Debussy: ... et le jazz: Preludes for a Quartet

 
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: ... et le jazz: Preludes for a Quartet
Quatuor Debussy

[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 28 February 2025

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A century after his death on 25 March 1918, many Harmonia Mundi artists were eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great 'colourist' and father of modern music.

There was also a wish to honour the composer of Pelléas as one of those creative artists who, long before Louis Armstrong and Bill Evans, had a determining influence on certain harmonic colours of jazz.

Let us therefore salute the initiative of the appropriately named Quatuor Debussy who, with the friendly collaboration of leading jazz personalities, revisited the Préludes in their own way.

Tracks:

1. "C" Influences - Vincent Peirani from La Fille aux cheveux de lin (Livre I/8) and "General Lavine" - excentric (Livre II/6)
- String quartet and accordion

2. Les Sixtièrces alternées - from Les Tièrces alternées (Livre II/11), transcription by Marc Vieillefon
- String quartet

3. Midi, do majeur - Franck Tortiller from Les Tièrces alternées (Livre II/11)
- String quartet and vibraphone

4. Des pas sur la neige - from Des pas sur la neige (Livre I/6), transcription by Alain Brunier
- String quartet

5. À l'ombre de la cathédrale… Jean- Philippe Collard-Neven - from La Cathédrale engloutie (Livre I/10)
- String quartet, piano and double bass

6. Minstrels - from Minstrels (Livre I/12), transcription by Alain Brunier and Marc Vieillefon
- String quartet

7. Danza del vino - from La Puerta del vino (Livre II/3) Franck Tortiller
- String quartet and vibraphone

8. Bruyères - from Bruyères (Livre II/5), transcription by Alain Brunier
- String quartet

9. Bussie's blues - Lionel Belmondo and Jacky Terrasson from Bruyères (Livre II/5), Danseuses de Delphes (Livre I/1), Des pas sur la neige (Livre I/6) and Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir (Livre I/4)
- String quartet and piano

10. La Fille aux cheveux de lin - from La Fille aux cheveux de lin (Livre I/8), transcription by Quatuor Debussy
- String quartet