Debussy’s First Book of Preludes and has a two and a half minutes play time. The piece also happens to be one ...

Later in the hour, we hear Debussy's Epigraphes antiques in an arrangement for string orchestra. First, a taste of the original piano music. Martin Jones is at the piano.

Opening today and continuing through June 10, visitors to Smith College Museum of Art can explore the “soundscape” of Paris during the lifetime of the French composer Claude Debussy and discover 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 ...

Esther Birringer’s instincts for colour and nuance work well in Debussy’s music. Her approach to rhythm sometimes proves problematic. In ‘Reflets dans l’eau’ from the first book of Images, for example ...

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 ...

Debussy dedicated his 1908 cycle Children's Corner to his five-year old daughter, writing in his dedication: "To my beloved little Chouchou, with the tender excuses of her father for that which ...

Víkingur Ólafsson is the new superstar of the classical piano. His recent Bach album for Deutsche Grammophon won a string of awards, he directs two music festivals, he’s hosted his own TV show in his ...