Debussy: Études | CD review

Pascal Rogé(Onyx)As his Debussy cycle for Onyx has gone on, it has become increasingly obvious that Pascal Rogé has little time for the common perception of Debussy as an "impressionist" composer, all pastel shades and dewy outlines. His playing is bold, muscular when it needs to be, and above all concerned at all times with formal and textural clarity. The two books of Études, which were completed in 1915, suit that approach better than any of Debussy's other major piano works. What his p...

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