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A Cycle of Fifths: Children's Corner - Claude Debussy
The Children’s Corner dates from 1906-08. It isn’t a collection of pieces for a child to play, but rather, like Schumann’s Kinderscenen, an adult’s affectionate remembrance of the world of childhood.
The set was dedicated to Debussy’s young daughter Claude-Emma (Chouchou) ‘with her father’s…
Posted on August 22, 2012 via A Cycle of Fifths with 9 notes
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Paolo Spagnolo - C. Debussy’s Préludes Livre II: Nº 5 - ‘Bruyères (Heather)’
Posted on July 25, 2011 with 4 notes
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Engloutie
In Brittany the sea has its own voice,
it tolls when it finds itself in the midst of a storm.
A bell sound too and fro, too and fro to try and calm
its own undercurrents , the angry pull of the moon
who long ago sighed out the white capped
swells of hippocampus, the stampede
of water that broke the levees and swallowed up
Ys, so eagerly. The church bells ring:
“Solemn, solemn, no more sleep and solemn,
how good it is to rise today, how good it is
to rise today.”
Posted on January 9, 2010 with 1 note