Paul Jacobs + Gilbert Kalish
Debussy: Etudes for Piano / En Blanc et Noir

Debussy: Etudes for Piano / En Blanc et Noir cover art

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Track Listing

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1	Etudes for Piano, Book I: Pour les "cinq doigts," d'après M. Czerny	2:48
2	Etudes for Piano, Book I: Pour les tierces	3:35
3	Etudes for Piano, Book I: Pour les quartes	5:49
4	Etudes for Piano, Book I: Pour les sixtes	5:27
5	Etudes for Piano, Book I: Pour les octaves	2:50
6	Etudes for Piano, Book I: Pour les huit doigts	1:17
7	Etudes for Piano, Book II: Pour les degrés chromatiques	1:53
8	Etudes for Piano, Book II: Pour les agréments	5:53
9	Etudes for Piano, Book II: Pour les notes répétées	2:56
10	Etudes for Piano, Book II: Pour les sonorités opposées	6:11
11	Etudes for Piano, Book II: Pour les arpèges composés	4:30
12	Etudes for Piano, Book II: Pour les accords	5:18
13	En blanc et noir (for two pianos): I. Avec emportement	4:17
14	En blanc et noir (for two pianos): II. Lent, Sombre	7:21
15	En blanc et noir (for two pianos): III. Scherzando	4:55

News & Reviews

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

NPR Dubs Paul Jacobs's "Quite Remarkable" Debussy Preludes Essential Listening

Paul Jacobs's 1970s recordings of Debussy's Preludes for Nonesuch have been added to The NPR Classical 50 list of essential recordings. On the show, critic Ted Libbey calls them "quite remarkable" and dubs Jacobs "the gold standard for the piano music of Debussy." Says Libbey of the Preludes: "What you hear is so extraordinary."

About this Album

Composed in 1915, Claude Debussy’s piano etudes represent some of the composer's most adventurous and unconventional writing. Paul Jacobs’s recordings of these pieces garnered international renown upon their initial release; Gramophone declared they “should be heard by everyone.” This digital reissue also features En Blanc et Noir, a piece, from the same year, for two pianos, performed by Jacobs and Gilbert Kalish.