Debussy: Etudes for Piano / En Blanc et Noir
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Track Listing
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125:18
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154:55
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23:35
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News & Reviews
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Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish Share Story Behind New Album, 'Narrow Sea'
Composer Caroline Shaw's new album, Narrow Sea, featuring Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish's performance of the title piece—five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp, the 19th-century collection of shape-note hymns—is due next Friday, January 22, on Nonesuch. Here, the artists talk with writer Matthew Guerrieri about the album, which also includes Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy. Find out why she tells Guerrieri: "I was telling a friend, half-jokingly, that, in a lot of my music, I’m trying to figure out a way to talk about death and mortality, or think about it."
Nonesuch Records releases its second album from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, on January 22, 2021. The title piece was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish, who perform it on this recording: five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp nineteenth century collection of shape-note hymns. Also on the album is Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy, which she wrote for the ensemble. A video for Part 2 of Narrow Sea can be seen here.
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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.
Credits
MUSICIANS
Etudes for Piano, Books I & II
Paul Jacobs, pianoEn Blanc et Noir
Paul Jacobs, piano I
Gilbert Kalish, piano IIPRODUCTION CREDITS
Etudes for Piano, Books I & II
Engineering and musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.)
Recorded June 1975, New YorkEn Blanc et Noir
Recorded in concert at the Ojai Festival's Bowl in Libbey Park, Ojai, California, June 5, 1982Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig (Masterdisk Corp.)
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
Cover art/portrait of Debussy by Ivan Thiele (1913), courtesy of the Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
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Composed in 1915, Debussy’s piano etudes represent some of his most adventurous and unconventional writing. Gramophone declared that Jacobs's recordings of the pieces “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.
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.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Etudes for Piano, Books I & II
Engineering and musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.)
Recorded June 1975, New York
En Blanc et Noir
Recorded in concert at the Ojai Festival's Bowl in Libbey Park, Ojai, California, June 5, 1982
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig (Masterdisk Corp.)
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
Cover art/portrait of Debussy by Ivan Thiele (1913), courtesy of the Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

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MUSICIANS
Etudes for Piano, Books I & II
Paul Jacobs, piano
En Blanc et Noir
Paul Jacobs, piano I
Gilbert Kalish, piano II