Cathy Krier
Debussy & Szymanowski
- Type CD
- Label CAvi
- UPC 4260085533794
- Catalog number AVI 8553379
- Release date 06 October 2017
About the album
Masked Impressions
„In this new album, Cathy Krier takes an original step and goes entirely against the grain of her previous programmatic approach. In her two most recent CDs she had juxtaposed the apparently divergent styles of Rameau and Ligeti, or Liszt vs. Berg/Schoenberg, uncovering astounding new connections among them. The current release now takes the opposite path. At first glance, Claude Debussy – the inventor of musical Impressionism – and Karol Szymanowski – often called the ‘Polish Impressionist’ – would seem to have much in common. Both composers even use the same title in French: Masques (masks). Cathy Krier affirms, nevertheless, that she is much more interested in the differences one can observe between these two works written roughly during the same period. Our listening experience is thus enriched thanks to a new, fascinating aesthetical perspective. “ (excerpts from the booklet notes by Clemens Matuschek)
„Krier steers her own path between sentimental and spiky, with a bright, forthright tone and an approach that underlines the music’s depth to Schumann and Brahms“(Boston Globe October 2015)
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11Images Book I L. 110 (1904/05) I. Reflets dans l?Eau
05:43 -
12Images Book I L. 110 (1904/05) II. Hommage à Rameau
07:00 -
13Images Book I L. 110 (1904/05) III. Mouvement
03:25 -
14Images Book II L. 111 (1907) I. Cloches à travers les feuilles
04:02 -
15Images Book II L. 111 (1907) II. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fût
05:20 -
16Images Book II L. 111 (1907) III. Poissons d?or
03:30 -
17Masques L. 105 (1890)
04:39 -
18Masks Op. 34 (1915) I. Shéhérazade
10:21 -
19Masks Op. 34 (1915) II. Tantris le Bouffon
05:53 -
110Masks Op. 34 (1915) III. Sérénade de Don Juan
05:48