Debussy: 12 Etudes; Berg: Sonate Op. 1

Debussy: 12 Etudes; Berg: Sonate Op. 1

Debussy: 12 Etudes; Berg: Sonate Op. 1
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Composer: Alban Berg
Composer: Claude Debussy
Performer: Maurizio Pollini
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1994-02-15
Music Label: Dg Imports
Soundtracks:
  1. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 1) - Pour les (cinq doits) d'apres Monsieur Czerny
  2. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 1) - Pour les tierces
  3. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 1) - Pour les quartes
  4. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 1) - Pour les sixtes
  5. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 1) - Pour les octaves
  6. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 1) - Pour les huit doigts
  7. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 2) - Pour les degres chromatiques
  8. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 2) - Pour les agrements
  9. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 2) - Pour les notes repetees
  10. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 2) - Pour les sonorites opposees
  11. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 2) - Pour les arpeges composes
  12. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (Book 2) - Pour les accords
  13. Sonate Fur Klavier, Op. 1 - Massig bewegt

Music reviews of Debussy: 12 Etudes; Berg: Sonate Op. 1

Music Review: blazingly bright
Rating: 5 Stars

The relevance of Debussy's "Etudes" and the dimension that seems to attract most important pianists is that they were the last statement of "diatonic" music, Debussy knew something was in the air of dodecaphonic 12 Tone thinking but he really had no way, no pathway into utilizing it or developing it. So we have these 12 elegantly rendered "etudes", the genre of "Etude" has found great vigour in recent history with Cage's " Etudes Australes", and Gyorgy Ligeti"Two Books". This Debussy neither looks backwards nor frontways, these are pieces that sum up his life, with a refined sense of complex structure, where these "etudes" reiterate materials only at great expense to the content of the music. They do develop the"etude" as finger study to its utmost as the last one on"oppositions", it is incredibly difficult to keep incessantly throwing yours hands in opposite directions, it is more a physical feet than intellectual. Pollini brings his sensitivity to the modern, all the modernist repertoire he enjoys playing finds itself here,his concept then is that Debussy looked forwards with technical innovation. The"etude" genre seems quite suited to this agenda in that there is not much one can do within the "diatonic" system as well as not really engaging in "tonality" long past the post-romantics, so the "materials" then are texture,timbre,register,density and placement,juxtaposing your materials as you proceed, linear development a richer one, in that the ideas reiterate themselves over time, small segments of time, for Debussy knew that each "etude" could only inhabit a small durational frame to be effective.The "diatonic" ideas here for etude "spends" themselves very quickly, and in most he introduces secondary ideas, some never to return.The "lightness" of touch was also Debussy way, and another favorite is the repeated=note etude. If you have ever heard actual recordings of Debussy at the piano, he had a very light timbral piano. My favorite is the "chromatic" etude, where you have find delicate moving "smears" of lines moving crossing, overlapping each other. The "Fourths" as well almost sounds like a Japanese folk song, has a "mystery" about it, the "First Etude",is a skewed tribute actual sarcasm here to the school of Czerny,and the finger dexterity of vacuous contemplation, still the fingers need to move fast continusously, perhaps some music content would help, as well. I prefer Uchida's interpretations,she brings a little more passion than Pollini's blazingly bright resonance, not overbearing,simply bright.

The Berg Sonata here as well, is a work really overplayed,and it really is not that fascinating a piece,it really does nothing new nor innovative for piano timbre as Webern(his latter "Variations") and Schoenberg(Opus 11, or the "Five Pieces" had done. Hanns Eisler's(the unacknowledged Schoenberg student) "First Sonata", is indeed more interesting.
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Pollini devotes four-fifths of this disc to the 12 etudes of Claude Debussy, and impressively done they are. The remaining piece, which predates the Debussy by a few years, is Alban Berg's powerfully compressed one-movement Piano Sonata Op. 1--which already shows the 23-year-old composer's ability to reconcile the demands of form with the inherently volatile tendencies of an expressionistic musical idiom. Pollini's lean, rhythmically precise reading and hard, bright tone give the piece a remarkable intensity. The 1992 recording is direct and analytic, like the performance. --Ted Libbey

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