Want French piano music? Go to Iceland
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The place to go these days to hear French piano music is Iceland. The best-selling, innovative Bach interpreter VÃkingur Ólafsson has taken a pair of French composers two centuries apart and effectively melded their music into one by the simple method of interleaving short pieces across a whole album.
The outcome is astonishing in respect of both Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) and Claude Debussy (1862-1918), revealing unsuspected aspects in both masters…
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