Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2 – review

Pierre-Laurent Aimard(Deutsche Grammophon)Pierre-Laurent Aimard's much-publicised recent claim in an interview with a German newspaper that Debussy is a greater composer than Wagner is by no means original – it was also made in an influential study of 20th-century music first published in France in the 1960s. But presumably it must have drawn attention to his new Debussy recording, which neatly fits both books of piano Preludes on to a single disc. As you'd expect, Aimard's accounts of the 24 ...

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