Sunday, September 1, 2013

Claude Debussy Masques

This 1929 performance of Debussy's fantastic, innovative and extremely difficult piece, Masques, played  by Lazare Lévy is still  the best example of Debussy playing I've ever heard in my life.   I wish he'd recorded more and especially the French repertoire, many of whose greatest composers he knew and was associated with.   His family suffered enormous hardships under the Nazi occupation, his son dying while fighting with the French resistance.   He lost his teaching position and was not able to regain it after the war.  Which, considering his genius and his fame as a teacher must be one of the most shortsighted of injustices done in that regard.

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