Sheila Arnold - Ecoutez! Debussy. Cage. Takemitsu [CD]

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Pianist Sheila Arnold explores the music of Claude Debussy, John Cage and Toru Takemitsu on the 100th anniversary of Debussy's death.

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'Claude Debussy left a profound mark on music history when he dissolved functional harmony under the influence of the music of the Far East. rToru Takemitsu had to distance himself from his own culture in order to listen to Japanese music with the ears of a Western-trained musician u2013 adopting, for instance, the approach of John Cage. He came to realize that Japan's venerable musical tradition had long been highlighting individual notes as complex sonorities in their own right, instead of treating them as part of a series of several notes. rFrom the human need for sound as well as silence, John Cage drew the most extreme conclusions. The concept of a 'beautiful' sound was never static in music history: it has changed over the centuries, and it differs from one culture to another. Western musical aesthetics tend to differentiate between 'noises' and 'notes': the latter feature well-ordered harmonics. The concept of 'dissonance' has also changed throughout different musical periods. What is more, musicians and their audiences have always felt the need to 'savour' a dissonance u2013 to listen to it consciously, to experience it u2013 before it is resolved.'r- Sheila Arnold

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Sheila Arnold's worldwide concert career was launched with outstanding successes at international competitions (the Salzburg Mozart Competition and the Concours Clara Haskil) as well as many scholarships and awards, including the Wiesbaden Mozart Society's Mozart Prize (1995).

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She has played in many of the great concert halls of Europe, including the Bregenz Festival Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Palau de la Mxfasica in Valencia, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Hamburg Music Hall, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Stuttgart Liederhalle and the Dortmund Konzerthaus. She has also toured the Near and Far East and the United States.

Debussy: Images Book I L. 110 - No. 1 Reflets dans l'eau

Debussy: Images Book I L. 110 - No. 2 Hommage xe0 Rameau

Debussy: Images Book I L. 110 - No. 3 Movement

Takemitsu: Piano Distance

Debussy: Preludes Book II L. 123 No. 4 Les Fees sont d'exquises danseuses

Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared Piano - Sonata VIII

Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared Piano - Sonata II

Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared Piano - Sonata VI

Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared Piano - Sonata VII

Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared Piano - Sonata V

Takemitsu: La Pause Ininterrompue (Uninterrupted rests) D'apres un poeme de Shuzo Takiguchi - Quietly and with a cruel reverberation

Debussy: Preludes Book I L. 117 - No. 1 Danseuses de Delphes

Debussy: Preludes Book I L. 117 - No. 2 Voiles

Debussy: Preludes Book I L. 117 - No. 3 Le Vent dans la plaine

Takemitsu: La Pause Ininterrompue (Uninterrupted rests) D'apres un poeme de Shuzo Takiguchi - Slowly, sadly and as if to converse with

Debussy: Preludes Book I L. 117 - No. 7 Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest

Debussy: Preludes Book II L. 123 - No. 10 Canope

Takemitsu: La Pause Ininterrompue (Uninterrupted rests) D'apres un poeme de Shuzo Takiguchi - A song of love

Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared Piano - Third Interlude

Debussy: Preludes Book II L. 123 - No. 12 Feux d'artifice

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