Lugansky - Debussy, Estampes : Pagodes, La soirée dans Grenade, Jardins sous la pluie

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Estampes (“Prints”), L. 108/100 (1903) Nikolai Lugansky, 2020 From St. Petersburg Philharmonia [0:00] 1. Pagodes. Modérément animé [4:48] 2. La soirée dans Grenade. Mouvement de Habañera [9:21] 3. Jardins sous la pluie. Net et vif “As something of a manifesto of his new piano writing and an anticipation of the Préludes to come, with its poetic titles, Debussy’s triptych was premiered one year after its composition, in 1904, in Paris Salle Erard by his friend Ricardo Vines. ‘Pagodes’ (Pagodas), the first piece, attests the impact on the musician of the discovery of the Javanese gamelans during the Universal Exhibition of 1889. A few years later he wrote to his friend Pierre Loüys that this eastern music conceals all the shades of shadow, some of which do not even have a name, and that he would try to transcribe. No small feat of evocation for a man who had only set foot in Spain for a few hou