Claude Debussy

Ernst-Gnter Heinemann (Editor)

Hans-Martin Theopold (Fingering)

Franois Lesure (Preface)

Have you played the Images …? Without undue vanity, I believe that these three pieces can hold their own and will assume a place in the piano literature … to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin … as you like it. Thus wrote Debussy in a letter to his publisher and friend Jacques Durand in 1905. Debussys prophecy was to become true. The pieces have become a fixed part of piano repertoire. Incidentally: for the slow movement Hommage Rameau Debussy, an innovator who was still aware of tradition, was inspired by a performance of Castor et Pollux in 1903.

Images 1re srie

• Reflets dans l’eau
• Piano8difficult
• ABRSM:Piano LRSM (recommended)

• Hommage Rameau
• Piano7difficult
• ABRSM:Piano LRSM (recommended)

• Mouvement
• Piano8difficult
• ABRSM:Piano LRSM (recommended)