Claude Debussy [1862-1918] occupies a crucial position in the history of the development of musical styles. Trained in the academic French tradition, he broke away from the formalist expectations of ...

Works by Saint-Saëns, Mel Bonis and Sally Beamish’s imaginative reinterpretation of Debussy’s La Mer make for a disparate but rounded programme Three French works make a disparate but rounded ...

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Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...

Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Steven Osborne perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27. Pianist Steven Osborne joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.27, and Jac ...

Ride the waves of La Mer—Debussy’s shimmering portrait of the sea—and then dive into the rich, romantic world of Cécile Chaminade’s Piano Sonata, a rarely heard work full of passion and lyricism. Two ...