Claude Debussy - The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 <br> Bennett Lerner, piano <BR> BRIDGE 9186With this disc, Bennett Lerner embarks upon his survey of Claude Debussy's complete music for piano some 83 separate pieces that mark one of the great pianistic legacies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Included on this first volume are Book II of the Prludes, the Children's Corner suite, and six other pieces, including the recently (2001) discovered Intermde, written in 1880. Bennett Lerner is well known as a performer of new music and has

excellent collection

Masterfully orchestrated

In a Landscape (1948)

Moments Musicaux

he plays the sonata with straightfoward authority and without interpretive exaggerations

These broadcasts

Chopin wrote the delightful Polonaise Brillante calling it “nothing more than a glittering trifle for the salon

but his openness to French and other influences allowed him to forge a more distinctive idiom of his own as he matured

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They try to find implicit music in the worldnoise around us

Souvenir de la Havane (Grande Caprice de Concert)