Debussy: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2005)

In BIS' Debussy: Piano Music, Vol. 3, Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa takes us through Claude Debussy's La Boîte a JouJoux, the second book of his Preludes, and three shorter pieces. Debussy's piano music, even "complete" sets of it, is recorded with such frequency that one may wonder what Ogawa might be able to add to the discussion that has not been said before. But when the disc goes in, Ogawa's will be the only voice you hear -- she has an amazing control of her touch and a complete understanding of the variety of sounds ... Read More

In BIS' Debussy: Piano Music, Vol. 3, Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa takes us through Claude Debussy's La Boîte a JouJoux, the second book of his Preludes, and three shorter pieces. Debussy's piano music, even "complete" sets of it, is recorded with such frequency that one may wonder what Ogawa might be able to add to the discussion that has not been said before. But when the disc goes in, Ogawa's will be the only voice you hear -- she has an amazing control of her touch and a complete understanding of the variety of sounds that it can produce, resulting in an approach to Debussy that is natural, bewitching, transparent, and even spectral. In softly focused pieces, such as in Brouillards, one cannot even hear or sense Ogawa's touch; the music radiates forward from the piano as though spontaneously generated and floats in the air. By comparison, the touch rings out La Puerta del Vino with assertiveness -- this appears to be the only recording of this piece among many heard where the Habanera rhythm does... Read Less

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