Debussy Hommage, Azumi Nishizawa's 2018 release on IBS Classical, marks the 100th anniversary of the composer's death with a handful of his most famous piano works, along with short pieces by Isaac Albéniz, Federico Mompou, Enrique Granados, and Manuel de Falla, which show some of Debussy's influence. The atmospheric moods and shifting tone colors of these pieces are often regarded as aspects of impressionism, a term borrowed from French art of the 19th century and applied to these early 20th century composers with varying ...
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Debussy Hommage, Azumi Nishizawa's 2018 release on IBS Classical, marks the 100th anniversary of the composer's death with a handful of his most famous piano works, along with short pieces by Isaac Albéniz, Federico Mompou, Enrique Granados, and Manuel de Falla, which show some of Debussy's influence. The atmospheric moods and shifting tone colors of these pieces are often regarded as aspects of impressionism, a term borrowed from French art of the 19th century and applied to these early 20th century composers with varying degrees of accuracy (Debussy famously rejected it). Nishizawa plays with sensitivity and delicacy, so she often gets the diaphanous and misty qualities of impressionistic music right, though the spell is sometimes broken by her rather showy virtuosity, which at times suggests considerable physical effort. Even so, Nishizawa makes a smooth transition from Debussy's Spanish-flavored music (La Puerta del Vino and La soirée dans Grenade) to the scene-painting of Albéniz, Granados, and...
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