Claude Debussy ‒ Images (Complete)

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918), Images I L105 & Images II L105 (1903 & 1907) Performed by Pascal Rogé 00:00 - No. 1 Reflets dans l’eau 05:02 - No. 2 Hommage à Rameau 11:57 - No. 3 Mouvement 15:16 - No. 4 Cloches à travers les feuilles 20:08 - No. 5 Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut 25:47 - No. 6 Poissons d’or The six Images were in Debussy’s mind in some form as early as December 1901, when he played versions of two of them (Reflets dans l’eau and Mouvement) to the pianist Ricardo Viñes, but the complete list of titles was not fixed until July 1903, when he sent these to the publisher Fromont. He had just completed the Estampes, and the Images, the first book of which was published in October 1905, can be heard as a development along the same colouristic lines, following earlier intimations in various pieces by Chabrier and in Ravel’s Jeux d’eau. The technique has been called one of illusion—what you see on the printed page is of