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Debussy: Jazz Impressions

Hervé Sellin

Composer
Debussy
Released
2018
Label
Indésens
Forces
Piano
Personnel
Hervé Sellin piano, Yves Henry piano [tracks 6 and 8]

Sellin closes the Debussy programme with Beiderbecke’s “In a Mist”, a 1927 piano piece whose whole-tone colours make it sound like a reply from early jazz to French Impressionism.

That final choice turns the album from a one-way exercise in arranging Debussy into a small historical conversation.

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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsDebussy · classical source works

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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. The Little Shepherd / Le petit berger (Children’s Corner)Children’s Corner, L. 113: V. The Little Shepherd
  2. Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune
  3. The Little Negro / Le petit nègreLe petit nègre, L. 114
  4. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faunePrélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L. 86
  5. Reflets dans l’eau (Images)Images, Book I, L. 110: I. Reflets dans l’eau
  6. Ballet (Petite suite)Petite Suite, L. 65: IV. Ballet
  7. La fille aux cheveux de lin (Préludes)Préludes, Book I, L. 117: VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin
  8. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children’s Corner)Children’s Corner, L. 113: I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
  9. Sarabande (Pour le piano)Pour le piano, L. 95: II. Sarabande
  10. La plus que lenteLa plus que lente, L. 121
  11. In a Mist (Bix Beiderbecke)Non-classical source