Debussy / Baranova: Unfolding Debussy
Debussy / Baranova: Unfolding Debussy
Format: CD
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Artist: Debussy / Baranova
Label: Berlin Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 885470010144
Genre: Classical
Since Marina Baranova first played Clair de Lune as an eager nine-year-old a question had stayed with her: Was there another side to Debussy's music, one influenced by his turbulent private life and tempestuous relationships? "When you think of the great impressionist painters, you think of light, and hope, and love," she says. "But Debussy adored the darkness of Baudelaire, and was heavily influenced by Wagner. The titles he gave his pieces also hint at hidden meanings, so I thought it would be interesting to explore this 'shadow' side and my feelings towards it." Now Marina Baranova's album Unfolding Debussy will be released to mark the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Claude Debussy's death in March 2018. Despite being "absolutely in love" with Debussy, Baranova had also grown tired of playing his work in the common, classical way. Coming back to his music, she resolved to discover new ways of playing while exploring this darkness, and set about deconstructing some of his best loved pieces. It was here she had a vision, and the concept of "unfolding" his work took shape. To emulate the richness of Debussy's original compositions, Baranova sought a broader palette and different textures. "Every instrument has it's own color," she says, and so a number of different pianos and keyboards were employed to help to weave her magic. An Una Corda, a Fender Rhodes, midi keyboards and a C. Bechstein grand piano all feature, as do a number of delays and arpeggiators; anything to match the mood and the colours she could see in her head. Unusually for a classical pianist, she took it upon herself to both write and sing lyrics for various tracks, something she claims "wasn't a decision, but an intuition. At the start, this wasn't my intention, but the words just came."
Tracks:
1.1 Prologue: Moonlight
1.2 Clair de Lune
1.3 Voiles
1.4 The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
1.5 Footsteps in the Snow
1.6 The Snow Is Dancing
1.7 Gradus Ad Parnassum
1.8 Passepied
1.9 Beauty
1.10 Alternating Thirds
1.11 Clair de Solenne
