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Nicholas Spice: Debussy’s Mission, 24 October 2019
Debussy: A Painter in Sound
by Stephen Walsh.
Faber, 368 pp., £15.99, March 2018,978 0 571 33016 4 Show More
by Stephen Walsh.
Faber, 368 pp., £15.99, March 2018,
Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography
by François Lesure, translated by Marie Rolf.
Rochester, 478 pp., £40, June 2019,978 1 58046 903 6 Show More
by François Lesure, translated by Marie Rolf.
Rochester, 478 pp., £40, June 2019,
“... movement seems like a gloomy declivity between two sunny outcrops. It’s prefaced by lines from François Villon’s ‘Ballade contre les ennemis de la France’ and is evidently intended as a cry of protest against the anguish and horror of war – perhaps too evidently. Where the outer movements of En blanc et noir communicate an exhilarating ... ”
