amusiclibrary:

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…

Paolo Spagnolo - C. Debussy’s Préludes Livre II: Nº 5 - ‘Bruyères (Heather)’

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.”