Article: RECORDS

Debussy: Images Book II, Preludes Book I, Estampes. Paul Roberts (CRC, CD). Paul Roberts is an all-round Debussyan - pianist, author, lecturer - and from this disc it's clear that his relationship with the music is profound and intimate. All the repertory comes from the first decade of the century and is infused with the "sonorous halo" of sound that was Debussy's declared objective of the time: spaciously realised here, with a seductive sense of line, but also with just enough of the stifling introspection that prompted Carl Ruggles's blissful remark about the composer: "Nothing wrong with him that a few weeks in the open air wouldn't cure". I'm not wild about the engineering of the disc: ...

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