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- 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
Paul Jacobs brings to life the four most important piano works from the first half of Debussy’s career, including three Images, the composer’s earliest works for solo piano. Gramophone described the performances as “imaginative” and “extremely beautiful.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Paul Jacobs, piano
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Engineering and musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.)
Recorded April, 1978, New York
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig (Masterdisk Corp.)
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
Design and art direction: Karen Bernath
Cover illustration: Japanese lacquer painting, collection of Mme. De Tinan, © SPADEM
