Michel Dalberto – Claude Debussy (2015) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Disciple of Vlado Perlemuter and Jean Hubeau, Michel Dalberto has stood out as a master and ardent defender of French music in the course of a thirty-year career. His signature for the Aparté label of a series of recordings devoted to Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, and Franck marks his awaited return.

Each episode will be recorded live and accompanied by a video. This first release, recorded on a Fazioli piano at the Teatro Bibiena on 30 May 2015, in the framework of the Mantua Chamber Music Festival, honours Claude Debussy :

„Two years ago, near Venice, I played pieces by Debussy on a Fazioli piano, and it seemed obvious to me that this piano provided the ideal sonority for this music made of light and shadow. The idea of recording a recital in a beautiful Italian theatre came as a logical continuation. The „Bibiena“ (from the name of its architect, Antonio Bibiena) in Mantua was inaugurated in December 1769 – Mozart gave a concert there a month later. It is, with the San Carlo in Naples, my finest memory of an Italian theatre where I played.“ (Michel Dalberto)

Tracklist:
Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
01. Children’s Corner, L. 113: I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
02. Children’s Corner, L. 113: II. Jimbo’s Lullaby
03. Children’s Corner, L. 113: III. Serenade for the Doll
04. Children’s Corner, L. 113: IV. The Snow Is Dancing
05. Children’s Corner, L. 113: V. The Little Shepherd
06. Children’s Corner, L. 113: VI. Golliwog’s Cake-walk
07. Images, 2e série, L. 111: I. Cloches à travers les feuilles
08. Images, 2e série, L. 111: II. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
09. Images, 2e série, L. 111: III. Poisson d’or
10. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Brouillards (modéré)
11. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Feuilles mortes (lent et mélancolique)
12. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: La Puerta del Vino (mouvement de Habanera)
13. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: “Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses” (rapide et léger)
14. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Bruyères (calme-Doucement expressif)
15. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: “General Lavine”-eccentic (dans le style et le mouvement d’un cake-walk)
16. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: La Terrassedes audiences du claire de lune (lent)
17. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Ondine (scherzando)
18. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Hommage à S. Picwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. (grave)
19. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Canope (très calme et doucement triste)
20. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Les Tierces alternées (modérément animé)
21. Préludes, 2e livre, L. 123: Feux d’artifice (modérément animé)